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ILC'S ENGAGEMENT INTO INTERNATIONAL FORA
Conferences and Seminars
In order to provide opportunities for face-to-face exchange of information and collaborative planning by collaborating partners, and to facilitate linkages with similar initiatives by other organizations, ILC is engaged in organizing and participating in conferences and seminars of global relevance. This section outlines some of the most relevant events in which ILC played an active role.

The Global Land Grab - A Human Rights approach
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Geneva, 16 May 2009

The 3D Seminar in Geneva was a great opportunity for ILC to interact with a wide range of international actors that are currently approaching the phenomenon of land acquisitions from a very specific human rights perspective. This seminar was intended to assess the trade and investment agreements that are enabling the trend, as well as its likely effects on small farmers, indigenous peoples and food sovereignty. The seminar has also discussed how the actors involved in land grabbing could be held to account and explore ways to promote human rights-consistent investment in land.

Read the programme
Download the presentation given by Mike Taylor (ILC Secretariat)
International Land Coalition input to the UNDESA/UNW/ESCAP preparatory workshop for CSD17
From 28 to 30 January 2009, Bangkok.

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Brussels Briefing 9.
25th February, Brussels.

The meeting tackled the question of Land access and rural development: new challenges, new opportunities, organised by CTA on 25th February and attended primarily by representatives of ACP delegation and the EC members. A particular focus of the briefing was on the recent trend of large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural production. ILC members participating included EC, FAO, KENFAP and IIED. Michael Taylor, programme manager global policy and Africa gave concluding remarks.

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Oslo Governance Centre Workshop
Land Governance and Emerging Development Agendas: Legal Empowerment, Climate Change and Food Security
From 24 to 26 November 2008 ILC members -IFPRI and RDI- and partners UNDP-DDC and UNECA- participated into a workshop organised by Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) for UNDP Bureau of Development Policy staff (Governance, Drylands and Legal Empowerment), selected Country Offices, and a number of external collaborators.
The event mainly consisted in a process of discussion on promoting pro-poor land governance in the context of three emerging agendas driving UNDP’s work on land governance: Food security, Climate Change and Legal Empowerment.

Workshop agenda and background

Secure access to land for food security
Dr Michael Taylor – Africa and Land Policy Programme Manager, ILC Secretariat.

Key features of ‘pro-poor’ land policy & democratic land governance
Saturnino (‘Jun’) M. Borras Jr - Canada Research Chair in Int’l Dev. Studies Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, N.S., Canada.

Human rights, development and agrofuels
Asbjørn Eide - Chairman, FAO panel of experts on ethics in food and agriculture
CSD-17 Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting
Date : 23-27 February 2008
Venue : New York , USA
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/policy.htm
FAO High Level Conference on World Food Security.
From 3rd - 5th June 2008, 5,159 representatives of 181 countries, including 42 heads of State, met in Rome at the High Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy . ILC members participating included FAO (the host), IFAD, World Food Programme, the World Bank, and IFAP. The International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) held a parallel Forum on the same topic entitled Terra Preta at which a number of ILC members participated, including FAO and IFAD.

Below are the links to the main final statements issued from both events plus a document expressing reflections by the ILC Secretariat on the FAO High Level Conference on World Food Security.
ILC reflections
Declaration of High-Level Conference on World Food Security:
The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
Terra Preta: Forum on the Food Crisis, Climate Change, Biofuels and Food Sovereignty,
Rome 1 - 4 June, 2008.

Commission on Sustainable Development 16
From 5 to 16 May 2008 the Review Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development 16 took place at UN Head Quarters in New York . This 16 th session focused on five thematic issues: Agriculture, Rural Development, Land, Drought, Desertification and Africa .

ILC, with the particular support of IFAD, organised a panel for the thematic discussion on land on the 8 th and a workshop on land on the 9 th . Below you can find reports and documentation concerning these two initiatives.

Panellists for the thematic discussion on Land at the CSD-16:

Ms Rawshan Jahan	ALRD Bangladesh *
Ms Joan Kagwanja	African Union
Mr Laureano Del Castillo	Grupo ALLPA*
Mr Christian Mersmann	Global Mechanism
Mr Klaus Deininger	World Bank*

* ILC Coalition Council Members

ILC Workshop Report:
Growing Insecurity: Land and Vulnerable People

Chairman's Summary

Individual workshop report from ILC Member organization ALRD (Bangladesh)

Submission of the International Land Coalition for the Secretary General's Report for CSD-17 on the Thematic Issue of Land
Following the successful participation into CSD -16, the ILC intends to participate in the upcoming Policy Session of the third implementation cycle: the CSD-17. As the previous one, this session will continue to focus on the thematic issues of agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa. By submitting this brief document about policy options and practical measures to secure access to land and natural resources, ILC continues the work it has initiated with the panel on land and the workshop in May 2008.
ILC Submission for CSD-17 Secretary General's Report on Land

The International Association for the Study of the Commons Governing Shared resources: connecting local experience to global challenges
Cheltenham, England, 14 - 18 July 2008
In line with the wider initiative on Commercial Pressures on Land, ILC members and partners including IIED, CAPRi, LandNet West Africa, RRI, UNDP/OGC, WISP, PLAAS and Mboscuda, have participated in the 2008 IASC biennial meeting, which is considered to be the foremost gathering of scholars and practitioners working on questions of common property.
This year's edition has raised concern about the likely continued increase over the next decades in land grabbing and conflicts over the commons. Many interventions pointed out how the drivers of global increasing commercial pressure on land are strongly affecting the rights to common pool resources, which lies at the centre of ILC's wider work.
ILC Secretariat report below contains reflections on the discussions of relevance to ILC members, and suggestions for the implications this has for the work of the ILC network.
Governing Shared resources: connecting local experience to global challenges
Workshop on Forests, Landscape and Governance:
Roles of local communities, development projects, the state and other stakeholders
Date : September 3 - 7, 2008.
Venue : Punakha, Bhutan
http://www.rightsandresources.org/events.php?id=12
International Conference on Rights, Forests and Climate Change
Date : October 15, 2008 - October 17, 2008.
Venue : Oslo , Norway
http://www.rightsandresources.org/events.php?id=80
6th World Forum of Sustainable Development
Date : 27th-30th October 2008
Venue : Brazzaville , Republic of Congo
http://www.fmdd.fr/
Seminario Nacional Agrocombustibles y Derecho al Territorio"
Del 29-30 de Abril 2008, la organización no gubernamental Diakonia, ha iniciado un seminario para fortalecer los desarrollos del 2007 encuentro en Barrancabermeja donde han reflexionado sobre el derecho al territorio en Colombia. Otras contrapartes que conformaron el grupo coordinador incluyo el Coalición miembro CINEP y otras organizaciones no gubernamentales. El Seminario ce centro sobre la producción de loa agrocombustibles y los impactos sobre la vida de las comunidades y organizaciones.