We, the people of SAARC countries, the CSOs and mass organizations from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka representing the movements of peoples' organizations, peasants, landless farmers, women, indigenous people, Dalits, pastoral herders, fisher-folks, rural youths, small and medium sized producers and agricultural workers assembled in the international conference on Forum for Food Sovereignty and peasants' rights under PEOPLES' SAARC on 23- 25 March, 2007 at Kathmandu,
Notice it with great concern that most people of these countries are falling in the grip of the hunger and starvation due to the denial of peasants' access to land and food producing resources which abounds in the Nature's endowments in this quarter,
Consider this grim situation as the result of Governments' subjugation to neo-liberal policy regimes concocted by the imperialist forces in the new form and implemented in conspiracy with IFIs, such as World Bank, IMF, ADB etc., to exploit and extort high profit for TNCs which are based in developed countries at the cost of toiling masses,
Strongly believe that peace and social justice get its root only when the people of these countries become successful to assert genuine land and agrarian reform, establish food sovereignty and inclusive democracy,
Congratulate Nepalese people for their heroic April Revolution 2006, which restored not only Democracy in this Himalayan Land but also tracked the country to republicanism and for their arduous struggle to put Food Sovereignty in national agenda, which has already been included in the Interim Constitution of Nepal, 2006
Express our warm solidarity with the struggling people and peasants of the SAARC countries, in particular and other countries in general, in their just struggle to put an end to the autocratic rules in whatever form it exists in any quarter and establish peace, social justice, and people's democracy with food sovereignty in their respective countries,
And, call upon all concerned stakeholders to put pressure on the heads of states and governments going to be assembled in New Delhi for forth coming Fourteenth SAARC Summit to declare the region hunger free zone.
Protect community wisdom with Biodiversity based ecological Agriculture system
Implement comprehensive land reform and genuine agrarian reform
Ensure women ownership on seed and right over land and productive resources
Revoke patent on life forms and food as traded commodity only
Stop neo-liberal policies and negotiations thereof such as WTO, FTA etc.
Conserve, preserve and protect the farmers' knowledge of traditional rice culture and rice cultivation
Implement the programme of food sovergenity as the basis of international treaties
Protect our bio- diversity wealth and their community usages, both product and processes
Hate bio-piracy and IPR provisions that deprive local communities their legitimacy over "improved" genre
De- privatisation on productive resources, social service and common property
Resist process of imperialist Globalization and call moratorium on GMOs
Assert peasants rights to land and productive resources
Avert increasing vulnerability of marginal land holders and stop to fall into landlessness
Abolish all forms of bondage including debt-bondage victimizing the agricultural wage labourers
Insure fair wages to agricultural workers and minimum social protection for all poor farm families both wage workers and self-employed
Enlarge and establish agriculture market in rural areas by increasing rural electrification and other infra-structures
Ensure unemployment benefits to rural agricultural laborers
Ensure livelihood of indigenous people and Dalits
Condemn international organizations like IRRI that has collaborating with industry against peasants
WTO, out of agriculture. No privatization on common pool resources
Secretariate,
Forum for Food Sovereignty and peasants' rights
Peoples' SAARC, 2007
(All Nepal Peasants' Association , the convenor of the Forum)
