What's new? Find out at http://cso4cfs.org/ Brief, DAILY REPORTS on the extent and content of civil society participation in the CFS 36 will be available in the “CFS updates” section Civil...

Get succinct updates on the activities of civil society at the 36th session of the Committee of World Food Security: http://cso4cfs.org/cfs-updates/ Here are some pictures of an action made by...

The final day of the CSO Consultation focussed on thematic working groups: • Land • Protracted Crisis • General Strategic Framework/Mapping • Vulnerability Delegates and observers met in these groups, discussed key concerns and then planned their interventions and...

Just a note to say that I will be tweeting (@foodgovernance) and blogging about the CFS and CSO meetings in Rome over the next ten days. Any questions, concerns, etc....

In 1988, at the Multilateral Trade Negotiations of the Uruguay Round , Group of Negotiation on Goods, Negotiating Group on Agriculture (GATT), Jamaica issued a Communication titled "Elements for a proposal by developing countries" (MTN.GNG/NG5/w/68). As we lead up to the 36th Meeting of the Committee for World Food Security (CFS), and in the push for food sovereignty, the issues and concerns outlined by Jamaica in 1988 remain remarkably the same: the need for horizontal policy measures, valuing agriculture and food production (economically, socially), problems of distribution and inequity in tariffs and subsidies, enhanced support for rural poor and small-holder producers.