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)...
What is the International Food Security and Nutrition Civil Society Mechanism?
The Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) coordinated its annual pre-CFS (Committee on World Food Security) Forum. At the meeting, civil society organizations met to discuss strategies and harmonise positions. There were...
CSO Statement on the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Lands, Fisheries and Forests
The Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) welcome the results of the second round of negotiations on the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Lands, Fisheries and Forests and call...
New Report: Global Governance for World Food Security
Nora McKeon has written an excellent new report for Heinrich Boll Stiftung titled Global Governance for World Food Security: A Scorecard Four Years After the Eruption of the "Food Crisis" It...
How effective is the renewed Committee on World Food Security?
After the 2006-2008 food price crisis, we saw a swell of activity at that the global level as an attempt was made to address a food system that left1 billion...