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IPC members – their roles and functions

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The IPC serves as a facilitation mechanism for diffusion of information on, and capacity building for, food sovereignty and food security issues. It is not a centralised structure and does not claim to represent its members and the wider movement. Instead, it is a regionally-based Network with constituency and thematic representation in its membership. Its members include grassroots social movements. Its legitimacy is based on its ability to be the interlocutor for the concerns and the battles which a broad diversity of civil society organisations and social movements are conducting daily in their practical and advocacy work at local, national, sub-regional, regional and global levels.
The IPC Liaison Office in Rome, acts as the international secretariat of the Network, facilitating its activities.

Organisation of the network

· Regionally-based in order to strengthen the debate on food sovereignty at national and regional levels;
· Inclusion of the major social constituencies and wide range of social movements in order to strengthen the food sovereignty debate at all levels;
· Thematic focal points in order to strengthen policy debate on key issues within civil society at national, regional and international levels.

IPC focal points worldwide

International Focal Point:
Crocevia (Italy)

Regional Focal Points:

Sub-Saharan Africa:
CNOP-CAM (Concertation National des Organisations Paysannes du Cameroun, Central Africa)
KENFAP (Kenya Federation of Agricultural Producers, East Africa)
ROPPA (Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs agricoles de l’Afrique de l’Ouest, West Africa - francophone)
USMEFAN (Union of Small & Medium scale Farmers of Nigeria, West Africa - anglophone)

East Asia / South East Asia / Pacific:
ANGOC (Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, Philippines)
CACPK (Citizens’ Alliance for Consumer Protection of Korea)
Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance (Phillippines)
FSF (Federation of Southern Fisherfolk, Thailand)
KMP (Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas)
Tenaganita Sdn. (Malaysia)
PAN-Asia (Pesticide Action Network, Malaysia)
South Asia
IMSE (Institute for Motivating Self Employment, India)
ANPA (All Nepal Peasants Association)
BAFLF (Bangladesh Agriculture Farm Labour Federation)
NAFSO (National Federation of Fishworkers, Sri Lanka)

West and Central Asia and North Africa (WESCANA):
APN (Al-Arabyyah for the Protection of Nature, Jordan)
APNEK (Association for the Protection of Nature and Environment – Kairouan, Tunisia)
CENESTA (Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment, Iran)
Green Line (Lebanon)
Naurzum (Kazakhstan)

Latin America / Caribbean:
ANAMURI (Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Rurales e Indígenas, Chile)
CONAPACH (Confederación Nacional de Pescadores Artesanales, Chile)
CONAMUCA (Coordinación Nacional de Mujeres del Campo, Rep. Dominicana)
CONTAG (Movimiento de la Juventud Kuna (Panama)
Brazil)
MAELA (Movimento Agroecológico de América Latina y Caribe, Chile)
MIJARC (Movimiento Internacional de la Juventud Agrícola y Rural Brazil)
MJK (Movimiento de la Juventud Kuna, Panamá)

Europe (EU and East and Central European Countries):
CSA, (Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires, Belgique)

North America:
Conseil canadien de pêcheurs professionnels (Canada)
Toronto Food Policy Council (Canada)

Constituencies Focal Points:
Farmers: IFAP (International Federation of Agricultural Producers); Via Campesina
Fisherfolk: ICSF (International Collective in Support of Fish Workers); WFF (World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers); WFFP (World Forum of Fisher Peoples)
Indigenous Peoples: IITC (International Indian Treaty Council)
Youth Organizations: MIJARC (International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth)
Trade Unions: IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations)

Thematic Focal Points:
Right to Food : FIAN International (FoodFirst Information and Action Network)
Agricultural Production Models: AS-PTA (Assessoria e Serviços a Projetos em Agricultura Alternativa, Brazil)
Access to/ management of Genetic Resources: ETC Group (Erosion, Technology and Concentration Group); ITDG (Intermediate Technology Development Group); GRAIN (Genetic Resources Action International)
Trade and Food sovereignty: IATP (USA)

Contacts

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