Food sovereignty issue
Food sovereignty is the concept that non-industrial farmers have developed to defend their rights.
The rights to food and to decent life pass by recognizing and protecting the right of access to land, seeds, water, suitable credits, but also the sharing of agricultural knowledge and the equitable transfer of technology well adapted.
Recent food crisis have highlighted the neglect of political will to develop agriculture competent to feed people of today and tomorrow.
Demand from the U.N. the immediate and precautionary withdrawal of Paul Kagame as Co-Chair of the Promoter group of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)
A virtual visit with ARTE to get in the atmosphere of the twelve African countries that gained independence in 1960, please go to: http://www.arte.tv/afrique for web documentaries in French.
Une visite avec ARTE dans l'atmosphère africaine des 12 pays qui ont gagné l'indépendance en 1960. En français.
" Aware that the common good requires respect for the principles of democracy which include, among others; equality among persons, the sovereignty of the people and respect for the rule of law, the current events in the country indicate that there is a lot of fear and anxiety about the social, economic and political future of this country"