World
Food
Summit

13-17 November 1996 - Rome, Italy

REPORT OF THE
REGIONAL NGO CONSULTATION FOR LATIN AMERICA
AND THE CARIBBEAN ON THE WORLD FOOD SUMMIT

Asunción, Paraguay, 30 June - 1 July 1996

Report of the Regional NGO Consultation for
Latin America and the Caribbean on the World Food Summit
Asunción, Paraguay, 30 June - 1 July 1996

1. A Consultation gathering a broad spectrum of civil society organizations in preparation for the World Food Summit took place in Asunción, Paraguay, on 30 June and 1 July 1996, just prior to the FAO Regional Conference. It was jointly organised by the 'Centro de Educación, Capacitación y Tecnología Campesina' (CECTEC) of Paraguay and FAO, in consultation with the major NGO networks of the Latin American region.

2. One hundred and two participants attended the Consultation from 16 countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region, representing a wide range of organizations and constituencies. These encompassed farmers associations, development support NGOs operating in both the rural and urban sectors, NGOs working primarily with women, academic, research and religious institutions, professional and private sector associations. The networks represented were Movimiento Agroecológico de América Latina (MAELA), Red Interamericana de Agricultura y Democracia (RIAD), Via Campesina, Red de Instituciones Vinculadas a la Capacitación en Economía y Políticas Agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe (RED-CAPA), Red Rural ONG Paraguay, Global Network on Food Security, Popular Coalition to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty.

3. The Consultation was opened with a welcoming address by the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Paraguay, H.E. Juan Alfonso Borgognon. Mr. S. de Melo Araujo, Assistant Director-General/FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Ms. K. Killingsworth, Secretary-General of the World Food Summit, made introductory statements highlighting the crucial role of agriculture in poverty alleviation and the importance of the Consultation in the preparatory process of the World Food Summit.

4. Brief presentations were made about food security issues and perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean, the role of women in food security in the region, the results of the NGO Consultations for the Near East, Africa, Europe, and Asia. One session was devoted to perspectives on food security of civil society organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on their earlier contributions on food security issues through various events in 1995 and 1996, gathered in a special issue of MAELA's "Hoja a Hoja". The remaining one day and a half was devoted to working group sessions.

5. The results of this work, presented in a plenary session at the end of the second day, included a Declaration in Defence of Food Security, a report providing detailed remarks on the draft policy statement and plan of action of the World Food Summit, a plan of action for civil society organizations, a motion in support of the Latin American peasants' struggle for land, and a motion condemning the embargo against Cuba.

6. Both the Declaration in Defence of Food Security and the comments on the draft Plan of Action of the World Food Summit were presented to the technical committee and the plenary session of the Regional Conference, which expressed great interest and appreciation of the Consultation's work.

Appendix 1

REGIONAL NGO CONSULTATION FOR
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
ON THE WORLD FOOD SUMMIT

Asunción, Paraguay, 30 June - 1 July 19961

CONSULTATION PROGRAMME

SUNDAY 30 JUNE

09.30 hours Introduction

- Mr. Severino De Melo Araujo, Assistant Director General and Regional Representative of FAO for Latin America and the

Caribbean Welcome address

- Ing. Juan Alfonso Borgognon, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock

The World Food Summit

- Ms Kay Killingsworth, Secretary General

Consultation on the World Food Summit by NGOs in Latin America and the Caribbean

- Mr. Andrés Wehrle, Director of CECTEC

10.15 hours Coffee Break

10.45 hours Programme of the Consultation

- Mr. Andrés Wehrle

11.15 hours Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean

- Mr. A. Schejtman, Policy Assistance Division, FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

11.45 hours The role of Women in Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean

- Ms Vilma Aray, FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

12.00 hours Results of NGO Consultations in the Near East, Africa, Europe and Asia

- Ms Maria Grazia Quieti, World Food Summit Secretariat

12.15 hours NGO Perspectives on Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean

- Mr. Flavio Valente.

13.00 hours Lunch

14.30 hours Organization of Working Groups

- Mr. Andrés Wehrle, Director CECTEC

15.00 hours Working Groups

- Political, social and economic conditions

- Access to food

- Agricultural and rural sustainable development

- Trade

- Investment

- Drafting committee on Declaration

- Drafting committee on Plan of Action

17.30 hours Coffee break

18.00 hours Plenary Meeting

MONDAY 1 JULY

08.30 hours Working groups

10.30 hours Coffee break

11.00 hours Working groups

13.00 hours Lunch

14.30 hours Report of the Working groups

17.30 hours Coffee break

18.00 hours Plenary Meeting for approval of NGO's Declaration

Appendix 2

DECLARATION IN DEFENCE OF FOOD SECURITY

Gathered in Asunción, Paraguay, from 30 June to 1 July 1996, over one hundred representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Social Movements, People’s Organizations and other organizations of civil society of Latin America and the Caribbean, after having analysed the situation of Food Security of the region and the Basic Document of the World Food Summit, submit the following considerations to the government representatives and technical officers gathered at the Twenty-fourth FAO Regional Conference.

Today, everyone is in favour of Food Security. However, the understanding and commitments to it are very different and, on many occasions, totally opposed. We have specific principles as a guideline for action, without which we consider that there cannot be a real and lasting Food Security for all:

1. Food Security is a fundamental right of all citizens and a condition of sovereignty that goes beyond the logic of economic policies or of political contingencies.

2. Food Security must be compatible with social, cultural and gender equity, in the access and distribution of food at all levels.

3. Nutritional security is an inseparable part of Food Security. Access by people to food is not sufficient. Concern for its quality is also fundamental.

4. Food Security must be compatible with the long-term sustainability of available resources. It must be based on an agriculture that preserves biodiversity and natural resources.

5. In order to obtain and maintain Food Security governments and civil society do share responsibilities. There cannot be Food Security without the participation of society and without governments assuming their responsibility towards it.

Aware that the population at risk of food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean is, on average, estimated at 43% as poor and at 21% as extremely poor and

Considering that:

1. Sustainable Food Security and nutritional welfare must be recognised as a human right, linked to the right to life, as a right to food in adequate quantity and quality, respecting food habits; sufficient to guarantee a healthy life and to become established in the national and international legislation by means of a Convention guaranteed by the International Tribunal of Justice. The responsibility of governments in guaranteeing Food Security to all citizens must be recognised as the basis, strategy and objective of sustainable development with equity for men, women and children; it must be fulfilled beyond commercial regulations of the market and of structural adjustment policies.

2. Food and nutrition security contains the following elements: sufficient and stable availability of food supplies at global and local levels; timely and permanent access by all persons to the food they need, both in quantity and quality; adequate consumption and biologic use of the same, also ensuring access to basic sanitary and health services, and, above all, the political will of the governments to achieve it.

3. In Latin America and the Caribbean, food and nutrition insecurity is mainly connected with the capacity of people to gain material or economic access to the food they need, and to adequately utilise it to lead a healthy life, as well as the capacity to produce food and/or exchange it by means of access to production means. In most of the countries there are permanent or transitory food availability problems. This situation is aggravated by the low levels of development (education, health and economic conditions) and the organizational weakness of family producers.

4. The fundamental role of women as providers of Food Security at the family and community level must be recognised; their contribution to the reproduction of production systems and of the family, while they are the most affected by nutritional deficit. Food policies must give preferential attention to women and provide them with economic resources that will strengthen their participation in the economy, such as access to credit, to land, to technology and to education.

5. Recent work experience by diverse institutions shows that the problem of food insecurity due to deficiencies occurs particularly at the level of well-defined socio-economic groups, such as small peasant producers, seasonal rural labourers, families living in slums and marginal suburban areas, artisanal fishermen, indigenous populations, street vendors, households at risk and displaced populations, women being the most affected.

6. In addition to diseases caused by deficiencies, which are a consequence of insufficient food such as protein-energy malnutrition and lack of micronutrients, food insecurity is associated with food-transmissible diseases such as food toxic infections, food contamination by heavy metals, agrotoxic products and inadequate presence of hormones, additives and colorants. This situation is the direct or indirect cause of thousands of deaths every day in our region, especially of women, children and the elderly.

7. Food insecurity in our continent also expresses itself in the progressive increase of diseases and of mortality derived from pathologies associated with unbalanced diets and inadequate food habits linked to processes of rapid urbanisation, globalization of food practices, food industrialisation, etc. In several countries of our region, cardiovascular diseases (high blood pressure, infarct of the myocardium, vascular accidents, etc.),diabetes, obesity, etc., become a public health problem, strongly affecting the poorer segments of the population that have no access to information and to basic health services, and many of them not even to a healthy lifestyle.

8. There will be no Food Security without the participation of civil society, essentially of small producers and urban dwellers, and without governments assuming their responsibility for it. Equally, there will be no Food Security without the participation in its achievement of rural youth organizations, the farmers of tomorrow.

9. The causes of food insecurity are interrelated and respond to multiple disciplines of analysis; solutions involve all actors of society and the international community. Food insecurity is linked to processes inherent in each country.

10. Food Security is at risk at world level, especially in third world countries, for a series of causes or for several of them simultaneously. Among them, unfair distribution of land, exhaustion of fundamental soil and water productive resources, climatic catastrophes and plagues, environmental degradation caused by overexploitation of soils, climatic changes, salinization of soils, erosion, use of contaminating technologies, social catastrophes that disarticulate political and productive organizations; food production policies that privilege external consumption; insufficiency and defects of food distribution systems; economic models and national development plans that neglect the development, sustainability and importance of agriculture.

11. External restrictions to trade, subsidies to production and marketing in the developed countries, limitations in the access to technology and communications, unfavourable terms of exchange, are factors that aggravate poverty and food insecurity.

12. Actions implemented up to now regarding the problem of food insecurity have been insufficient. Very few countries have Food Security strategies. There is a lack of mechanisms and actions that involve all the relevant sectors, as well as all the actors of society and of the international community.

13. Unbalanced emphasis on large-scale agriculture with mega development projects in areas of high potential exclusively brings about short-term benefits and damages the ecosystems. There is need for sustainable alternatives to agricultural modernisation that will promote diversified, holistic production systems, with a rational use of chemical inputs.

14. The recognition of the rights of rural producers, the appreciation of indigenous knowledge, the conservation and use of genetic resources, the support to the respect for ancestral ownership of knowledge in the management and use of genetic resources, as well as the right to self-determination of rural communities for the management of the same in accordance with the Plan of Action entitled “Leipzig Commitment to Biodiversity in Agriculture” emanated from the meeting of 160 people’s organizations in Leipzig, Fourth International Conference on Plant Genetic Resources.

15. The problem of population increases at a faster rate than the growth of food production is a reflection of imbalances between population densities and the capacity of economies and of local environments to promote adequate lifestyles. Experience shows that where a reduction of poverty occurs and where the status and rights of women are promoted through educational and employment opportunities, a reduction of population growth rates ensues.

16. The growing food insecurity in our countries due to reduction of world reserves, the raising international prices and the climatic problems in diverse regions of the world, should not be a reason for junctural and short-term decision-making. The search for viable, effective and durable alternatives supposes a long-term horizon and a structural and strategic consideration of the food problem. The above does not imply that alternatives of an emergent nature and of immediate application should not be proposed and promoted.

17. Food production and availability is not opposed to the reversion of environmental degradation nor to the restoration and sustainable management of food systems.

18. The rural sector cannot be compared with the rest of the sectors of the economy (the industrial and services sectors), and therefore it cannot be forced and submitted to fulfil one role only, under economicist and monetarist conceptions. Agriculture and other rural activities, besides economic functions and objectives, fulfil a variety of functions and objectives which are useful to the economy and to society as a whole. Among them the following are highlighted: preserve the cultural wealth and pluriethnic diversity of societies, preserve biodiversity, sustainably restore and manage the natural resources of the rural world, generate self-employment and self-sustainability, maintain the occupation of rural spaces providing stability and management to the countryside-city flows and preventing the emergence of conflicts due to occupation of empty spaces.

19. The construction of viable alternatives supposes a systemic approach from production up to access to food, from macroeconomic policies up to sectoral policies, from rural to urban, from economic to environmental and cultural, from the small family agricultural unit up to the agroprocessing and distribution enterprise, from local up to global, passing through national and regional.

20. The search for alternatives towards sustainable Food Security supposes the abandonment of fatalism, impotence, false oppositions and exclusions, ideologizations and fetishisms. It must be based on the real conditions of consumers and producers of food.

21. The fight against drugs, as has been occurring up to now, cannot and will not eradicate the problems of violence and corruption, and has already been seen, has further aggravated the problem of Food Security.

We propose:

I. To guarantee the political, social and economic conditions most conducive to food for all, which can only be achieved through an equitable participation of women and men.

1. The right to food for all, the right to the development of peasant and indigenous agriculture and the obligation of nations to procure their food are rights and obligations that must be guaranteed by national governments, regional blocks and the world community. Agreement 169 of the Interlnational Labour Organization (ILO) and the draft Declaration of the United Nations on the Rights of Indigenous Populations and also the rights of women farmers, true guardians and creators of agricultural biodiversity, must be ratified.

2. The free market or the State on their own have not guaranteed nor will guarantee the Food Security of nations and of individuals. Sufficient and sustainable production, efficient and timely distribution, equitable and adequate access, and security on food quality, can only be guaranteed by an appropriate and differential distribution of functions and responsibilities between the State, society and the market. To attain it, ethical bases and a social concertation with the active and democratic participation of society and the formulation and implementation of public policies jointly by government bodies and social entities are required.

3. Food Security must be centred on people. It is necessary to implement food production and distribution systems with the participation of the population itself. National governments must ensure that each urban or rural household has access to the means to cover their basic food needs. To ensure this access, governments must promote an equitable distribution of production means, and assure a sufficient income for each family to cover their nutritional requirements.

4. The objective of Food Security must be incorporated in official development plans. For this, a necessary coherence must be established between short, medium and long term macroeconomic policies, social policies and the role of the State as facilitator of civil action.

5. National governments must adopt a National Food Security Policy which must become one of the articulating axes of a social development strategy that reverts exclusion and globalizes citizenship through the democratisation of land and of incomes. This requires the articulation of new agrarian reform schemes, with an equitable access to land and to the diverse natural resources; and rural development policies based on family, community and associative production; promotion of sustainable agricultural systems; incentive to research aimed at the establishment of adequate systems for small family production; promotion of basic food self-sufficiency; food supply at national level and for urban suburbs; generation of productive employment to ensure sufficient income; food assistance to vulnerable groups; food quality control; promotion of healthy feeding practices and an equitable family distribution; the right to active and organized people’s participation at all decision levels, management and monitoring of the Food Security System.

6. A socioeconomic and political framework adapted to a sustainable rural development plan is indispensable to implement a Food Security Policy. The guidelines for this development plan are: it should be socially just and economically and ecologically sustainable. The fulfilment and integration of these principles are based on the following objectives: to ensure a healthy environment for all; preserve natural resources; protect and preserve the genetic patrimony and biodiversity; develop ecological agriculture; strengthen peasant and indigenous production; develop an associative and cooperative economy; integrate social justice and equity; integrate cultural sensitivity; develop a holistic approach towards science; integrate appropriate social and biological technologies and develop the human potential at its utmost.

7. A sustainable Food Security system for all cannot be created in Latin America without reorienting the framework of the neoliberal macroeconomic policies which have been in force in the past and without going through an effective democratisation of the State and expansion of the participation and power of the civil society. In addition, Food Security will only be rhetoric and good intentions, if it does not go through a deep reorientation within the global and regional framework of the policies stemming from the agricultural agreements of the GATT/WTO, policies of the OECD, IMF, WB, IDB, NAFTA and Mercosur, amongst others.

8. International funding agencies and national governments cannot allow adjustment and reform programmes to endanger access to food, adequate nutrition, water supply and appropriate sanitary systems. The organization of Security systems, directed towards the most vulnerable social groups should always be present, beginning with the first phases of the adjustment and structural reform programmes. All adjustment policies should protect the universal and free access to education, training and health.

II. Ensure that policies and institutions contribute to improving access by all to nutritionally adequate and safe food.

9. Since access to food in a market economy depends on the distribution of income and on purchasing power and since the market on its own promotes income concentration, increase in unemployment and reduction in purchasing power of salaries, it is indispensable to create explicit and deliberate policies for a more equitable distribution of income, health (promoting breastfeeding) and education.

10. Eradicate from the relationships among governments, the practice of employing economic embargo measures, blockage and other forms of violence, such as corruption and narcotraffic, which adversely affect the rights of populations to Food Security.

11. Nutritional quality, the origin and conditions for ecological food production should be guaranteed by a regulation and certification based on laws jointly established by the State and the organizations of civil society. This will lead to the promotion of education and to awareness regarding the importance of quality of food for consumers.

12. Adequate nutrition, sanitation and water supply should be among the main indicators of development. All integrated development programmes should include nutrition and food security components which should help overcome the deficit of calories and micronutrients. The intensification in nutrition education should lead to improved health and to saving lives.

III. Meeting transitory and urgent food requirements without hampering development and the capacity of the productive systems to satisfy future food requirements.

13. The problem of food availability in the short term should not lead to new forms of “green revolution”. It is necessary to search for an agriculture that protects the environment, strengthens family agriculture and food quality.

14. In order to guarantee adequate food and nutrition, it is recommended that the cost of a basic food basket should not exceed 1/3 of the family income.

15. It is recommended that national governments and food donor agencies channel the major part of food aid through the NGOs. Food aid should correspond to situations of emergency or to projects directed towards populations suffering from food insecurity. This should include the greatest possible amount of local and regional food purchases, the promotion of production and consumption of traditional products with high nutritional or cultural components (quina, tandi, kañicua, etc.) and the articulation of food aid measures with financial aid. It is indispensable to create a new code of conduct for international food distribution mechanisms.

16. Governments should abstain from taking measures affecting Food Security of other countries. In addition, food security should never be used as a political weapon neither within countries nor among nations.

17. It is indispensable to differentiate and regulate the use of food donations and to institutionalise management, distribution and control organisms with an important participation of civil society.

IV. To ensure that food, agricultural and rural development policies favour stable and sufficient food supply at the household, national and global level, and to promote sustainable agricultural and rural development (SARD).

18. The rural development model should be socially just, economically sustainable, ecologically stable and respectful of different cultures.

19. The State, society and market have to recognise and reappraise the multispecific contribution made by agriculture and by farmers and should remunerate the multiple production of goods and services. This can be carried out in the following ways: cost internalisation, remunerative prices to cover costs and obtaining just surpluses, subsidies and public investments.

20. In accordance with the previous point, it is mandatory for the States, for urban societies and global communities to reappraise and strengthen peasant and indigenous agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean, without excluding other forms of production of food compatible with it and its sustainability. This means a set of reforms to be incorporated into basic laws which would guarantee equitable access to land, water and natural and economic resources as well as governments' obligations to establish rural development policies.

21. Specific legal and governmental frameworks should be established to facilitate and promote forms of economic organization of small producers and rural society; specifically the creation of financial systems for the people and of market systems for producers.

22. Promote the creation of rural development laws in the countries to provide the conditions and necessary resources for achieving balanced and sustainable rural development, highlighted amongst which are: equitable access to land, the creation of financial and marketing systems, research, training, education and extension; the building up of service infrastructures for production and the establishment of multiannual programmes.

23. Guarantee the effective participation of civil society in the planning and implementation of sustainable rural development programmes.

24. The nations and the global community should establish differential public policies in order to guarantee sustainable Food Security for all. No aid-oriented programme can replace the obligation of the States to guarantee the establishment, sustainability, promotion and assistance to the sustainable Food Security systems for present and future generations.

25. FAO and national governments should give a new impulse to agrarian reform policies, guaranteeing access to productive resources. Land ownership should be based on the rights of all peasants, guaranteeing equal access for women. Education, economic incentives and legislation should promote preventive mechanisms against land concentration.

26. The States should eradicate repression and violence to put an end to land conflicts by creating concrete mechanisms which include the participation of interested parties.

V. Ensure that food and agricultural trade policies favour Food Security.

27. Food Security should be given higher priority than commercial or free trade benefits. The market on its own cannot solve food security problems. The concentration of power within the domestic and international markets in the hands of a small number of transnational corporations affects small rural producers. The States and inter-governmental organizations should establish regulations and trade policies geared towards the conditions and specific needs of small producers and their organizations.

28. Food cannot be considered as a simple merchandise and access cannot be solely for certain parts of the population considered economically viable. For this, the principle of comparative advantage in food production can only operate in a subordinate way to the local and national Food Security principle. Said principle cannot operate in an absolute, mechanical and non-critical manner. Food belongs to society and humanity and should be made accessible to all, remunerating justly those participating in production, storage, transformation, conservation, distribution and associated services (funding, research, marketing, etc.).

29. The production of mono crops places peasant producers in a most vulnerable situation. The diversification of production is a potential resource of small producers which should be stimulated since it promotes Food Security locally.

30. In view of the intrinsic uncertainty of agriculture and the volatility and instability of international agricultural markets, a new marketing system, which is just and which should stabilise markets, should be created, not only in a global sense, but also at the national and local levels. The creation of networks envisaging local, national and regional food supplies should be promoted in order to reorganise the global supply system to cover periods of food crises. It is not morally acceptable to use the international trade of agricultural commodities as a food weapon to the detriment of people involved in said trade to satisfy part of the requirements of Food Security.

31. Governments should use marketing policy measures which promote Food Security and eliminate the negative effects of trade liberalisation.

32. The World Trade Organization should recognise that trade of agricultural commodities between the North and South is unjust; while the South exports secondary foodstuffs, the North exports essential products. The global trade agreements (GATT-WTO) reflect the interests of the corporations pertaining to the European Union and the United States, their main beneficiaries and adversely affect the low-income food-deficit countries. The WTO should eliminate competition stemming from subsidised exports in the North.

33. The WTO and its Member States should, before the Meeting of Ministers to be held in December in Singapore, fulfil their commitment to compensate the low-income food-deficit countries in view of the increase in prices, by taking steps including forecasting methodologies, assistance towards domestic and regional food production, trade measures and food aid. The role of inter-governmental organisms geared towards the defence, promotion and guarantee of Food Security, in face of the preeminence of international financial organisms (IFO) should be strengthened.

34. Every social sector should be represented in the bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations, especially small peasant producers, indigenous populations and their organizations.

35. Revise regional and global trade agreements (such as the FTA, Mercosur, Andean Pact, Central American Common Market, etc.) so as to include measures promoting Food Security (Compensation Funds, negotiation of the opening terms), the revision of food aid policies, eliminating any sort of conditionality, embargo or blockage due to political reasons.

VI. Promote investments in sustainable agricultural, forestry and fisheries production and post-production development, and in supporting research, infrastructure and services.

36. International investment is being directed towards supporting adjustment programmes and structural reforms, to the detriment of investments in agriculture, food, employment, education and health. Small producers have been affected more than ever by the changes made in funding strategies and by the absence of financial resources to improve production and increase competitiveness.

37. International financial organizations, national governments and the private sector in each country should promote changes in investment policies in order to make rural development a priority and in particular, promote the production innovations of small producers to ensure productivity increases.

38. FAO should adopt, disseminate and promote the application of an ethic code of conduct to guarantee the prevalence of an equal treatment to small producers and family agriculture, in addition to other types of producers, which would ensure uniform sustainability criteria for the rural population.

39. FAO should implement projects including its commitment to this code, as has been done in the past in the cases of afforestation and reforestation.

40. National governments and inter-governmental organizations should focus their support on training of small producers at the household, community and associative levels. NGOs should continue to collaborate in this process. Training should facilitate the incorporation of adequate technologies and the managerial capacity of the small and medium rural

enterprises. Strengthening women's role through a more ample access to productive resources and income, together with a more important participation in the decision-making process, are indispensable.

41. The international financial institutions (World Bank, IFAD and the Regional Development Banks) should promote investments benefiting small rural and urban producers and workers, which would facilitate the participation of women on a basis of equal opportunities and ensure capital and technical assistance for new credit schemes. Those who utilise them should be involved in the decision-making process, from their design to their implementation.

42. FAO, CGIAR and national governments should reform and reorient policies and systems concerning research, training and rural extension geared towards ecological agriculture, so as to incorporate the small producers into sustainable agricultural development systems, adapted to their reality and local cultures.

43. Governments should guarantee the existence of financial, technical and educational resources to support local production, storage, conservation and distribution systems (including market data, training, viable technologies, transport, storage, processing and postharvest management).

44. FAO, national governments and civil society organizations working on plant and animal genetic resources should guarantee access to local and exotic varieties which are resistant to plagues and diseases and adverse climatic conditions, as a patrimony to humanity and efforts should be made to prevent biotechnology turning into a “new green revolution”, which will further deteriorate peasants' genetic resources. In addition, it is necessary to regulate the use of biotechnology, in view of its impact on sustainable agriculture and health.

VII. Participate in the implementation and monitoring of the Plan of Action of the World Food Summit.

45. Communication and consultation mechanisms should be established among governments, civil society organizations and inter-governmental institutions. These mechanisms should especially consider the participation of NGOs in the decision-making process concerning structural adjustment programmes.

46. Promote the active participation of civil society in the process of preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Food Security Programmes and Projects. Thus, it should be ensured that producer, consumer and local community organizations are duly represented during the planning stage to achieve Food Security, by employing the model of the National Food Security Councils.

47. Formulate and implement Food Security activities in collaboration with the social actors, placing emphasis on the target population groups, through decentralisation and deconcentration of decision-making at different levels.

48. Specially promote strategies concerning education, training, research and the adoption of technologies and social communication, which would contribute towards raising self-management capabilities of men, women and communities at greater risk.

49. National governments should include NGOs, community, peasant, indigenous and women organizations in the respective inter-ministerial committees and in the delegations attending regional and international conferences.

50. Recognise and strengthen social organizations and promote their participation at different levels of policy decision-making.

51. We reconfirm our will to work in favour of a Latin American and Caribbean Food Security movement and disseminate its basic principles of solidarity, participation and decentralisation, as well as our will to promote horizontal cooperation and technical exchange among Countries of the Region with the support of the different international cooperation agencies.

52. The World Food Summit should be the starting point for a global, regional, national and local reorganization of a new, democratic, equitable, efficient and sustainable Food Security system for all and for present and future generations. This implies an assessment of the role of the multilateral agencies as a factor of food insecurity and in addition, to investigate and deliberate on the creation of new ways of organizing Food Security globally.

53. The Heads of State present at the World Food Summit of 1996, should request the Director-General of FAO to convene a New Roman Forum, to be held every two years, immediately before the FAO Conferences. These meetings should be held as Round Tables, gathering top-level staff of the Organization, the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Bank, the International Consultative Group on Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with non-governmental organizations, people’s organizations, social movements and representatives of agroindustries in order to revise, discuss and develop all aspects of the international agenda on agriculture and food. The Director-General of FAO should also be urged to form a similar group immediately before the biannual Regional Conferences. We invite the Heads of State to promote similar participative fora at the national and local levels.

54. Civil society intends to hold a Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Food Security (LACCFS) to apply and present the measures adopted during the World Food Summit in Rome.

Appendix 3

PLAN OF ACTION OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND NGOs

1. To assume, for our part, the obligations of civil society and to urge governments to take on their share of responsibility so as to activate all possible and necessary mechanisms to eliminate hunger in the world.

2. To select a representation from this meeting to participate in the 24th FAO Regional Conference to present the Policy Statement of the Social Movements and NGOs and our suggestions regarding the FAO Policy Statement and Plan of Action for the World Food Summit.

3. To assess at this meeting the level of participation of civil society in each country in the preparatory process for the Summit. To call on the 24th FAO Regional Conference to ensure such participation in the future.

4. To promote at country level - as and when appropriate - meetings, workshops and seminars with producers, consumers an other members of society involved in food security, so as to take stock of national situations and define proposals for, and forms of participation in, the Summit.

5. To promote the organization of events in all the countries of the region, where possible, on World Food Day (16 October) and, at the same time, a symbolic ceremony under the slogan "Food First" at the meeting "Mitad del Mundo" (Ecuador), with the participation of at least one representative from each country and encouraging the presence of the regional and world media. This activity will open the "Eight Days" campaign leading up to UN Day (24 October), in which all countries should undertake a series of activities culminating in the formal delivery of the petition drawn up for the occasion and for which signatures will be collected throughout the world.

6. To set up a Liaison Committee - with names and addresses - for the networks of the region so as to make this plan of action viable and maintain contact and exchange information up until the Summit.

7. One of the tasks of this Committee will be to circulate - in various languages - the results of this meeting and information on the event to be held in Ecuador.

8. To convene a Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Food Security to plan food security actions and follow up on the resolutions adopted at the Summit.

Appendix 4

REGIONAL NGO CONSULTATION FOR
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
ON THE WORLD FOOD SUMMIT

Asunción, Paraguay, 30 June - 1 July 19961

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

ARGENTINA

BIAGGI, Cristina

Promoción de la Mujer Rural
(PROMEDUR)
24 de Septiembre 1382
(4200) Santiago del Estero
Santiago del Estero
Teléfono: 85-214.832
Fax: 85-241.414
E-Mail: biaggi@unsere.edo.ar

YANELLI DE ARANITI, Ana Blanca del Carmer

Fundación Argentina para el Desarrollo
Socioeconómico Sustentable (FADESS)
Serú 73 - 75 (Código 5.500)
Mendoza
Teléfono: (061) 241.687
Fax: (061) 241.687

GONZALEZ, Dora Antonia

Comisión Católica Argentina para la Campaña Mundial Contra el Hambre
Acción Pro Desarrollo (CCACMCH)
Junín 1014 - 2º Piso "D"
Buenos Aires
Teléfono: (54 1) 822.9097

VERNENGO, Pable Gabriel

Consejo Profesional de Ingeniería Agronómica (CPIA)
Arenales 1678
Buenos Aires
Fax: (54 1) 813.5430 / 812.3269

LAMAS, Alvaro

Movimiento Agrario de la Región Pampeana (MARP)
Av. Rivadavia 2358 5º Piso "B"
1034 - Buenos Aires
Teléfono: (54-1) 954.3672
Fax: (54-1) 954.3672
E-Mail: almarp@pinos.com

FONTENLA, Eduardo Héctor

Fundación Agraria Argentina (FAA)
Mitre 1132
Rosario, Pcia. de Santa Fé
Teléfono: 20-0916
Fax: 20-0999

BOLIVIA

OLMOS ORTIZ, Yocelynn

Asociación de Instituciones de Promoción y Educación (AIPE)
Pinilla 525
La Paz
Teléfono: 413.272 / 415.244
Fax: 410.242
Casilla 7155

TERPSTRA, Tony

Proyecto Donaciones Alimentarias y Seguridad Alimentaria (DASA)
Av. 16 de Julio # 1479
Edif. San Pablo Of. 1502
Casilla 3595
La Paz
Teléfono: 391.259
Fax: 391.259
E-Mail: DASA@SNV LP.RDS.ORG.BO

MENDIETA PEREZ, Reynaldo

Agroecología Universidad Cochabamba (AGRUCO)
Av. Petrolera Km. 4 1/2
Casilla: 3392
Cochabamba
Teléfono: 52601
Fax: (0591-42) 52602
E-Mail: agruco@dicyt.nrc.edu.bo

BRAZIL

MORELLI, Mauro

DIOCESE DE DUQUE DE CAIXAS
Av. Pres. Kennedy 1861
25010-001 D. Cax: AS-RJ
Rio da Janeiro
Teléfono: (55-21) 671.9444
Fax: (55-21) 7713.459
E-Mail: mitra@ax.apc.org

VALENTE, Flavio Luz Schiëck

Associacâo para Projetos de Combate a Fome (AGORA)
SCLN 210 Bloco C Salas 215-219
Brasilia, D.F.
Teléfono: (55-61) 3474.914
Fax: (55-61) 349.002
E-Mail: agora@ax.apc.org

LINO DE JESUS, Eli

Assessoria e Servicios a Projetos em Agricultura Alternativa (As-PTA)
Rua de Candelaria, 9/604. Centro
Rio de Janeiro - RJ - 20.090.020
Teléfono: (021) 253.8317
Fax: (021) 233.8363
E-Mail: aspta@ax.apc.org

GALEAZZI MARTINS, María Antonia

Conferência de Projetos Estratégicos (CPE)
Cidade Universitaria - NEPA/UNICAMP
Campinas
Teléfono: (019) 239.7320
Fax: (019) 239.4717
E-Mail: NEPA@FEA.UNICAMP.BR

LISBOA PACHECO, María Emilia

Federacâo de Orgaôs pra Assistencia Social e Educacional/Associacâo de ONG(s) (FASE/ABONG)
Rua das Palmeiras 90
Rio da Janeiro
Teléfono: (021) 286.1441
Fax: (021) 286.1209
E-Mail: fase@ax.apc.org

PRIMAVESI, Ana

Fazenda ECOLOGICA
Itai c.p. 36
Sao Paulo
Teléfono: (0055) 14 974-90-99
Fax: (0055) 147 521 598

GANZER, Avelino

Confederacâo Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura (CONTAG)
SDS Ed. Venâncio VI - 1º Andar
CEP 70393-900 Brasilia, D.F.
Teléfono: (061) 321.2288
Fax: (061) 321.3229

PIAMONTE PEÑA, René

Instituto Biodinámico de Desenvolvimiento Rural/Associacâo Brasileira de Agricultura Biodinámica (IBDR)
Caixa Postal 321
CEP. 18603-970 Botucatu, S.P.
Teléfono: (55-014) 822.5066
Fax: (55-014) 822.5066 / 975.9011
E-Mail: abd@ax.ibase.org.br

MENEZES, Francisco

Assoc. Brasileira de ONGs (ABONG)
Rua Vicente de Souza, 12
Rio de Janeiro
Teléfono: 521.7823
E-mail: chico@ax.apc.org

MALUF, Renato Sérgio

Red de Instituciones Vinculadas a la Capacitación en Economía y Políticas Agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe
(REDCAPA/CPDA)
Av. Presidente Vargas, 417/8º
Rio de Janeiro
Teléfono: 55-21-221.3436
E-mail: rmaluf@omega.lncc.br

CHILE

AHUMADA, Mario

Movimiento Agroecológico de Latinoamérica y El Caribe - Centro Humanista para el Desarrollo Campesino (MAELA-CENTRO CATEV)
1 Oriente Nº 978
Talca
Teléfono: 56-71-227.364
Fax: 56-71-222.169

YAÑEZ, Patricio

Movimiento Agroecológico Chileno (MACH)
Ricardo Cumming 90 3A P-3
Santiago - 2
Teléfono: 6720.798/6966.837
Fax: 6727.098

BASUÑAN MALDONADO, Orla Mariela

Corporación de Profesionales por el Desarrollo (CORPROA)
San Francisco 0952
Temuco
Teléfono: 045-246.887

HERNANDEZ ASTUDILLO, Romualdo

Corporación JUNDEP
Viña del Mar # 12 Providencia
Santiago
Teléfono: 6353.967 / 6353.151
Fax: 222.5520
E-Mail:JUNDEPO4@choapa.CIC.
Userena.CL

PALMA C., Gonzalo

Movimiento Campesino y Etnias de Chile (MUCECH)
Tucapel Jimenez 95 Dep. D 2º piso
Santiago
Teléfono: 562-687.358
Fax: 562-695.1093

YURJEVIC, Andrés

Consorcio Latino Americano de Agroecología y Desarrollo (CLADES)
Europa 2008
Santiago
Teléfono: 234.1141
Fax: 233.8918

CHONCHOL, Jacques

Universidad Arcis (ARCIS)
Riquelme 344
Santiago
Teléfono: 671.9100
Fax: 671.9100

ANDRADE R., Luis G.

Asociación Latinoamericana de Avicultura (A.L.A.)
Manuel Rodríguez, Oriente Nº 83
Santiago
Teléfono: (56-2) 698.6002
Fax: (56-2) 695.7725
E-Mail: AVILATIN@ENETELCHILE.NET

LETELIER, Oscar M.

Corporacón de Investigación en Agricultura Alternativa (C.I.A.L.)
Almirante Riveros 043
Santiago
Teléfono: 6353.051 / 6342.452
Fax: 6353.051

COLOMBIA

CASTAÑO ARCILA, Guillermo

Fundación Suiza para la Cooperación al Desarrollo (SWISSAID)
Apartado Aéreo 18456
Bogotà
Teléfono: 3344.473
Fax: 2432.764
E-Mail: sacol@colmodo.rgc.apc.org

CASTAÑO CANO, Leonora

Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas e Indígenas de Colombia (ANMULIC)
Transversal 29 nº 37 18
Bogotà
Teléfono: 2682.208 / 3343.465
Fax: 2868.163

CUBA

ALVAREZ LICEA, Mavis Dora

Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños (ANAP)
C/13 esq. I. Vedado
Havana
Teléfono: 33.42.44
Fax: 33.42.44

ECUADOR

MUÑOZ NAVEA, Isabel Francisca

Centro Ecuatoriano para la Promoción y Acción de la Mujer (C.E.P.A.M.)
Rios 2238 y Gandara
Quito
Teléfono: 670.227 y 230.844
Fax: 672.249 y 546.155

TATAMUES PRADO, Luis Omar

Federación Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas Indígenas (FENOC-I)
Versalles y Carrión 1008
Apartado Postal 17-12-00448
Quito
Teléfono: 593-2 228.191
Fax: 228.193

PERALVO, Lourdes

Coordinadora Ecuatoriana de Agroecología (C.E.A.)
Alejandro de Valdez 252 y La Gasca
Quito
Teléfono: 234.152
Fax: 234.152

GUATEMALA

CHARCHALAC SANTAY, Sebastián

Coordinadora Nacional de Medianos y Pequeños Productores (CONAMPRO/ASOCODE)
11 Avenida 13-35 Zona 12
Guatemala City
Teléfono: (502) 2732.491
Fax: (502) 2732.491

HAITI

FLEURISTIN, Lionel

Coordination Development Office Methodist Church of Haiti (COD-EMH)
15, Jacquet St., Delmas 95
Petion-Ville
Teléfono: 577.544
Fax: 577.544

MICHAUD, Arnouck M.R.

Centre d'Analyse de Politiques de Santé (CAPS)
Rue Darguin # 48 P.V.
Port-au-Prince
Teléfono: 57-4814 / 1084
Fax: 57-1084
E-Mail: P.O. Box 15577 P.V. Haitin W.I.

HONDURAS

RODRIGUEZ SALINAS, Andrés Avelino

Consejo Coordinador de Organizaciones Campesinas de Honduras (COCOCH)
Calle Principal de la p.c. Barrio La Plazuela
Tegucigalpa
Teléfono: 38.17.83
Fax: 38.17.83

ARRIAGA DE MARTINEZ, Haydée

Unidad de Servicios de Apoyo para la Mujer (UNISA)
Calzada La Leona, 1ra vuelta
Tegucigalpa
Teléfono: 22-8240

MEXICO

MENESES MURILLO, Luis

Unión Nacional de Organizaciones Regionales Campesinas Autónomas (UNORCA)
Calle Juan de Dios Arias # 48,
Col. Vista Alegre
México, D.F.
Teléfono: (5) 740.0486
Fax: (5) 741.5065
E-Mail: unorcared@laneta.apc.org

RODRIGUEZ CAMARA, Rolando

Confederación Nacional Campesina (CNC)
Mariano Azuela 121 Col. Sta. María la R.
México, D.F.
Teléfono: 5-41-62-98
Fax: 5-41-62-98
E-Mail: RTNOO89@rtn.net.mx

MESEGUER, Xochitl

Foro de Apoyo Mutuo (FAM)
Xochicalco 510 Col. Nanarte
México D.F. c.p. 03020
Teléfono: 559.1440
Fax: 559.7641
E-Mail: fam@laneta.apc.org

CRUZ HERNANDEZ, Isabel

Asociación Mexicana de Uniones de Crédito del Sector Social, A.C. (AMUCSS)
Ometusco 97, Col. Hipódromo Condesa
México, D.F.
Teléfono: 515.7750 / 515.4232
Fax: 2 72.72.96
E-Mail: amucss@laneta.apc.org

NICARAGUA

NAVARRO, Amilcar

Unión Nacional de Agricultores y Ganaderos (UNAG)
Parque Las Palmas 1/2 abajo
Managua
Teléfono: 266.3511
Fax: 266.2433

PARAGUAY

GARCIA, Hermes Juan

Centro Paraguayo de Cooperativistas (CPC)
Oliva 1019 casi Colón 2º Piso Ofic. 22
Asunción
Teléfono: 498.602
Fax: 498.602

PASTORE FERREIRA, Andrés Antonio

Centro Paraguayo de Cooperativistas (CPC)
Oliva NI 1019
Asunción
Teléfono: 498.602
Fax: 498.602

MARTINEZ GARCIA, Estanislao

Organización Nacional Campesina (ONAC)
Piribebuy nº 1078 c/ Hernandarias
Asunción
Teléfono: 492.154 / 444.084
Fax: 492.154

WEHRLE RIVAROLA, Andrés T.

Centro de Educación, Capacitación y Tecnología Campesina (CECTEC)
Manuel Dominguez 1040
Asunción
Teléfono: 201.512
Fax: 201.512
E-Mail: edutec@cectec.py

ORTIZ PERSICHINO, Carlos

Centro de Educación, Capacitación y Tecnología Campesina (CECTEC)
Manuel Dominguez 1040
Asunción
Teléfono: 201.512
Fax: 201.512
E-Mail: edutec@cectec.py

DURE, Elizabeth

Centro de Educación, Capacitación y Tecnología Campesina (CECTEC)
Manuel Dominguez 1040
Asunción
Teléfono: 201.512
Fax: 201.512
E-Mail: edutec@cectec.py

MARECOS ZEBALLOS, Valentín

Unión Campesina Nacional (UCN)
Mariscal López y Caballero
Asunción
Teléfono: 445.598
Fax: 445.598

AGUAYO, Luis

Movimiento Campesono Paraguayo (MCP-MCNOC)
Ciudad de Coronel Oviedo
Teléfono: 83.233

LLANO, Maximino

Federación Nacional Campesina (FNC)
Ñangapiry 1196 c/ Cacique Cará Cará
Asunción
Teléfono: 512.384
Fax: 512.384

OCAMPOS, Genoveva

Base - Educación, Comunicación, Tecnología Alternativa (BASE-ECTA)
Hernanderias 1047
Asunción
Teléfono: 83233
Fax: 447.282

ENCISO, Víctor

Base - Educación, Comunicación, Tecnología Alternativa (BASE-ECTA)
Hernanderias 1047
Asunción
Teléfono: 83233
Fax: 447.282
E-Mail: nebe@basecta.una.py

BORDA, Dionisio

Centro de Análisis y Difusión de Economía Paraguaya (CADEP)
Oliva 1019 y Colón Piso 12
Asunción
Teléfono: (0595-21) 497.418
Fax: (0595-21) 497.418

SEQUERA, Guillermo

Naturaleza y Cultura (AXIAL)
Calle Brasil 852
Asunción
Teléfono: 663.056
Fax: 663.056

RAMIREZ, Bacilio

Coordinadora Interdepartamental de los Sin Tierra (CIST)
San Estanislao
Ciudad de San Estanislao
Teléfono: 25.039

RUBIN, Gloria Beatriz

Fundación Kuñá Aty (Kuñá Aty)
Teodoro S. Mongelós y Tte. Arce Rojas
Asunción
Teléfono: 26.793
Fax: 26.793

OSORIO, Hisailda

Fundación Kuñá Aty (Kuñá Aty)
Teodoro S. Mongelós y Tte. Arce Rojas
Asunción
Teléfono: 26.793
Fax: 26.793

PAREDES CACERES, Marcelino Ramón

Asociación Campesina de Desarrollo Integrado (ACDEI)
Desvío Unión
Yataity del Norte
Teléfono: 437

MAXTINORY, Teonilda

Asociación Campesina de Desarrollo Integrado (ACDEI)
Desvío Unión
Yataity del Norte
Teléfono: 347

SOSA PAREDES, Mercedes

Cooperativa Colonias Unidas Agrícola Limitada (CCUAL)
Dr. Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia # 72
Obligado, Itapúa
Teléfono: 075-451/5

LOPEZ BOSIO, Teresa

Base Investigaciones Sociales (BASE-IS)
Milano 731
Asunción
Teléfono: (595-21) 447.834
Fax: (595-21) 498.306
E-Mail: base@ax.apc.org
Asunción

CAPUTO, Luis Alberto

Base Investigaciones Sociales (BASE-IS)
Milano 731
Asunción
Teléfono: (595-21)447.834
Fax: (595-21)498.306
E-mail: base@ax.apc.org

PALAU VILADESAU, Tomás

Base Investigaciones Sociales (BASE-IS)
Milano 731
Asunción
Teléfono: (595-21)447.834
Fax: (595-21)498.306
E-mail: base@ax.apc.org

CABALLERO DE ESPINOLA, Miryan Teresa

Centro de Estudios y Formación para el Ecodesarrollo (ALTER VIDA)
Juan Motta 310 y Andrade C.C. 2334
Asunción
Teléfono: (595-21)662.402
Fax: (595-21) 662.402

CANOVA, Hildgard

Servicio de Formación y Estudios de la Mujer (SEFEM)
José Rivera 962
Asunción
Teléfono: 213.689

RIQUELME, Quintín

Centro de Documentación y Estudios (CDE)
Paí Pérez 737 c/ Herrera
Asunción
Teléfono: 23591/204.295
Fax: 213.246
E-mail: cdc@edu.una.py

PERALTA DUARTE, María Isabel

Guaranies nº4198 c/Von Ziztrow
Asunción
Teléfono: 502.277

PEREIRA GALEANO, Sixto

Centro de Capacitación de Desarrollo Agrícola (CCDA)
18 de Junio c/Los Alpes
Ciudad de Lambaré
Teléfono: 321.326
Fax: 321.326

PERU

CONTRERAS IVARCENA, Eduardo

Asociación Nacional de Centro/Centro de Investigación, Educación y Desarrollo (ANC-CIED)
Calle Buen Retiro 231 - Surco
Lima
Teléfono: 437.8327 / 434.2537
Fax: 437.8327

MERINO VILLAGARAY, Judith Maritza

Instituto de Investigación y Capacitación de la Familia y la Mujer (INCAFAM)
Calle Capac Yupanqui # 1082 - Jesús María
Lima
Teléfono: 471.7277
Fax: 472.5011
E-Mail: postmat@incafam.org.pe

VILLANUEVA, Elena

CMP FLORA TRISTAN
Flora Tristán
Parque Hernán Velarde nº 42
Lima
Teléfono: 331.457
Fax: 339.060

ACEVEDO TOVAR, Ana María

Fomento de la Vida (FOVIDA)
Javier Prado 109 - Magdalena
Lima
Teléfono: 461.4856
Fax: 4610.106
E-Mail: aacevedo@fovida.org.pe

MORENO VARGAS, José Antonio

Confederación Campesina del Perú (CCP)
Plaza Bolognesi # 558
Lima
Teléfono: (5114) 339.334 - 251.655 - 240.452
Fax: (5114) 339.334 - 251.655

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

CRUZ TINEO, Porfirio Nicolás

Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Empresa Asociativa Campesina (IDEAC)
Dr. Pineyro # 166 (altos) Zona Universitaria
Santo Domingo
Teléfono: (809) 682.3877 y 686.3263
Fax: (809) 682.4088

URUGUAY

GARCIA Y SANTOS, María del Rosario

Asociación Nacional de Grupos de Mujeres Rurales del Uruguay (ANGMRU)
Joaquín Requena 1204
Montevideo
Teléfono: 0317 - 2355
Fax: 0317 - 2355

AROCHA QUIJANO, Ana María

Asociación Nacional de Grupos de Mujeres Rurales del Uruguay (ANGMRU)
Joaquín Requena 1204
Montevideo
Teléfono: 0317 - 2355
Fax: 0317 - 2355

BIDART, Raúl

Servicio de Aprendizaje para el Desarrollo (SADES)
Tristán Narvaja 1513 of. 308
Montevideo
Teléfono: (598-2) 416.529
Fax: (598-2) 499.253
E-Mail: sades@chasque.apc.org

MARZAROLI, Silvio

Red Interamericana de Agricultura y Democracía (RIAD)
Valparaíso 1171
Montevideo
Teléfono: (598) 342.6049
Fax: (598) 342.6049

VILLAVERDE, Héctor

Centro de Estudios, Análisis y Documentación del Uruguay (CEADU)
Canelones 1136
Montevideo
Teléfono: 925.448
Fax: 925.448
E-Mail: ceadu@chasque.apc.org

QUINTANS, Sandra

Mesa de Agroecología del Uruguay (MAU)
Colonia 2069 - 11200
Montevideo
Teléfono: (598-2) 489.158
Fax: (598-2) 492.343
E-Mail: ipru@chasque.apc.org

VENEZUELA

NUÑEZ, Miguel Angel

Instituto para la Producción e Investigación de la Agricultura Tropical (IPIAT)
Apartado 84
Mérida
Teléfono: 00.58.74.523779; 524513
Fax: 00.58.74.523779
E-Mail: ipiat@bolivar.funmrd.gov.ve

INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

ROCHA, Conceicâo De Oliveira

Uniâo Internacional dos Organismos Familiares - América latina (UIOF)
Rua Maurício Caillet, 265
Curitiba CEP.80250.110
Brazil
Teléfono: (041) 242.6115
Fax: (041) 242.6115

RUDELL, Edward

Vecinos Mundiales (VM)
Casilla 20005
Santiago 20
Santiago
Chile
Teléfono: 2171.154
Fax: 2171.154
E-Mail: vecinos@iactiva.cl

CROVETTO MATTASSI, María Mirta

Consumers International (CI)
Los Leones 2295
Santiago
Chile
Teléfono: 2234.172 / 2234.763
E-Mail: iocu@ax.apc.org

ZARZA, Marcelino

Asociación Latonoamericana de Organización de Promoción Social (ALOP)
L.A. de Herrea 2034
Asunción
Paraguay
Teléfono: 25039
Fax: 25039

CENTURION ESCURRA, Celsa Adriana

Franciscanas Misiones de María (FMM)
Estrella 873
Asunción
Paraguay
Teléfono: 492.414

PORTAS BRUNSO, Montserrat

Franciscanas Misiones de María (FMM)
Estrella 873
Asunción
Paraguay
Teléfono: 492.414

HIROO, Tomoko Rosa

Franciscanas Misiones de María (FMM)
Estrella 873
Asunción
Paraguay
Teléfono: 492.414

ALVARENGA ROMERO, Blanca Natividad

Franciscanas Misiones de María (FMM)
Estrella 873
Asunción
Paraguay
Teléfono: 492.414

RIVERA, Luzviminda

Franciscanas Misiones de María (FMM)
Estrella 873
Asunción
Paraguay
Teléfono: 492.414

ROA, Fulvia Concepción

Hermanas Educacionistas Franciscanas de Cristo Rey (HHEEFF)
Barrio Obrero
Ciudad de Pedro Juan Caballero
Paraguay
Teléfono: 036.3250
Fax: 496.234

ALVAREZ PALACIOS, Rumilda

Congregación Hnas. Educacionistas de Cristo (CHEFCR)
Posta Ybyraró
Ciudad de Capiatá
Paraguay
Teléfono: 351.84

PEREZ SANABRIA, Perla Miriam

Hermanas Educacionistas Franciscanas de Cristo Rey (CHEFCR)
Paraguarí 845
Asunción
Paraguay
Teléfono: 449.041
Fax: 496.234

ROBLES, Francisca R.

Hermanas Educacionistas Franciscanas de Cristo Rey (CHEFCR)
Paraguarí 845
Asunción
Paraguay
Teléfono: 449.041
Fax: 496.234

RHEINECK, Juan

Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales
Asociación Latinoamericana de Organizaciones de Promoción (ALOP-CEPES)
Salaverry 818 - Jesús María
Lima 11
Peru
Teléfono: 433.6610
Fax: 433.1744
E-Mail: cepes@cepes.org.pe

WANDEMBERG, Juan Carlos

International Institute for Natural Human and Cultural Resource Management (IIRM)
Box 30003, Dept. 3169
Las Cruces, New Mexico
USA
Teléfono: (505) 646.2825
Fax: (505) 646.3808
E-Mail: iirm@nmsu.edu

GOERTZEN HARDER, Jacobo

Federación Panamericana de la Lechería (FEPALE)
Ituzaingó 1324/503, 11.000
Montevideo
Uruguay
Teléfono: (5982) 965.356 - 957.670
Fax: (5982) 957.670
E-Mail: Internet ug. 31702

CAÑETE, Neri Eulogio

Federación Panamericana de la Lechería (FEPALE)
Ituzaingó 1324/503, 11.000
Montevideo
Uruguay
Teléfono: (5982) 965.356 - 957.670
Fax: (5982) 957.670
E-Mail: Internet ug. 31702

LASSO BETHANCOURT, José I.

Federación Latinoamericana de Trabajadores Campesinos y la Alimentación (FELTACA/FEMTAAA)
Apartado 1422
Caracas, 1010 A
Venezuela
Teléfono: (032)721549
Fax: 58.32.720463