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1. Course of Establishment
APLA was established in May 2008 and applied for corporate status as a Non-Profit Organization. It consists of regular and associate members each having group and individual members.
APLA was established to strengthen and develop efforts which Japan Committee for Negros Campaign (JCNC) had achieved in twenty years of its history. Therefore, APLA has succeeded various experiences JCNC made in assisting family farmers for their self reliance in the island of Negros, the Philippines.
2. Visions
Globalization caused not only economic gap between “the South and the North”, but , gaps and conflicts are seen everywhere on the earth and in every society. Difficulties are most passed to the weak, food safety and food security are more vulnerable, and people's living is getting worse. APLA believes that independence and self reliance of the state and big corporate players through centering the idea of communities based on sustainable agriculture will be essential for people. APLA will take an active part to create fields where global people, the marginalized in particular, gather, share wisdom, and enhance solidarity to envision and seek for our own alternative community.
3. Action Programs
- To support activities of community building with the idea of local production for local consumption in Negros/Northern Luzon(the Philippines), East Timor and East Java(Indonesia).
- To Facilitate interactions of farmers from different regions and countries, interactions between rural and urban communities, and women in particular.
- To enhance solidarity among producers, consumers, and producer communities.
- To take more active engagement in social movements and advocacy either local and global against globalization by the establishment.
- To strengthen research and analysis, and to produce visual and educative tools.
- To send out information and messages locally and globally through bulletins, booklets, websites.
- To sell to individuals items imported by Alter Trade Japan, Inc. and by other fair-trade organizations.
- To plan study tours and interaction tours.
- To organize local and international gatherings and forums.
- To engage in emergency actions for collection of contribution to natural and man made calamities.
As we see in the current global food crisis, globalization most impacts the weakest and the poorest. And wealth and livings of citizens in the “North” are dependent on the exploited “South”.
APLA is an NGO facilitating interactions and solidarity among peoples for community building centered with the idea of sustainable agriculture, and there people will together share wisdom, create ideas for alternative community.
Japan collect and purchase a big amount of food from all over the world and our living relies on such economic structure. We, Japanese citizens living in current globalized world, cannot help changing our way of life and seeking for the way to live with other people, people in the South in particular.
Not aid, but to seek for solutions for equitable sharing together as united friends. This will be the future of our own.
