DISPLACEMENT IN SOUTH AND IN FINLAND

Various development projects, such as large-scale hydroelectric dams, monoculture plantations, roads, airports, mining projects and the acquisition of farmland by foreign companies, are resulting the increased displacement of thousands of poor people all across the developing world. Another cause of involuntary displacement relates to environmental problems, especially climate change, which is causing the increased occurrence of droughts and floods that force people to migrate to other regions, countries, or even continents.


Seminar 10-11 June 2010: Displacement induced by Environmental Problems and Development

Siemenpuu Foundation organised an international seminar on “Displacement induced by Environmental Problems and Development” in Helsinki 10-11 June 2010. The purpose of the seminar was to present different causes of displacement of people in the developing world and in Finland, and then to discuss and work on solutions and alternatives to displacement.

The seminar speakers were activists and researchers and they came from Finland and from South, from all of Siemenpuu Foundation’s cooperation countries and regions.

You can download the seminar programme and the presentations here. You will find more comprehensive report of the Displacement seminar at the website of Siemenpuu Foundation in September 2010.

The theme Displacement has been chosen as the focus of the information-sharing work of Siemenpuu Foundation for the years 2011-2012.


The programme of the Displacement seminar pdf to be downloaded as all the presentation below if not market otherwise

Thursday 10.06.2010

Session I - INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Ms. Suman Koreti, Parivartan, India: India’s Adivasis experiences: whose development in question?

Mr. Jan Saijets, Finnish Reindeer Sámi Association, Finland: Forestry - a serious threat to Sámi culture

Session II - FOOD SOVEREIGNTY vs. AGRIBUSINESS

Mr. Carlos Vicente, Acción por la Biodiversidad, Argentina: Subsistence agriculture vs. agribusiness in Latin America (in Spanish)

Mr. Pen Raingsey, NGO Forum on Cambodia: Land Grabbing in Cambodia

Mr. Zainuri Hasyim, Mitra Insani, Indonesia: The expansion of the oil palm and pulp plantations in Indonesia

Mr. Jukka Lassila, Lassila farm, Finland: Organic farming in Finland: a farmer’s perspective (in Finnish

Friday 11.06.2010

Session III - MINING AND DAMS

Mr. Prafulla Samantara, India: Mining and displacement of local communities in India

Ms. Premrudee Daoroung, TERRA, Thailand: Dams and displacement of local people in the Mekong region

Mr. Tuomo Tormulainen, Anti Uranium Campaign, Northern Carelia, Finland: Uranium mining in Eastern and Northern Finland

Session IV  - CLIMATE CHANGE

Mr. Bakary Doumbia, Kilabo, Mali: Immigration from Mali to Europe due the Climate Change (in French)

Mr. Rajendra Prasad, Peoples Action for Development, India: Climate change and the coastal communities in Tamil Nadu

Ms. Tuuli Kaskinen, Demos Helsinki, Finland: Finnish climate policy and climate refugees