4th CSO Forum

Finding [a][our] Voice?

FAO Delegation October 7, 2013 0 Comments

By Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo FAO, Rome Day One Morning 6:30 am. I wake up and get ready for the first day at the conference with the other people in the civil society group, also called the Civil Society Mechanism for the CSF or the Committee on World Food Security. I start revising the background documents with a cappuccino in hand as I wait for the rest of the delegation to come to the...

Hard and Fast Facts on What’s Happening in Rome

khristian October 6, 2013 2 Comments

by Khristian Méndez -- As a preparatory meeting for the 40th Plenary Session of the World Committee on Food Security, over 175 representatives from Civil Society met yesterday at the Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in Rome, Italy. More on what is happening after the jump. The room is teeming with diversity, with delegates hailing from all corners of...

Arrival into the People’s space of food politics

FAO Delegation October 5, 2013 0 Comments

By Nimisha Bastedo and Clara de Iturbe We’ve arrived at the heart of global food politics: The Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. We’re here for the 40th annual meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). As one of the opening speakers said yesterday morning, this committee is the “foremost inclusive, international, intergovernmental platform” for addressing food...