World Forum on Access to Land

The World Forum on Access to Land (WFAL) will take place between March 31st and April 2nd, 2016, on the campus of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.

The WFAL global assembly will “unite as many representatives as possible from the three major categories of signatories. There will be a large number of farmers’ organizations as well as urban and rural civil society organizations (in particular, organizations that are focused on gender and on youth). The forum is of course open to any and all organizations or individuals interested in participating, as long as they respect the WFAL’s mission and the discussion rules laid out by International Organizing Committee” explains the official website of the event.

During day one, five Workshops will take place:

Workshop 1: Land grabbing and land concentration: Quantifying current trends; identifying major players

Workshop 2: Forests

Workshop 3: Halieutic resources

Workshop 4: Evictions, rural exodus, migration, impacts on cities

Workshop 5: Land and natural resources challenges facing women

The theme of the second day is: “Economic, social, environmental, and cultural consequences of current trends in land and natural resource access”

The last day of the conference will discuss on: “Land and natural resource access and the future of humanity: Developing proposals and taking action”.

Some African speaker s confirmed their participation. We have:

-AMIN Samir, Economist, co-founder and director Third World Forum Egypt

-BEN SAAD Abdallah, University lecturer National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia (INRAT)

-CAMARA Jean Ousmane, Land Reform Unit National Coordinator Ministry of Presidential Project, Regional development and Equipment Madagascar

-CISSOKHO Mamadou, Honorary President Network of Farmers and Agricultural Producers Organisations of West Africa, ROPPA Senegal

-COULIBALY Ibrahima, President National Coordination of Farmers’ Organizations in Mali

-SEGBENOU René, Coalition for the Protection of African Genetic Heritage, COPAGEN Benin.

For more details, the program is available here.