Lima, 24 Jan, 2006

 

With more than 100 national and international participants like small farmers, indigenous, consumers and NGOs, finished the International Seminary "Toward Common Agenda of Organic Agriculture in Latinoamerica and the Caribbean like pre - event the First Regional Assembly of GALCI.

Between the international guests coming Felipe Iniquez (Mexico), Abel Ribera(Nicaragua), Eduardo Calderon (Guatemala), Miguel Castro (Costa Rica), Ricardo Delgado (Cuba), Adriana Bermudez (Colombia), Alexander von Labell (Colombia), Carlos A. Escobar (Colombia), Jose Rivanedeira (Ecuador), Gustavo Birbuet (Bolivia), Ann P. (Bolivia), Miguel Altieri (USA), Virginia Zenteno (Chile), Maria Clazada (Argentina) and Pipo Lernoud from IFOAM World Board, among others of Peruvian origin.

The event began with some words by Antonieta Manrique - director of the Ecologic Agriculture Network of Peru (RAE), Angela Caudle - executive director of IFOAM and Patricia Flores- GALCI coordinate; then, some speakers spoke about balance and detailed state of ecologic agriculture in Latinoamerica.  The same, poinst like local markets, participatory guarantee systems and farmers rights were subjects with active participation of guests and farmers' representatives.

Also, different representatives from diverse organizations like MAELA, IFOAM, GALCI, SOCLA and RAPAL shared their activities and ideas with the purpose of finding points in common.

This event has been catalogued like one of the most important in the region because the advance and consolidation of Latin American ecologic agriculture depend of strategic alliances.