More than 1200 farmers’ and civil society organizations, national and international institutions, professionals and specialists from over 70 countries expressed support for the forum, which brought together 400 people from all over the world in a free and open discussion about land and natural resource access.

Ten years after the World Forum on Agrarian Reforms (Valencia, Spain, 2004) and the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2006) the trends seem unchanged, if not worse. The Forum’s final declaration contains a call with proposals to deal with this situation. It can be read here (link is external).

Roberto Ugas, IFOAM – Organics International World Board member, represented us at this important forum. He was a panelist in the workshop on “Environment, Agro-ecology, Soil, Water, Climate Change”. He spoke about access to land and natural resources as a major constraint to the scaling up of agroecological and organic alternatives for agriculture and the management of natural resources.