<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">At the risk of duplication -- some of you may have received this already through other mailing groups -- below is information about an initiative which may be of interest.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">You may wish to be in touch directly with Pierre Ferrand (<a href="mailto:ferrand@gret.org">ferrand@gret.org</a>) or Lucie Reynaud (<a href="mailto:reynaud@gret.org">reynaud@gret.org</a>) for</font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> further information. You can also check the </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">dropbox folder, </span><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Agroecology photo</b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>.</b> </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">CHUCK SEARCY</span></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><font color="#741b47"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">================</span></span></font></b></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><b><font color="#741b47"></font></b></div><b><font color="#741b47">===============================<br></font></b><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#741b47">CHUCK SEARCY<br></font></b><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#741b47">International Advisor, Project RENEW<br></font></b><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#741b47">Tư Vấn Viên Quốc tế, Dự án RENEW<br></font></b><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#741b47">Co-Chair, NGO Agent Orange Working Group<br></font></b><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#741b47">Đồng Chủ tịch, Nhóm làm việc Phi chính phủ về Chất độc da cam<br></font></b><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#741b47">71 Trần Quốc Toản, Hà Nội, Việt Nam<br></font></b><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#741b47">Mobile: +849
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="FR" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><br></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Pierre Ferrand <<a href="mailto:ferrand@gret.org" target="_blank">ferrand@gret.org</a>> wrote:</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dear all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Following my last message, kindly be informed that the dropbox folder (<b>Agroecology photo</b>) has been set up and I hope you have all received the dropbox invitation. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Should you have any problem uploading pictures on dropbox or accessing this folder, please do not hesitate to contact me.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Lastly, in order to duly respect photo credits, kindly name them appropriately (at least organization name and short title). Feel free to send me as well additional information in separate email regarding your photos or the project in general.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Looking forward to hearing back from you and further exchanging about agroecology,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Pierre Ferrand</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:89.3pt"><td width="704" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:527.75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;height:89.3pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Pierre Ferrand</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Regional Coordinator <b>A</b>groecology <b>L</b>earning all<b>i</b>ance in <b>S</b>outh <b>E</b>ast <b>A</b>sia (ALiSEA) </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Towards Agroecology Transition in the Mekong Region Project (ACTAE)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tel </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> +856 (0) 20 56 743 108<br><b>skype </b>: pferrand34</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:63.75pt"><td width="190" valign="top" style="width:142.55pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;height:63.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><img border="0" width="80" height="80" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D0B4B2.31954970" alt="GRET"></span></p></td><td width="514" valign="top" style="width:385.2pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;height:63.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray">Gret Laos</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray">PO Box 24 83, Vientiane, Lao PDR</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><img border="0" width="90" height="18" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D0B4B2.31954970" alt="Site"></span><img border="0" width="90" height="18" src="cid:image004.png@01D0B4B2.31954970" alt="www.gret.org"></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">De :</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Pierre Ferrand [</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ferrand@gret.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">mailto:ferrand@gret.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">] <br><b>Envoyé :</b> mercredi 1 juillet 2015 15:19<br><b>À :</b> <br><b>Objet :</b> Follow up on your participation to consultation workshop addressing Agroecology Transition in the Mekong Region</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dear all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">You (or your organization) have taken part to a consultation process organized by Gret and addressing <b>Agroecology Transition in the Mekong Region</b> in <b>2013</b>. During the different workshops organized in Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Yangon and Vientiane, you have shown a great interest in the emergence of an <b>“Agro-ecological Learning Alliance in South East Asia”</b>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">I’m very glad to inform you that after a long negotiation process, this regional project has finally been approved and is slowly getting started. The regional coordination of this project will be located in Vientiane, Lao PDR, but we expect to conduct workshops, studies and activities in all 4 countries that have been selected (<b>Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam</b>). However, it is expected to include as much as possible other GMS countries, especially <b>Thailand</b>, since we are fully aware of the dynamic initiatives happening on the ground over there. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">I take the opportunity of this message to introduce myself. My name is Pierre Ferrand. I will be working on this new project as regional coordinator for the Agro-ecological Learning Alliance in South East Asia (ALiSEA). I am an agronomist with tropical agriculture and rural development background. I have spent over 5 years in Myanmar (from 2006 to 2011) working on several agriculture and value chain development projects, and then about 4 years in Gret Headquarters in Paris (2011-2015) as Project officer for Agricultural Development and Agrifood Commodity Chains. I am now based in Vientiane but will travel rather often in the Mekong region. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">The consultation process that took place in 2013 helped mapping potential partners and key stakeholders in the field of agroecology across the Mekong region. As a result, a total of <b>118 NGOs, research organizations, government agencies, private companies</b> with a diversity of experiences (Organic Agriculture, Conservation Agriculture, Agroforestry, SRI, IPM,…) were involved in the different workshops. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">We are currently finalizing a <b>publication</b> presenting the <b>main findings of these workshops</b>. This document is organized in 3 main parts. Section I takes stock of the diversity of practices, actors and experiments related to the main schools identified in the different countries: organic farming, IPM and integrated crop management, home gardens and VAC, SRI, Conservation Agriculture, Agroforestry. In Section II, the authors point out common challenges and issues at stake for scaling agroecology up in the region. Section III testifies to the interest of regional stakeholders for promoting synergies through networking in order to foster scaling up and visibility of agroecology in the region.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">This publication will be disseminated all across the Mekong region very soon. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">In an attempt to raise the visibility of all stakeholders involved in agroecology and to make this document very attractive, we would like to kindly <b>invite all of you to share with us nice photos illustrating your activities in the field of the 6 different agroecology schools</b> that were identified: Organic farming, IPM and integrated crop management, home gardens and VAC, SRI, Conservation Agriculture, Agroforestry. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">All photo credits /copyright will be duly respected. I will share with you in another message a link toward a dropbox folder in order to send your photos.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Looking forward to hearing back from you and having the opportunity to meet you in order to discuss further about the agroecology transition in the Mekong region,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Best regards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Pierre Ferrand</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:87.1pt"><td width="835" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:626.2pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;height:87.1pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Pierre Ferrand</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Regional Coordinator <b>A</b>groecology <b>L</b>earning all<b>i</b>ance in <b>S</b>outh <b>E</b>ast <b>A</b>sia (ALiSEA) </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Towards Agroecology Transition in the Mekong Region Project (ACTAE)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tel </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> +856 (0) 20 56 743 108<br><b>skype </b>: pferrand34</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:62.2pt"><td width="226" valign="top" style="width:169.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;height:62.2pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="80" height="80" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D0B4B2.31954970" alt="GRET"></p></td><td width="609" valign="top" style="width:457.05pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;height:62.2pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray">Gret Laos</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray">PO Box 24 83, Vientiane, Lao PDR</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="90" height="18" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D0B4B2.31954970" alt="Site"><img border="0" width="90" height="18" src="cid:image004.png@01D0B4B2.31954970" alt="www.gret.org"></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div>
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