Tag: food security

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...

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...

Analysis of the most recent text on food security

COA Admin June 16, 2012 0 Comments
By Nimisha Bastedo, Anna Odell, Clara de Iturbe and Lara Shirley Having watched the development of the issue of food security in the negotiating text from the original release of the Zero Order Draft to the current negotiating text, we have identified some key areas that are particularly relevant and/or contentious in the facilitator’s suggested text. We have examined the text in depth, and...

A Reminder of Reality

jvelez March 28, 2012 0 Comments
By Julian Velez This is a reflection of my time in the Sustainable Development negotiations that took place in New York City. These negotiations are called the “informal-informal negotiations”; they are a build up to the Rio+20 summit. I speak of Food Sovereignty as a refreshing term that contrasts with the concepts and environment that is present in this UN process. I find the process of the...

What They Forgot to Mention

COA Admin March 22, 2012 0 Comments
By Clara de Iturbe The preceding day felt way too long and the tension in the air you felt when entering the ECOSOC room the morning after said a lot about what was coming next. Lengthy discussions of the Food Security thematic area—whose title has not yet been agreed upon—demonstrated that the North and the South have very specific agendas and that they are not ready to cooperate in certain...