This month I will be headed to India to support the work of the Global Gathering of Women Pastoralists. I will be doing my best to blog regularly from the Gathering. ...

  [caption id="" align="alignright" width="110" caption="Still a fan of the SRRTF"][/caption] Yesterday I uploaded a post called" Why the "UN body fails to back "land grabs" code of conduct" (apologies for the...

I just realised I have made reference to the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure and the Principles on Responsible Investment in Agriculture. Here are the links to the two processes: Principles for...

The renewed Committee on World Food Security requires a framework to provide an instrument to enhance the role of the CFS as a platform to improve cooperation, coordinated action and guidance towards partnerships to support country, regional and global plans to ensure food security.

Three Civil Society representatives are presenting the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) to mediate their participation as participants in the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS). I have outlined the mechanism...

Principle 1 from Policy Roundtable on Land Tenure and International Investment in Agriculture not resolved. Rapporteur of the Round Table 2 will resume negotiations outside and the CFS will resume the...

There was general consensus about going back to the language of the original language with edits (IN CAPITALS) of Recommendation 1 of the Policy Roundtable (2) on Land Tenure and...

The renewed Committee on World Food Security's role is to promote greater policy convergence and coordination, including the development of international strategies and voluntary guidelines on food security and nutrition...

Presentations made at the 36th Session of the UN Committee on World are available (only in English) on the CFS website: http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-home/cfs-36/en/ (Scroll down)