Workshop on "Mirror Reflecting the Health of Farmer: Health Impact Assessment for Farmer" organized during 4-5 March 2003 at Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University . The participants consisted of farmers from Northern Regional Network, public officers relating to agriculture, lecturers, students, researchers, academics and NGOs. Basic principle of HIA, risk assessment from agrochemical use, and the concept of sustainable agriculture were presented in this event. All participants were allowed to exchange the experience and to brainstorm about agricultural issues such as the impact of agrochemical use, the solutions for agricultural problems, the strength and the weakness of sustainable agriculture
The First Meeting of ARDPN on "Public Policy Supporting Sustainable Agricultural System" was organized on 25 March 2003 . According to the meeting, it was found that the policy space was not opened to sustainable agriculture so the ARDPN should run this movement in the social domain instead. Under the belief that social mechanism would finally give the pressure for policy changes into healthier one, the strengthening and expanding of alliances was a crucial task to meet healthier agricultural policy. Two common strategic policies were the outcome of this meeting - 1) the independence of small scale farmer to design their job 2) the equity right of people organizations to use national budget for running agricultural movement through public policy such as regional forum and health assembly on agrochemicals.
