2. REGIONAL MEETING TO ANALYZE AND DEVELOP THE CONCEPT OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS RELATION WITH FOOD SECURITY AND THE RIGHT TO FOOD REGIONAL MEETING TO ANALYZE AND DEVELOP THE CONCEPT OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS RELATION WITH FOOD SECURITY AND THE RIGHT TO FOOD Amazon Region Protected Areas Program - ARPA and opportunities for regional cooperation Amb. Mauricio Dorfler Executive Director - PS/ACTO Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia October, 24-25, 2013

3. Is a basin of approximately 7.5 million km 2 Is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest in the world THE AMAZON REGION

4. Its biological diversity is associated to a high level of endemism. Sustainable use and livelihoods The Amazon is the habitat of one third of the world’s species

5. Approximately 385 indigenous peoples and 71 references of isolated peoples More than 40 million of inhabitants

6. THE AMAZON COOPERATION TREATY Signed in 1978 Ratified by eight Amazonian countries

7. ACTO PERMANENT SECRETARIAT ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

8. ACTO’s STRATEGIC COOPERATION AGENDA Conservation and Sustainable use of renewable natural resources; Indigenous Affairs ; Knowledge Management and Information Sharing Regional Health Management; Infrastructure and Transport. Tourism; Institutional, Financial and Legal strenghtening; Emerging topics

9. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AMAZON STRATEGIC COOPERATION AGENDA

10. ACTO’s MAIN PARTNERS 10

11. PROJECTS 09 ongoing contracts (US$ 24,4M) 07 contracts executed (U$S 3M) 01 Project in preparation (US$ 13,3M) Annual contribution from member-countries US$ 1.7M (2012), US$ 2M (2014) and from 2016 on US$ 2,7M. 02 Technical Cooperation Agreements: 01 already concluded totalizing US$ 21M, and one in course until 2017, in the amount of US$ 12M 11 Project/Contract Amount (without counterpart) Origine (execution period) Situation Conclusion Integrated and Sustainable Management of Water Resources of the Amazon US$ 7.000.000 GEF/PNUMA (48 Months) ongoingDec/14 Environmental Health Surveillance System in the Amazon Region US$ 1.000.000 BID (55 months)ongoingJun/13 Protection of Indigenous People in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact US$ 1.000.000 BID (36 months)ongoingJan/14 Criteria and Indicators about the Forest’s Sustainability US$ 107.000,00OIMT (31 months)ongoingJun/13 Monitoring of the deforestation and changes in the use of the soil US$ 1.124.784 OIMT (24 months)ongoingJun/13 Management, monitoring and Control of wild fauna and flora species endangered by trade EU 10.000.000 KFW 48 months In preparation Dez/17 Ecologically Responsible Management of Managed Forests US$ 1.320.224OIMT (36 months)ongoingJan/16 Strengthening of the OTCA EU 441.358GIZ (24 months)ongoingDez/14 Regional Action in the Area of Water Resources R$ 1.860.00 ANA – Brasil (24 months) ongoingJul/14 Support to the Amazonian Social Agenda R$ 645.000 SAE – Brasil (24 months) ongoingDez/14 Monitoring of the Forest’s Cover in the Regional Amazon R$ 23.693.641BNDES – Amazonian Fund (60 months) To be contracted Jun/18

12. Evolution of the funding structure with resources from the Region itself (Technical Cooperation Projects by managed partner agencies were included to the figures below) 2010 2012 2013 2014 Total US$10M Total US$14M Total US$26M From US$13M to US$ 29M Total= US$ 42M 12 Internal External

13. Consolidate the ASCA work, ensuring a constant and direct participation of the MC in the regional meetings scheduled. Strengthen and support the Permanent National Commissions, institutionalized mechanisms of social participation in the Organization. Promote ACTO interaction with other regional and subregional organizations, identifying means for progressive joint coordination. Intensify cooperation in education, innovation, science and technology, implement and establish Amazon Observatory Research Centers Network. XII MEETING OF ACTO’s MINISTRIES OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DECLARATION OF EL COCA - ACTO’S STRATEGIC GUIDELINES

14. Encouraging dialogue in the area of ​​social inclusion, fight against poverty and extreme poverty eradication to mainstream the ASCA. Begin the discussion of a possible Productive Agenda in the Amazon. Promote the protection of traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and other tribal communities. Greater dynamism in the process of approval and implementation of projects, prioritizing actions that approximate ACTO to national and local authorities and to the Amazonian populations. XII MEETING OF ACTO’s MINISTRIES OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DECLARATION OF EL COCA - ACTO’S STRATEGIC GUIDELINES

15. Mandate awarded to ACTO in the XII Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, in Coca, Ecuador - RES/XII MRE-OTCA/05 Convene a meeting, as a initial activity, for the analysis and development of several concepts, such as “Food Sovereignty” and its relation to food security and the right to food. Boost the consolidation of food production thematic on the ASCA based on the development and strengthening of productive capabilities of Amazon’s local populations. FOOD SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY

16. A.Topic: Conservation, protection and sustainable use of renewable natural resources. A.5. Subtopic: Sustainable use of biodiversity and promotion of biotrade. Objective: Promote sustainable biodiversity use and conservation through regional actions that favor trade and investments in biodiversity products and services in the Member Countries of ACTO, with emphasis on value adding in the country of origin and fair and equitable benefit sharing, giving priority to local food safety development and food safety. B. Topic: Indigenous Affairs. B.4. Subtopic: New topics. iii. Food and nutritional security of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon FOOD SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY ON ACTO’S STRATEGIC AGENDA

17. C. Topic: Knowledge management and information sharing. food security Activities (medium term): vii. Create dialogue spaces regarding health and food security D. Topic: Regional health management. D.6 Determinants of Health in the Amazon Line 1: Nutrition. Activities (short term): nutritional programs i. Articulate nutritional programs focusing indigenous people and other tribal communities (growth and development studies). autoctonous food ii. Promote studies about the composition of nutrients in autoctonous food. nutritional health complementation of food iii. Promote programs to support the integral nutritional health of indigenous people and other communities including initiatives for the complementation of food with new and traditional autoctonous products. (continues…) FOOD SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY ON ACTO’S STRATEGIC AGENDA

18. Activities (medium and long term): nutritional health i.Coordinate the establishment and consolidation of support programs to the integral nutritional health of indigenous people and other tribal communities including initiatives for the complementation of food with new and traditional autoctonous products. H. Topic: Emerging Topics. Climate change, food security Activities ( médium term): x. Establish dialogue discussion spaces on health, food security and climate change. FOOD SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY ON ACTO’S STRATEGIC AGENDA

19. Food Security and Sovereignty Environment Indigenous Affairs Knowledge management and information sharing Regional Health Management Emerging Topics ACTO’S STRATEGIC AGENDA – CROSS-CUTTING AXES

20. NºActivityResultsTimelineResponsables ShortMediumLong 1 Identification of projects and or integral productive actions implemented in the Amazon to achieve food security and sovereignty Identified Projects and/or actions X 2 Restore, enhance, disseminate and exchange Amazonian peoples ancestral knowledge and technologies and its contribution to food security and sovereignty. Exchange of ancestral knowledge and technologies of the Amazonian people X 3 Systematize the researches on the productive potential of the Amazon region in order to generate information on the spatial distribution and biodiversity of Amazonian species to identify productive potential of Amazonian Populations. Potencialidades productivas de la región identificadas X 4 Strengthening the productive capacities in balance and harmony with nature in order to add value to Amazon products by implementing appropriate technologies, respecting local knowledge and aspirations. Strengthened productive capacities XX 5 Create opportunities for inter and extraterritorial productive coordination in the Amazon region. Articulation of the Amazonian populations XX 6Create a flexible, harmonious, homogenized, comprehensive, systemic, Certification System of Amazonian products. Certification System Created XX. Objective: Promote sustainable productive development Amazonian populations, by exploiting natural resources with respect and harmony with nature REGIONAL WORK PROPOSALS

21. FOOD SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY – FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (FAO) In 13-15 May 2013 FAO promoted the International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition, in Rome - Italy. More than 400 participants attended the conference, comprising experts from governments, civil-society organizations, indigenous and other local communities, donors and international organizations in more than 100 countries. According to the FAO: “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”.

22. THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has physical and economic Access at all times, to adequate food or means for it procurement. (1) (1) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Bolivia

23. UNASUR incorporated the theme Food Security and of Food Sovereignty to their agenda and workplan. Specific Objectives: “Identify critical social health determinants and promote intersectoral policies and actions on the theme, such as food security, healthy environment, climate change and others.” Meanwhile, the South American Council for Social Development created the thematic working group on Food Security and Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition, which, to date, has been developing, among others, the concept of food sovereignty. FOOD SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY – UNASUR AGENDA

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