29th-31st JANUARY 2009, BARCELONA (S)

FIRST GLOBAL FORUM OF PRODUCERS OF CROPS DECLARED TO BE ILLICIT

http://fmpdci.sistematizacion.org/

OBJECTIVES OF THE FORUM

The First World Forum of the producers of classified illicit crops to be organised in 2008 by CERAI (Centro de Estudios Rurales y de Agricultura Internacional) in partnership with WMPA and the TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE, aims at enabling the producers : 

• To exchange and communicate on the political and socio-economic problems which push their communities towards these forms of agricultures and to largely inform the world public opinion ;
• To discuss the future of the populations concerned : fair and sustainable development of the economies and the rural territories, land reforms, alternative development, development of the licit uses (cultural, medicinal and food) of these crops ;
• To work out proposals for alternative policies to be presented to the official authorities concerned.
• To structure the communities concerned in associations and networks like interlocutors of the national, regional and international authorities and organizations, and to enable them to become actors of their own development.