The dialogue between various stakeholders was particularly dynamic and fruitful in the various Special Thematic Sessions held during the conference. Not less than 27 Special Thematic Sessions were organised by NGOs, civil society organisations or networks, universities, governments or international organisations (FAO, IFAD, IFPRI, UNDP, World Bank, etc.). Eleven sessions related to specific country or regional experiences (in Brazil, India, South Africa and other regions of Africa, Asia, the Pacific or Eastern Europe). Other sessions discussed agrarian reform or rural development issues from the point of view of specific groups: women (2 sessions on 8 March), the rural poor, indigenous peoples, youth, mountain populations, networks on rural development issues; or related to a specific development problem: land rights, organic agriculture, traditional farming systems, research, sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD). One session also discussed issues regarding indicators for agrarian reform and rural development and the related mechanisms for the collection and analysis of appropriate data sets.

List of Special Thematic Sessions

ICARRD STS List 6 March: doc

Programme of Special Thematic Sessions

ICARRD STS Programme 3 March: doc
ICARRD Special Thematic Session Interest Form

Titles:

The language we have to talk with the Mountain Areas
Session organized by the Swiss Government and The Adelboden Group
Available: doc

Biodiesel: energy and social inclusion
Session organized by the Government of Brazil
Available: doc

The experience of the “Foro Mundial sobre la Reforma Agraria-FMRA” (Valencia/Spain, December 2004)
Session organized by CERAI, España and AGTER, Francia
Available: doc

From the Peasant Charter to the ICARRD: An Overview of the Current Trends and Emerging Issues in Rural Development in the Asia-Pacific Region
Session organized by the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP)
Available: doc

Direito à Moradia e Territórios Étnicos: proteção legal dos quilombos no Brasil
Session organized by Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
Available: doc

Land Rights of Indigenous Women
Session organized by Consult for Women and Land Rights
Available: doc

Farmers’ empowerment through scientific literacy leading to poverty reduction strategies using participatory groundwater management
Session organized by FAO India and APFAMGS Project
Available: doc  

Secure forest tenure for sustainable forest management and poverty alleviation in South East Asia
Session organized by FAO Forestry Department
Available: doc

Mechanisms for follow-up and Indicators on Rural Development
Session organized by FAO Rural Development Division (SDA)
Avalaible: doc

The Privatisation of Land and Land Consolidation in the Transitional Economies Session organized by FAO Rural Development Division (SDA)
Available: doc

Empowering the rural poor through access to land
Session organized by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Available: doc

The contribution of Organic Agriculture to Rural Development
Session organized by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
Available: doc

Securing Rights to Natural Resources: From Research to Policy
Session organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the
CGIAR Systemwide Initiative on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
Available: doc

Administering Land Rights: Alternatives to Individual Property Ownership
Session organized by the International Land Coalition (ILC)
Available: doc

Engaging Governments and Civil-Society: the Experience of National and Regional Networks
Session organized by The International Land Coalition (ILC)
Abailable: doc

Land, poverty, social justice and development: what’s next?
Session organized by the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands
Inter-Church Co-operation Organization (ICCO) and UNDP
Available: doc

Agrarian Reform – not without young people
Session organized by the International Movement of Agricultural and Rural Catholic Youth (MIJARC)
Available: doc

Allocating House-and-Garden Plots as a Land Reform Measure in India
Session organized by the Rural Development Institute and the FAO India Representative Office
Available: doc 

Building a cooperation network through the LEADER approach
Session organized by the Spanish Network for Rural Development (REDR)
in cooperation with The European Leader Association for Rural Development (ELARD)
Available: doc

Accelerating Land Reform in South Africa
Session organized by the Department of Land Affairs, South Africa and the World Bank
Available: doc

Land Redistribution in South Africa: Towards Accelerated Implementation
Available: ppt

Optimization of agricultural production while protecting natural ecosystems: the case of Southern Brazil
Session organized by The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Faculdade de Agronomia
Available: doc

Land Rights Reform and Governance in Africa: How to make it work in the 21st Century?
Session organized by UNDP Drylands Development Centre and UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
Available: doc

Technical economic proposals to solve the problem of pasture degradation.
Session organized by The Passo Fundo University
Available: doc

Enhancing women’s leadership and transforming organizations for sustainable rural development
Session organized by Women Organising for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) in collaboration with ActionAid International
Available: doc 

Access to land, livestock production and ecosystem conservation in the Brazilian Campos Biome: the natural grasslands dilema - A view from Embrapa Southern Brazil Research Center for Animal Production Systems 
Available: doc
Available: ppt

Produção animal com responsabilidade ambiental
Zélia Maria de Souza Castilhos
Available: doc

La Posición del INCRA
Leonardo Melgarejo
Available: doc

Situación Actual y Estrategias para la  Producción Ganadera  Sustentable de los Sistemas Pastoriles del Bioma Campos en Argentina y Uruguay.
Available: doc

Understanding Forest Tenure: What rights  and for Whom?
Francesca Romano
Forestry Policy and Institutions Service FAO
Available: ppt

Land Reform and Poverty Reduction
A Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
Available: ppt  

Poverty Reduction Strategies and Land Reform Models: Multilaterals, the State and Civil Society
Terry McKinley, UNDP
Available: ppt

Land Rights Reform and Governance in Africa How to make it work in the 21st Century?
United Nations Development Programme                      
Available: doc

Land, poverty, social justice and development: what's next?
Armenia: pdf
Bolivia: pdf
Brazil: pdf
Organizers: Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Netherlands
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Inter-Church Co-operation Organization (ICCO)