Latin America Week Conference

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday April 13, 2010 12:42 by LASC - Latin America Solidarity Centre events at lasc dot ie 5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2 01 6760435

The Oak Room, Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

10.30 – 10.45 Welcome and introduction

10.45 – 11.05 Growing resistance - the fight to fix the food system,
Fergal Anderson, Via Campesina

11.05 – 11.25 *Haiti: From Food Self-Sufficiency to Mud Cookies –The Impact of Global Trade

11.25 – 11.45 Q&A

11.45 – 12.45 Parallel Workshops on Food Sovereignty

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch

13.45 – 15.00 Panel Discussion

Editor: Update from LASC *We regret to inform you that due to a number of unfortunate circumstances, the LAW speaker Camille Chalmers, from PAPDA (Haiti) will not be able to come to Ireland. Instead, we will have a speaker from Brazil, Carlos Augusto Gouveia da Silva, member of the Association of Rural and Urban Autonomous Producers ?an organisation formed during the ?80s in support for demands of Agrarian reform, an currently active linking food growers from the city with those of the countryside, from the perspective of Agroecology. We apologize if this change of plans caused any inconvenience.?