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• 2014: International Year of the Family Farming

  For the first time in history, an International Year has been promoted by Civil Society

• Putting farmers first: reshaping agricultural research in West Africa

  This briefing by IEED explains how some farmer assessments and citizens’ juries in West Africa has helped farmers assess existing approaches and articulate recommendations for policy and practice to achieve their own vision of agricultural research.

• Policy Opportunities for Agroecology

  A strategy session to discuss policy opportunities to promote ecological and equitable models of sustainable food production and consumption.

• Do you invest in frontier markets?

  Pension Danmark's DKK 320 million (EUR 43 million) farmland investment will focus on agricultural production in Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Uganda and Mozambique

• Ending Hunger in Africa: What Strategies, What Governance?

  Ndiogou Fall, President of the ROPPA network for 10 years, at Harvard University

• Lamy rebuts UN food rapporteur’s claim that WTO talks hold food rights ‘hostage’

  WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy has rejected a report by Professor Olivier de Schutter, UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, which argues that international trade and WTO rules can conflict with food security.

• Climate talks: Farmers and Farm Workers March in Durban

  The farmers' march for the food sovereignty campaign

• Feeding the Financial Hype

  New SOMO report about negative consequences of food speculation

• Joint statement by The West African Civil Society Platform on the Cotonou Agreement

  We edit the joint statement by The West African Civil Society Platform on the Cotonou Agreement(POSCAO), Economic Justice Network of Ghana (EJN) and the Secretariat of the Africa Trade Network (ATN) on the occasion of the ECOWA ministerial monitoring committee (MMC) of the EPA negotiations.

• Food Sovereignty As a Way to Achieve Food Security

  Small steps in the Czech Republic towards sustainable agricultural production and consumption.

• Strengthening the Role of Human Rights in the EU Trade Policy

   Address to Ecofair Trade Dialogue “Strengthening the Role of Human Rights in the EU Trade Policy”, 7 - 7 December - Brussels

• Face to the G20, All in Nice

  Here, you can read the programme and all informations about four days of demonstrations, conferences, debates and actions.

• Africa can feed itself! The summary report

  For the first time, Africa’s two major food security actors - its governments and its small-scale food producers – have come together on the same platform to exchange views and seek common ground.

• Food sovereignty: now’s the time to make it happen! The integral article by Nora Mc Keon

  From 10 to 22 October the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will be meeting at FAO in Rome to debate land grabbing, food price volatility and rural investiments. Nora mc Keon, in this article, explains why the CFS is so important 

• EuropAfrica on the front line with FAO at the side event "Africa can feed itself"

  Africa can feed itself! is 'the conviction behind the event - scheduled for October 18, 12:30 to 14:00 hours at FAO - which is part of the collateral activities to the CFS.

• We defend the Land - Focus on the FAO

  From the 10th of October until the 14th in Rome it will take place the last stage of the intergovernatives negotiations for the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure of Land. For the occasion there have been prepared a strong mobilization of the civil society adressed to arouse consciences on the subject and watch over the negotiation’s progresses.

• L'agricoltura come motore per lo sviluppo rurale.

  Un evento che si è svolto a margine della quarta Conferenza delle Nazioni Unite sui paesi meno sviluppati (LDC-IV).

• The reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in line with the needs of people and the environment?

  5-8 luglio 2011 - Varsavia Polonia. Conferenza del CFSI sul tema della promozione della sovranità alimentare.

• Semiario: "Fat chance for development? Impact of EU trade policies on the South - focus on the livestock sector"

  27-28 maggio 2011 - Debrecen (Ungheria)

• G8 a presidenza francese a Deauville

  Il 26 e 27 maggio 2011 a Deauville (Francia) si è svolto il G8 a presidenza francese

• Food for everyone – Towards a global deal

  23 maggio 2011 - Bruxelles
  Food for everyone – Towards a global deal,  conferenza organizzata dal Comitato economico e sociale europeo (EESC), in cooperazione con la Commissione Europea

• Yaoundè Meeting

  Gli investimenti nell'agricoltura: un aspetto chiave nell’appoggio ai sistemi alimentari sostenibili