Some such experiences and actions can be seen in the successful action to re-conquer the earth by the farmers in Brazil or Madagascar, the initiatives for education and
rural training of
women in Senegal or in the exemplary battles of the South - Korean
workers who demonstrated the possibility of constituting efficient inter-professional trade union organisations in the so - called emerging countries.
Agri - TNCs Network - Philippines, MASIPAG (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag - unlad ng Agrikultura), KMP (Kilusang Mangbubukid ng Pilipinas), PNSFP (Philippine Network for Food Security Programs), SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya), HEAD (Health action for Democracy), PAN Phils (Pesticide Action Network - Phils, TFIP (Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples Rights), CENDI (Community Entrepreneur Development Institute), SRD (Center for Sustainable
Rural Development), Vietnam, SPFT (Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand), AGRA (Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement), SERUNI National
Women's Alliance, Indonesia, NWFA (National
Women Farmers and
Workers Association), BAFLF (Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation), SHISUK (Shikha Shastha Unnayan Karzakram), Bangladesh, APVUU (Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union), ORRISSA (Organization for
Rural Reconstruction and Integrated Social Services Activities), CREATE, India THANAL, India, Save Our Rice Network, India, PAN-INDIA (Pesticide Action Network - India), India, GRAIN, PAN-AP (Pesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific), APC (Asian Peasants Coalition), Consumers Union of Japan,
Women's Development Federation WELIGEPOLA, MONLAR, Sri Lanka
They are representatives of peasant and family farmers, landless,
rural women and
rural youth, fishers and fish
workers, agricultural
workers, hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, indigenous peoples and food consumers.
She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance
workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class
women who train to become health
workers in
rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.