The negotiated and approved Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security are now online. You can find them here: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/nr/land_tenure/pdf/VG_en_Final_March_2012.pdf  ...

A new informative, practical, and easy-to-understand, booklet for civil society organizations interested is getting involved with the Committee on World Food Security has been released today. I hope you find it helpful...

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests are complete

Last Friday, 9th of March in the evening, the Committee on Word Food Security (CFS) completed the intergovernmental negotiations of the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on theTenure of Land Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food Security. With the successful completion of these negotiations after a participatory process lasting nearly 3 years, the CFS has shown clearly that it has the capacity to bring a wide variety of social actors to the debate

and to seek solutions to one of the most difficult and delicate issues we face today, that of access to natural resources for food production/provision. More than 45 persons representing 20 civil society organizations attended the final round of negotiations.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="CSOs discussing the Voluntary Guidelines. www.cso4cfs.or"][/caption] I posted a rather abstract review of the outcomes of today's negotiations before  running off to grab a slice of pizza...

I lost a days worth of work yesterday (my analysis of the rise of governmentality in global food security governance and ongoing challenges to the "problem of population" ...