FAME workshops will take place on 15 and 16 March at the Dock des Suds and the Cabaret Rouge (near Dock des Suds).

Thursday 15 March from 10am to 12.30pm

• The right to water and food security, Internationalisation of local water battles: Empowerment of local actors
• Water and Sanitation in major cities of Niger and Burkina Faso
• Mediterranean
• Community solutions for water management
• Local struggles against the plundering of the resource
• Alternatives to Privatization and New Meanings of Public (part 1)
• Water and Hydrocarbons

Thursday 15 March from 1pm to 3.30pm

• Neoliberal policies of international financial institutions
• Agriculture policy, water use and the sharing of water: Productivity-oriented agriculture and the water crisis: The PAC policy and the free market policy with emerging countries
• The Roma people and their access to water, sanitation and hygiene
• Decentralised cooperation
• The Water Cycle: Water as heritage; defense of the ecosystem and the rights of local populations
• Alternatives to Privatization and New Meanings of Public (part 2)
• Water and the mining industry in Latin America: Ecological disasters, social struggles (round table discussion 1).

Thursday 15 March from 3.30pm to 6pm

• Water: An obstacle to emancipation?
• Water policy and the unwarranted influence of multinationals
• Efficiency of direct public management
• Water, hygiene and sanitation: From the Comoros to the Comorian community in Marseille
• Water & health
• Water and Crime: Developing legislative tools to defend the right to water and penalize its irrational use
• European Citizen’s Initiative
• Alternatives to Privatization and New Meanings of Public (part 3)
• Water and the mining industry in Latin America: Ecological disasters, social struggles (round table discussion 2)

Friday 16 March from 10am to 12.30pm

• Preview of the Water Tribunal
• The right to water and food security, struggles and pleas
• Issues about Lake Chad, a major cross-border lake in the heart of Africa
• Sciences, Water & Media
• Public-public partnerships
• Water grabbing (in a bottle)
• We write water, we read democracy
• Water, shale gas and hydraulic fracturing (workshop)
• Access to sanitation, managed as a common good, using alternative techniques

Friday 16 March from 1pm to 3.30pm

• Preview of the Water Tribunal
• Local and democratic management of water and food sovereignty
• Rivers
• Economics, politics, law, culture and social sciences: Water issues & alternatives (part 1)
• Public water management models
• Resistance and struggle against privatisation
• Making the right to water effective
• Water and hydroelectric dams (round table discussion)
• Common goods against the commodification of life and of the planet, strategies and mobilisations of social and environmental movements  towards RIO+20 and beyond?

Friday 16 March from 3.30pm to 6pm

• Preview of the Water Tribunal
• The role of women in water management
• Palestine/Middle East
• Agriculture policy, water use and the sharing of water: Conditions for use, water conservation, regional specialisations
• Economics, politics, law, culture and social sciences: Water issues & alternatives (part 2)
• Public water management models
• Water and extractivism (round table conclusion)
• Water and Land in the Context of Climate Change: In the Search of Just Solutions
• Water and energy