Summer School? European Society for Rural Sociology
How about a week in Finland engaging in rural sociology? The Summer School of the European Society for Rural Sociology will be organized August 19th – 26th 2012 in Ristiina, Finland The Summer...
The World Bank Group and Global Food Security Governance
The World Bank Group is an international financial institution tasked with providing loans to developing countries to support various programmes. Since the onset of the food price spikes, they have...
New OECD Report: Divided we Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising
Governments must tackle record gap between rich and poor, says OECD The gap between rich and poor in OECD countries has reached its highest level for over over 30 years, and...
"People feel this is like the return of colonialism" or, why biofuels make me cry
The UNFCCC negotiations in Durban are looking increasingly bleek, especially from a Canadian perspective. The Guardian has a new story and video out with more upsetting news about the push...
Food Security and the WTO
The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development has posted this article on the WTO, Food Security and the push for consensus: Food Security: WTO Deadline Prompts Scramble for Consensus ---- Consultations on...
Speech on Food Price Volatility Roundtable by Ibrahim Coulibaly
Last week I posted the French version of this speech. Here is the translation into English (thanks to Paolo Tedeschini Lalli for working on this). About forty years ago, when I...
Friday Smile: Camel Kisses
Well, I am gearing up for another long day at the 37th Session of the Committee on World Food Security. But today, when I opened my email I had a...
Consultation on the Global Strategic Framework
The CFS plans to make a decision on the Global Strategic Framework tomorrow (Friday) but it was just announced that due to the several requests, the submission deadline has been...
Policy Roundtable on Food Price Volatility: Civil Society Panellist
In my last post, I quoted Patrick Mulvany's summary of the CFS. He mentioned a speach made by Ibrahima Coulibaly, the West African farmer leader who addressed the Policy Roundtable...
CFS Update
I have been so busy working and researching and interviewing(and getting drenched by torrential rainstorms that delayed negotiations by 4 hours this morning and left us at FAO without electricity)...