SEACON : The Southeast Asian Council for Food Security and Fair Trade

BILATERAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

A Research Project to look the impacts of Bilateral Free Trade Agreements in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia...

That decline in grain reserves, the measure of food security in event of drought or harvest failure - an increasingly common event in recent years - is pre-programmed to continue going as far ahead as the eye can see. Assuming a modest world population increase annually of some 70 million over the coming decade, especially in the South Asian subcontinent and Africa, the stagnation or even decline in the tonnages of feed corn or other feed grains, including rice, that is harvested annually as growing amounts of bio-ethanol and other biofuels displaces food grain in fact means we are just getting started on the greatest transformation of global agriculture since the introduction of the agribusiness revolution with fertilizers and mechanized farming after World War II.
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SEACON will participate in the ESCR-Net International Strategy Meeting tentatively scheduled from March 26-29, 2008, in Nairobi, Kenya.
The International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Meeting will focus on Trade, Investment, Finance and Human Rights....

The Southeast Asian Council for Food Security and Fair Trade (SEACON) was created in 1996 to provide a coordinated approach to food security, agriculture and trade issues. In each of our member countries, we support people-centred national based on food security councils that enable government, private sector and civil society representatives to meet and dialog on agriculture and trade issues.

SEACON is seeking an Intern in the area of trade, human rights and food security. Internship Program starts in March 2008, and will be available throughout the year....