News
Laos green lights listing of local non profit organisations
[11-19-2009]Individuals who want to set up a non-profit organisation can now apply for a licence through the Public Administration and Civil Servant Authority. State Administration Development Department Deputy Director General, Mr Ampha Simmasone, confirmed this week the department was ready to accept application forms from people wanting to set up an association in Laos.
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The World Rural Forum has published a new issue of his bulletin New Earth
[11-18-2009]The bulletin number 33 of the World Rural Forum is available. Its central theme is the International Day of Rural Women and can be downloaded in a new format.
Peru and Colombia continue negotiation of FTA with the EU
[11-18-2009]With hope in this week to close the trade agreement; Peru and Colombia yesterday in Bogota launched the Seventh Round of Negotiations to reach an FTA with the European Union (EU).
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[11-17-2009]
On the opening of FAO’s World Summit on Food Security, Jonjon Sarmiento, a young farmer for Mindoro Island in the Philippines, and a participant to the CSO Forum Parellel to the World Summit on Food Security, will go on a hunger strike to protest the mining project to be operated by Intex Resources, a giant mining company in Norway.
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[11-16-2009]On the occasion of the summit of the FAO, Summit on Food Security, and its parallel forum, International Forum of Civil Society for Food Sovereignty of Peoples, two representatives of the World Rural Forum, Jose Antonio Osaba and Jose Mari Zeberio, have moved to the Italian city.
Members of CIPCA and Agrocaine visited the World Rural Forum
[11-13-2009]On November 11, visited the Secretariat of the WRF two of the protagonists of the project in Bolivia "Sweet Between Contries" Gladys Chumacero (President of the Association of Producers Agrocaine) and Merardo Pozo (technical agronomist Research Center Organization and Promotion of Peasantry -CIPCA).
Document 2009/2010 regional agricultural and food prospects for the Sahel and West Africa
[11-13-2009]A document detailing the results of a technical consultation held in Accra, Ghana, on the prospects for grain harvest.
FAO calls for world hunger strike against hunger
[11-12-2009]On the eve of next week’s World Summit on Food Security, FAO today called for a day-long, worldwide hunger strike against chronic hunger.
An INDRA project awarded by the BPS
[11-11-2009]The Social Security Bank-BPS, between approximately 50 projects submitted, chose the one presented by INDRA, member of World Rural Forum, as first prize for granting financial support. In the second place was the Child Care Center-CENAI.
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[11-11-2009]
CIPCA's video about climate change.
