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Tuenjai Deetes

THAILAND--Taking Action for the World’s Poor and Hungry People--

Beijing, China October 17-19, 2007

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POOR: •lacking material possessions; having little or no means to support oneself; needy; impoverished

•the simple, direct term for one who lacks the resources for reasonably comfortable living.BUT: that’s all physical poor

Definition

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Mentally poor is other thing:

•not money •it’s living with nature “take care of nature, nature will take care us” •balancing with nature, spiritual, wealth •Sufficient economy (Our King’s Philosophy)

Definition

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FOOD: noun•any substance taken into and assimilated by a plant or animal to keep it alive and enable it to grow and repair tissue; nourishment; nutriment •Food is the general term for all matter that is taken into the body for nourishmentBUT: that’s all physical FOOD

Mentally FOOD :•Not substance, but Wisdom, Perception Food

•Have presence of mind, sensible, be conscious

•Balancing with nature, spiritual, wealth

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Mentally FOOD

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Start working with the underprivileged people

They believed that nature is holy and given from god, such as:

•Ganga, Hindu Goddess of the Holy River•Saraswati, in recent times a goddess of

knowledge, music and the arts

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•After green evolution and industrial era, many people changed to believe the nature is only raw material for things.

•As of NGO and Politician, I am are strongly believed that I am currently working with the physical underprivileged people but rich mentally. Rich in wisdom to live humanized with nature. (Small farmer, small fisherman)

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• As of Ashoka fellow of Thailand, we are working to rejuvenate the resources such as forest, water source, and wet land.

•This will bring the knowledge from indigenous people to action and eventually change society from consuming society to simple life society

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Humanity and Wisdom

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Thailand

•Thai people already know that nature and capable of using and living with the nature: so to say use nature under the carry capacity.

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•As of NGO and Politician of Thailand, we are proposing bill toward food security and food sovereignty.

• UNESCO, UNDP, UNFAO, UNICEF, UNEP.

•International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. • World Mountain People• MDGs

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•NOW:: Foods are filled with process industrial ingredients such as Flavor, Whitening (Sodium Hydrosulfite), Preservatives, Mono Sodium Glutamate.

• We are promoting toward good variety and non-toxic food (organic food). This policy is pushing by Ministry of Public Health

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Program: Grow vetiver grass for the preservation of top soil and increase soil fertility.

Action Plan:

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Program: leveling down the use of chemical use in agriculture industry--- Better FOOD

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Law: protect waershed area, maximization use of natural resources, and community forest bill.

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Network: small farmer group, small fisherman network, and local political group

These will help small people to have access to policy level person.

Increase in Transparency, Check and Balance, accountibility and strengthen people’s politics.

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Preserve and develop indigenous seeds, plants, animal

These will further help nourish Biodiversity

Promoting human rights for ethnic minority group, immigrant and refugees.

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Corporate with local community environmental NGOs, Parliamentarians, and goverments to help rejuvenate international river such as Mae Khong, Salween river for food security poverty reduction and peace.

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