WFP Director, Fatima Shabodien facilitated a provincial strategy workshop of the Alliance of the Land and Agrarian Reform Movements (ALARM) on 17 May 2008. The workshop took place in the rural town of Saron and was attended by more than 50 representatives of local land rights groups, NGOs, advice offices and farm worker trade unions. The workshop developed a provincial strategy for resisting on-going evictions, mobilising for effective land reform and responding to the unfolding food crisis. At the workshop, a provincial ALARM coordinating committee was elected.