First among these activities is the two-day, multi-event "Asserting Food Sovereignty" scheduled on January 21-22. This event will include public forums, speak out, simultaneous workshops and a  ƒâ€š  mobilization/People's March for Food Sovereignty. Co-organizers include People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS), Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), Kenyan Debt Relief Network (KENDREN), Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), Food Trade and Nutrition Coalition (FTN), Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI), Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM Kenya), PELUM Zambia, Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum (KESSFF),  ƒâ€š  Sustainable Agriculture Community Development Programme (SACDEP Kenya), Kenya Organic Farmers Association (KOFA),  ƒâ€š  Kenya Institute of Organic Farming (KIOF), Network for Ecofarming in Africa (NECOFA), and Tanzanian Plantation and Agricultural Worker's Union.

On January 22, APRN will also participate in the event "Illegitimate Debt and Global Trade". This will take place at the Ecumenical Pavilion from 11am - 1pm. Co-organizers to the event are Norwegian Church Aid, AFRODAD, ROA, and African Council of Churches.

Lastly, APRN will join the event "Strategies for Campaign on Dictator and Illegitimate Debt: Sharings on Liberia, DRC, and the Philippines" in the afternoon of January 24. Event co-organizers are AFRODAD, Kendren, and Reality of Aid.

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