The concern of the International Community about traffic and consumption of illicit declared drugs is growing. Behind this problematic are placed the peasant and indian communities of Africa, Latin America and Asia involved in the agricultural production of such plants. Millions of people are living or surviving today thanks such agriculture, those people are obtaining the minor benefits from the whole chain of international drugs traffic.

In present days, well into the 21 century after hundred years of Conventions that illegalized the drug plants and their producers, applied repressive policies attempting in several cases against the Human Rights (forced eradications, arbitrary detentions, fumigations, etc.) the problem did not diminished, but growled to very high levels.

Under present facts, many personalities and institutions decided to invoice a First Global Forum to broach the problematic of those who are forced to surviving producing crops declared to be illicit .

This First Global Forum of Producers of Crops Declared to be Illicit (FMPCDI) will take place January the 29th, 30th and 31st 2009 in Barcelona.

In it, there will be a meeting of around 60 leaders of producers coming from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe, who are devoted to the cultivation of plants which are declared to be illicit, like cannabis, poppy and coca leaf. Besides, the Forum will be attended by 20 international experts on this issue -researchers, NGO representatives, multilateral international associations, cooperation entities, etc.-

The FMPDI is expected to be a dialogue space were participants interchange their experiences, broach problematic, think over situations and to outline the future processes. Is desirable that the agrarian and social organizations, experts, NGO`s, governmental institutions coming from all the continents, studies the production of crops declared to be illicit, focusing the possibilities to find the required solutions and whorty ways for the peasants and indian peoples producers, respecting their human rights and creating the conditions for their sustainable development.

The conclusions of the Forum will be articulated in a Manifesto that will be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session –UNGASS- on Countering World Drug Problem, to be held in March 2009 in Wien. In it, international strategies against this kind of crops will be decided, and the voice of the peasants must be listened.

The International Promotion Committee of this First Global Forum of Producers of Crops Declared to be Illicit (FMPCDI) want to call on international organisations, associations and trade unions, governments and civil society in general, to acknowledge the seriousness of the situation of affected populations by supporting this initiative.