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Brief report of Media workshop on Food Sovereignty
Held on July 5th, 2011 at Kolkata Press Club
Background of the workshop
Food Sovereignty Network South Asia (FSNSA) is actively
working in the field of promotion of Food sovereignty and
right to food in various South Asian countries. Food
sovereignty is closely associated with good governance, and
full realization of human rights, for which it is
fundamental to sensitize larger Civil Society including
media persons about various aspects of existing
international human rights instruments, for example, right
to food, Voluntary Guidelines on Right to Food, Guidelines
adopted in International Conference on Agrarian Reform and
Rural development, MDG 1 etc. All these instruments are
directly linked with right to land and livelihoods too,
which is becoming increasingly important for poor actors in
our South Asian countries.
There are different policies and programmes to address
poverty and hunger scenario in various South Asian
countries. We believe it is possible to identify several
good practices and policies from among these nations and it
is important to circulate/share those experiences with other
countries, for possible replication of such good practices,
which will strengthen basic pillars of our democracy. It is
needless to mention here that media can play a vital role
regarding sharing such experiences across the countries and
advocating for more pro-people and pro-poor policy reforms.
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