Tag: FAO

Lost and Wasteful

khristian October 15, 2014 0 Comments
by Khristian Mendez // I spent most of the day yesterday with the Civil Society working group of Food Losses and Waste. We left the building at 11pm, carrying behind us the dread of a horrible round of negotiations. We lost a few battles, in favor of wasteful systems. Food Losses and Waste is one of those topics that sounds pretty: all we have to do is waste less food, right? That was my initial...

Let us walk out of the hunger map

khristian October 14, 2014 2 Comments
by khristian mendez // A world free from hunger and malnutrition. That is what we are here to imagine. Yesterday, the 41st Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS41) began. We heard introductions by Gerda Verbug, the Director-General of FAO José Graziano da Silva, and the heads of other Rome-based agencies. The State of Food Insecurity 2014, a report usually presented at this...

Fuel before food: The U.S. position on biofuels

FAO Delegation October 8, 2013 1 Comment
By Stevie DuFrense, Becca Haydu, and Cara Weber The issue of biofuels and their impacts on world food security is a contested topic here at CFS 40 in Rome. The text is up for negotiation as civil society works to influence the voting member governments of the CFS. Students from the United States, Becca, Cara and Stevie, have been following U.S. biofuels policy and its impacts on world food...

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...

Climate-Smart Agriculture: Not so Smart?

nzidan December 2, 2012 0 Comments
by Nada Zidan "Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) will secure food for all as well as help build resilience for climate change. CSA guarantees increased productivity and income, strong resilience against climate change and variability, as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage on farmlands… In the agricultural sector, adaptation and mitigation have to go hand in...