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Dear Friends,

We are requesting you to SIGN-UP the International Planning Committee (IPC) letter to Dr. Jacques Diouf, FAO Director General. The deadline to SIGN-UP the letter is until SEPTEMBER 15.

As you might know, the process to facilitate an independent parallel Forum of Civil Society to FAO Summit in November 2009 is risky. We are sending a letter to Dr. Diouf asking to respect the two basic principles of autonomy and self-organization.

The Philippine-based groups representing farmers, peasant women, workers, agricultural workers, urban poor, government employees association, NGOs and church sector coming from different organizations such as the PUMALAG (Peoples’ Network against Liberalization of Agriculture), Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), IBON Foundation and Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) has developed a campaign plan against WTO and FTAs until December 2009. The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) is supporting this campaign plan.

As part of its ongoing celebration of the Year of Rice Action (YORA), the All Nepal Peasants Federation (ANPFa) hosted an interactive rice workshop in Kathmandu on the 15th and 16th of August. The successful event was one of a number of activities organized by ANPFa to bring attention to the issue of rice in Nepal and featured presentations on genetically engineered rice, the importance of rice to the Nepalese economy, the System of Rice Intesification and rice culture.

Dear APC members and friends,

People’s Action on Climate Change (PACC)

Asian Women's Quilt on Climate Change

For inquiries, please contact the project Secretariat at asianclimatequilt@ gmail.com and
www.asianclimatequilt.org.

Context

From 1 to 3 October 2009, various Asian grassroots, peoples, and civil society organizations will be convening in Bangkok, Thailand for the People's Action on Climate Change (PACC) an assembly that will present the voices and faces of the people most affected by the serious impacts of climate change – the grassroots sectors in Asia.