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Civil society meets in parallel to FAO World Summit on Food Security in Rome
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Civil society around the world has been working on organizing the CSOs Forum parallel to the FAO World Summit on Food Security starting in Rome yesterday.
The forum calls for PEOPLE'S FOOD SOVEREIGNTY NOW! and more than 600 delegates (NGO's, indigenous peoples, fishers, farmers, environmentalists, youth, etc) are attending right now the thematic sessions of the Forum.
GCAP Italy in collaboration with the Italian Association of NGOs held a side-event "on the road from L'Aquila". The aim of the side event was to have a feedback on the roadmap on food security after L'Aquila Summit.
Some of the speakers were:
- Renzo Maria ROSSO - Coordinator for Multilateral Organizations - Directorate General for Development Cooperation - Italian MoFA
- Marco COCHI - Mayor's Delegate for Cooperation - Municipality of Rome
- Richard CHINA - Director, Policy Assistance and Resources Mobilization Division and Officer-in-Charge Field Operations Division - FAO
- Paul G. LARSEN - Director, Multilateral and NGO Relations - WFP
- Kevin CLEAVER - Assistant President for Programmes, Programme Management Dept. - IFAD
Some of the main conclusions were:
- Developing countries have demonstrated that it is possible to reduce hunger (ex. Brazil, China, Ghana, Vietnam, India and Tanzania)
- Need to have national programmes as a result of coodination work between governments, farmers and civil society organisations
- Need to find regional programme solutions
- Farmers organisations need to be strengthen
- Food quality must to be included in national programmes
- Need to find the way to use resources efficiently
- Need confidence that food secuirty will be included in the Canadian agenda
- Donors need to be accountable
