Lara Shirley

The Game of the G77

Lara Shirley June 27, 2012 1 Comment

By Lara Shirley The negotiating strategies employed by the G77+China are very interesting. They are a political entity, and thus have to be highly conscious of the image they project not only to their fellow negotiators but to the wider global community of civil society and media. The G77 negotiators tend to use precise and sophisticated language, often being the only ones to explicitly...

Our Red Line: Action at Rio+20

Lara Shirley June 21, 2012 0 Comments

by Lara Shirley Earth in Brackets participated in an action today called 'Our Red Line'. 'Our Red Line' was an action aimed at drawing the essential, red line that Rio+20 should uphold for humanity, the earth and the future. It evolved from how the term was used over the past few days, as Brazil has been asking countries to remove brackets from the text and instead only state...

Food S_________ty

Lara Shirley June 19, 2012 0 Comments

by Lara Shirley We have just published a primer on food sovereignty and how it’s different from food security: check it out here! (In a nutshell, food security means everyone having enough to eat, but without taking into consideration where the food is coming from and what effect it has on the communities it is bought or distributed in. Food sovereignty means the right of everyone to grow their...

Selling Indigenous at the People’s Summit

Lara Shirley June 17, 2012 0 Comments

by Lara Shirley I went to the People’s Summit yesterday. It was its first day, and was inaugurated by an impressively large gathering of indigenous people. It was very powerful: they were dressed in their traditional clothes and dancing. I stopped by a few hours later as well and noticed that, while there were still some events going on, many of the indigenous people had set up around the tents...

Analysis of the most recent suggested text on food security

Lara Shirley April 23, 2012 0 Comments

By Anna Odell, Clara de Iturbe and Lara Shirley We have read the Zero Order Draft, the latest version of the amended text for food security, and the co-chair's suggested text that followed it. Overall, we have found that the Co-Chairs’ suggested text is a combination of acutely incompatible and different opinions. While inevitable to a certain extent, in this case the views expressed differ to...