Asia Pacific Network on Food Sovereignty

The Asia Pacific Network on Food Sovereignty or APNFS is a regional network of social movements, farmers` organizations, women`s organizations and NGOs established to address the issues of increasing trade liberalization in agriculture, worsening food insecurity, massive dislocation of peasants, landlessness, erosion of agricultural biodiversity, and the suppression of peasants` democratic rights common to many countries in the region.

APNFS aims to promote and assert the people`s basic right to adequate, nutritious and safe food as well as their right to sustainable livelihoods. It advocates for the realization of the people`s aspirations for economic justice and democratization by actively resisting the incursion of WTO in the domain of food and agriculture. It rejects the neo-liberal agriculture and trade policies espoused by the WTO and the export-orientated model of agriculture it imposes upon developing countries.

APNFS demands the rights and control of poor peasants, artisanal fishers, indigenous peoples and rural women to land, water and other resources [including genetic resources] that will provide them sustainable livelihoods. APNFS also promotes the merits of sustainable development initiatives on the ground, specifically the experiences of NGOs and peoples` organizations [POs] in promoting sustainable farming technologies as well as agro-ecological models of food production and community-based practices in natural resource conservation and management.

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