Stakeholder's Meeting with LSF

The Lok Sanjh Foundation organized a stakeholder's meeting at head office Islamabad.The title of the meeting was "Food Security in Changing Climate". This meeting was chaired by Dr. Wasim-ul-Hassan ( Food Security Commissioner), the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Islamabad. In this meeting, representatives of Pakistan Agriculture Research Center (PARC), National Agriculture Research Center (NARC), Action Aid and C2D participated.

Lok Sanjh Foundation Visits AJK University

Lok Sanjh Foundation - a leading non-governmental organization of Pakistan (pioneer in organic agriculture) and AJK University signed an MOU on February 11, 2013 in Muzafferabad to train university staff and grassroots level farmers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Delivering the speech about the MoU, Dr. Dilnawaz Gerdezi ( Vice Chancellor ) praised the agreement with Lok Sanjh as a "shining example of AJKU-NGO cooperation between the educational and social development. He said that "My University is committed to learning from Lok Sanjh's experiences in promoting the organic agriculture at its lands of AJK University Chella Bandi Campus. And these will transform the present campus into a GREEN Campus soon.
Mr. Farooq Khan, Deputy Executive Director of Lok Sanjh at this occasion said that “both the organization will benefit particularly students of the AJK University would intern in rural development organization like Lok Sanjh to learn how organic agriculture can help the AJK people toface up the socio-economic challenges with small scale agriculture.

Forum on Peoples Rice Policy

The stake holders meeting was conducted on Climate change and food security in Toba take Singh office at dated 28-02-2013.The meeting was start at 12:15 pm with recitation of Holy Quran. After the recitation of Quran, all participants were introduced in meeting. In this stakeholders meeting the following are the major persons who were participated.
Prof. Dr. Zia ur rehman principal from AUF TTS campus
Mr.Haji Rauf Hussain District food Controller officer
Muhammad Rashid President of Kisan Board
Sadaqat Srdar Area Coordinator from Caritas Pakistan
M Waseem from Pakistan Kisan Trust
M Usman from WWF Pakistan
Muhammad Haneef President AlKhidmat Foundation
Muhammad Iqbal Doctor MBBS
Over all 28 Persons were participated in this meeting included farmer. They were all discussed on Climate change and food Security

Developing Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainable Development

Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR) invited Dr. Shahid Zia, Managing Director, Lok Sanjh Foundation, as a key note speaker in a 'Dialogue for Development (DfD) seminar entitled" Developing Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainable Development " on 5th November 2012. A large number of students, researchers and faculty members of the university participated in the seminar.

While speaking on the subject Dr. Shahid Zia said that " people believe that manifesto for democracy is developed by political parties in Pakistan and normally democracy and sustainable development are discussed in separate frameworks. The current system of democracy is based on poor levels of participation and engagement of peopole. It depends with short termisim in which politicians try to develop and deliver with their own agenda to win the next election. As a result various other aspects of the economy and society are neglected and marginalized people become more poor and rich more richer. Hence they are poorly prepared for other challenges like climate change, resource scarcity, good governance, an aging and growing population etc. A well structured democratic system based of full participation of people is essential for dealing with such challenges in Pakistan.