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ROUNDUP<\/strong><\/p>\n News, events, briefings and more…<\/strong><\/p>\n E C U A D O R<\/strong><\/p>\n New law<\/strong><\/p>\n On 17 February 2009, the National Assembly of Ecuador approved a Bill on food sovereignty, which aimed to ensure self-sufficiency in healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food for the people of the country. But the process received a setback on 20 March, when President Rafael Correa blocked several of the provisions of the new law, one of which stipulated that illegally acquired lands in coastal areas, including mangrove forests, should be handed back to the State. This about-face is reportedly due to pressure from Ecuador’s aquaculture lobby.<\/p>\n Despite the official recognition of the right to food as integral to the right to life and health, one in five Ecuadorian children still suffer from malnutrition. The new law on food sovereignty was meant to address this contradiction. It was the outcome of the deliberations of a Food Sovereignty Commission, composed of public functionaries and civil society representatives. The Commission was given a year to formulate legislation to address issues of land and rural development through a process of wide-ranging public consultation.<\/p>\n The new law specifies that lands illegally occupied, mainly by the aquaculture industry, should be handed back to the State for the rehabilitation of mangrove areas. This, according to Ab\u00e9l \u00c1vila, a parliamentarian, is evidence of the pressure and influence exercised by the shrimp lobby, which does not want the illegally occupied lands to revert to the State. \u0093We must not allow this illegal activity to be regularized, \u00c1vila stated.<\/p>\n The new law defines food sovereignty as the \u0093right of people to define their own food production, storage, distribution and consumption policies and strategies, in line with the right to adequate, healthy and nutritious food for the entire population, respecting their cultures and their diversity of food production methods, trade and the management of rural areas by campesinos, fishers and indigenous people, with women playing a fundamental role.<\/p>\n The main source of animal, vegetable, aquatic and fishery foods for food sovereignty should be from national production that is environmentally sustainable, inclusive and cross-cultural; with priority given to small- and medium-scale producers, so that dependence on external food supplies can be reduced. Artisanal fishing is defined as an activity \u0093carried out by people using family labour, with low levels of investment, and generally undertaken in coastal areas and lakes.<\/p>\n Hopefully, the course of the next year will see the full institution of the new law and its provisions, particularly the restoration and rehabilitation of mangrove areas. Supporters of the new law say that the State should not give with one hand, and take back with the other.<\/p>\n For More:<\/strong><\/p>\n Food Sovereignty website of Ecuador’s National Assembly W E B S I T E<\/strong><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.ccondem.org.ec\/boletin.php?c=594El<\/a> 21\/03\/2009 O R G A N I Z A T I O N A L P R O F I L E<\/strong><\/p>\n Ecoceanos <\/strong><\/p>\n Founded in 1998, the Ecoceanos Centre for Conservation and Sustainable Development is an independent civil society organization (CSO) based in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Its objectives include the conservation and sustainable management of coastal and oceanic ecosystems and resources; strengthening the informed and proactive participation of civil society in resource management; and the sustainable development of artisanal fishing and coastal communities and economies in the region.<\/p>\n Chile’s economy and the well-being of its people depend highly on the freshwaters, marine resources and ecosystems along its 4,200-km coastline. Ecoceanos campaigns to raise awareness on marine issues, and to mobilize civil society in defence of sustainable and equitable development.<\/p>\n Ecoceanos functions at national, regional and international levels, and works closely with fishing, coastal and indigenous people’s representatives. Over the last 10 years, Ecoceanos has campaigned against the privatization of fisheries and coastal resources through the implementation of the individual transferable quota (ITQ) system under the 2002 General Law on Fisheries and Aquaculture, and the transformation of the southern coastal areas into salmon enclaves.<\/p>\n In October 2008, the Presidential Decree that established the Chilean exclusive economic zone (EEZ) as a sanctuary for all whale species was the outcome of a long Ecoceanos campaign, conducted with the National Confederation of Artisanal Fishers (Conapach) and with the Cetacean Conservation Centre (CCC). It resulted in popular support for an indefinite ban on hunting of all cetaceans in an area of A campaign in the Patagonian region, supported by artisanal fishing groups and CSOs, called for a moratorium on the expansion of salmon aquaculture and the grant of 1,170 new concessions in the Magellan region of southern Chile, so as to regulate the salmon farming industry and protect marine biodiversity, public health and the rights of coastal communities and artisanal fishers.<\/p>\n Ecoceanos is also pushing ahead with a campaign to regulate the Antarctic krill fishery, as part of the Antarctic Krill Campaign of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC). The expanding krill fishery, targeted particularly by Norwegian companies, provides feed for Chile’s growing salmon aquaculture sector.<\/p>\n Ecoceanos has also taken an active role in discussions aimed at establishing a new Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RMFO) for the South Pacific. In 2007, as part of its work with the Deep Sea Coalition, Ecoceanos helped secure a ban on bottom-trawling operations in the high seas of the Southeast Pacific.<\/p>\n
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\nhttp:\/\/asambleanacional.gov.ec\/blogs\/soberania_alimentaria\/C-CONDEM<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMercurio \u0093Observaciones a ley de Soberan\u00eda Alimentaria<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.elmercurio.com.ec\/web\/titulares.php?seccion=LPdYzLB&<\/a>;codigo=9DyjgOO2xi&nuevo_mes=03&nuevo_ano=2009&dias=21\u00acicias=2009-03-21
\ncompiled by Brian O’Riordan<\/p>\n
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\n3.5 mn sq km in the Southeast Pacific.<\/p>\n