Green Line Association and the International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) with the support of the Middle East Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation are organizing a regional workshop entitled:
"Food Sovereignty vs. Free Trade - Towards an Alternative Multilateral Agricultural Governance Framework"
to take place at the Crowne Palza Hotel in Beirut from 5-6 December 2008.
The main objectives of the workshop are to emphasize the importance of
bringing the issues of food sovereignty and security into the forefront
of the political discussion and planning for the region and to discuss
the existing potentials for socially and environmentally responsible
agricultural trade regimes arising from the failure of the free market
as acknowledge by its protagonists. The workshop aims additionally at
proposing the main requirements for an alternative international
governance system for agriculture and food.
The workshop will include the launching of the Arabic version of the
"Slow Trade - Sound Farming: A Multilateral Framework for Sustainable
Markets in Agriculture". A publication developed by the Heinrich
Böll Foundation and MISEREOR.
Conference languages are Arabic, English
and French, simultaneous translation available.
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