Secure access to land, water and related productive assets is basic to lasting solutions to hunger, poverty and sustainable development. For the rural poor, secure access to land results in greater productivity, increased family income and sustainable land use.

The Coalition is proud to have played a leading role in bringing together a wide alliance of organizations, both at the PrepComs and at the Summit itself. As a result of ILC's work, the question of access to land figures prominently in the final report of the Summit (A/Conf. 199/20) which can be found on www.johannesburgsummit.org

Throughout the WSSD preparatory committee (PrepCom) process, the Coalition organized a number of consultations and parallel events and particpated in major groups caucuses. It also invited governments, intergovernmental organizations and other major groups to provide inputs towards A Common Platform on Access to Land

In response to the call for concrete contributions to the Summit, it came naturally to the Coalition to create a global framework – through Land Alliances for National Development , or LAND Partnerships as they have become known – based on what it had learned from its partners at the country and global levels.

Land Alliances for National Development: A Johannesburg Partnership initiative for WSSD - Strengthening the Implementation of Agenda 21 by building country level partnerships on Land

Coalition Sponsored Events and Activities at WSSD
LAND Partnerships was selected by the WSSD Secretariat as one of 60 partnership initiatives (from 300 submitted) for presentation during the plenary presentation on the subject.

Event 1 Launching LAND Partnerships

Statements by ILC Partners and Collaborators at the Launching of LAND Partnerships, 29 August 2002.

Ms Jocelyn Dow - President, WEDO. Member of the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons of the Secretary-General of WSSD

Ms Victoria Tauli-Corpus, leader of Indigenous Peoples (IP) Caucus from Tebtebba, The Philippines

Miguel Urioste, Fundación Tierra, Bolivia

Noer Fauzi Rachman , KPA, Indonesia

Byron Garoz CONGCOOP (Coordination of NGOs and Cooperatives), Guatemala

Biplap Halim , Institute for Motivating Self Employment (IMSE), India

Mohammed Mohyeldin Ismail, General Trade Union of Workers in Agriculture, Egypt

Nathaniel Don Marquez, Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, The Philippines

Event 2 Presentation of LAND Partnerships at the Plenary Session on Partnerships 1 September, 2002

Statements made at the Presentation of LAND Partnership during the official plenary on Partnerships, 1 September 2002

Miguel Urioste , Fundación Tierra, Bolivia

Delfin Ganapin , Government of The Philippines and Philippine Council for Sustainable Development

Events 3-8

Juxtaposing the Outcomes of WSSD and the Global People's Forum

Excerpt from the Global People's Forum

Press Release - Where will the Landless Land? - The Land Poor Essential Partners for Sustainable Development at WSSD

The Coalition and the SARD initiative

During the WSSD PrepCom process, the Coalition forged close links with the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) caucus of WSSD and the FAO/SARD focal point with regard both to its task manager role as described in Agenda 21, (Chapter 14) and its support for the Coalition's work on access to land. (Agenda 21, Chapter 14 paragraph mentions: "The main tools of SARD are policy and agrarian reform, participation, income diversification, land conservation and improved management of inputs. The success of SARD will depend largely on the support and participation of rural people, national governments, the private sector and international cooperation, including technical and scientific cooperation.") There were substantial exchanges of knowledge between FAO/SARD and the Coalition throughout the various WSSD processes. The SARD e-forum facilitated electronic dialogue regarding inputs to A Common Platform on Access to Land. www.fao.org/wssd/SARD/index-en.htm

Preparatory Events leading to the Johannesburg Summit 2002

International Land Coalition is participated in the 8th Meeting of the Commission on Sustainable Development taking place from 24 April to
5 May 2002 in New York.

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Final CSD-8 Reports and Decision

February, 2000  Secretariat of International Land Coalition participated in the Ad Hoc Intersessional Working Group for CSD-8, 22 February to
3 March, 2000

International Land Coalition Statement