Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP)
The undersigned, constituting "The Steering Committee", acting on behalf of small farmers (families) of controlled plants, from all geographical regions in the world, along with civil society organizations, academics and experts on drug policies and rural sustainable development, adhere and proclaim the organization of a Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP)
As one of the most affected populations of global and local supply control policies, designed to undermine the market of plant based psychoactive substances, farmers representatives and their allies will address at this forum the results, implications and alternatives concerning:
- Forced crop eradication;
- Traditional/ Medicinal/ Alternative uses of controlled plants;
- Sustainable Rural Development and political economy;
- Drugs and Conflict
All these topics will be addressed from a Human Rights perspective.
The outcome of the Forum will be fed into aiming at influencing the outcomes of the United Nations General Assambly Special Session (UNGASS), that will address global drug policies, to be celebrated in New York in April 2016.
At the same time, the forum will be used to construct and consolidate networks of regional and interregional exchange between grassroots organizations of farmers and their organizations and other stakeholders to be vocal in stemming the drug policy debate into one that aims at sustainable solutions to the issue.
We call upon the world community and affected populations, academia, policymakers and funding agencies to support us in our strive to make this 2nd World Forum happen.
Oscar Baez Soto (México); Pedro Arenas García (Observatorio de Cultivos Declaradas ilícitas) y Cesar Jerez (Asociación de Zonas de Reservas Campesinas-ANZORC) Colombia; Ricardo Soberón Garrido (Centro de Estudios de Drogas y Derechos Humanos CIDDH) y Serafín Lujan (Confederación Nacional de Productores Agropecuarios de las Cuencas Cocaleras del Perú- CONPACCP), Peru; Coletta Youngers (Washington Office on Latin America WOLA), USA; Simeon Pottinger and Lloyd Narciss (The Ganja Future Growers And Producers Asociation) Jamaica; Spirit Cotler Junior (St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cannabis Revivial Committee: SVGCRC); Abdellatif Adebibe Confédération des Associations de Sanhaja du Rif pour le développement) Morroco; Sai Lone (FarmersForum) Myanmar; Myrtle Clark (Fields of Green for All), South Africa; Tom Kramer y Pien Metaal (Transnational Institute TNI), Netherlands; Javier Gonzales Skaric y Dionisio Nuñez, Bolivia
