International Planning Committee
for Food Sovereignty (IPC)
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Europe and North America promote biopiracy at the 10th ITPGRFA Governing Body
When we arrived at the FAO plenary room in Rome, we could smell the unwillingness of some delegations since day one. Indeed, the 10th meeting of the Governing Body (GB) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) slipped away without any major decisions taken. Rather, the absence of decisions…
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Beyond World Food Day: time to join our efforts towards the achievement of Food sovereignty
The World Food Day is an occasion for small-scale food producers’ organizations to celebrate the crucial role of peasant agriculture, family farming, artisanal fisheries, Indigenous Peoples’ food systems, consumers, and all forms of food production that take place on a community and territorial level in feeding the world. Rural and water communities and Indigenous People…
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World Food Day 2023: mobilize with the Food Sovereignty movement!
Today on the World Food Day, we celebrate the crucial role of peasant agriculture, family farming, artisanal fisheries, Indigenous Peoples, consumers, and all forms of food production that take place at the community and territorial level, in feeding the world. We are communities of rights holders. That is why we express our concern about the…
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Will the negotiations on plant genetic resources be able to break the deadlock?
A game of chess that has stalled for ten years. This is how the negotiations of the working group on the Multilateral System (MLS) set up under the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (ITPGRFA) to enhance the access and sharing of benefits arising from the use of plant genetic resources look. We participated as Working…
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The IPC fight for peasant biodiversity lands in Montreal for the COP15
The IPC daily briefing from COP15 COP15 End COP15 came excruciatingly close to earning the label of the “Copenhagen for biodiversity”, a derogatory reference to the 2009 climate COP, where parties failed to reach an agreement. In the end, however, an agreement was reached in Montréal. Almost 200 Parties struck a deal on the Global…
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The IPC develops a People-Centred Methodology for monitoring the SSF policies
In the summer of 2021, the members of the SSF-GSF Advisory Group with the support of the IPC WG on Fisheries, decided to develop a methodology for assessing the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication; the main international UN instrument to protect and promote the…
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Food Sovereignty is the only solution and way forward
World Food Day 2022 Statement Our fragile world faces an impending global food crisis. The impact of COVID-19 pushed more people into poverty. Lockdowns devastated family livelihoods, the economy, and disrupted supply chains. Globally, according to the GRFC 2022, levels of hunger remain as alarmingly high as in 2021, around 193 million people are acutely…
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Farmers’ Rights are at stake: a week of diplomatic fight in New Delhi
From the 19th to the 24th of September, the 9th meeting of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) – the binding international treaty defining the regulatory framework for agrobiodiversity – was held in New Delhi, India. ITPGRFA should be a tool for safeguarding farmers’ rights…
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IPC is in India to protect farmers’ rights from multinationals’ biopiracy
The IPC Working Group on Biodiversity is participating at the meeting of the governing body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) to continue the struggle to defend farmers rights over their seeds. The meeting will be held in New Delhi in India from today (17th of September) to…
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The IPC Facilitation Committee meets in Rome
Last few days were so inspiring! Just after the FAO Comittee on Fisheries we jumped into another key moment for the IPC: the meeting of the Facilitation Committee. Representatives of the different articulations of the IPC came to Rome to discuss how to strengthen and to advance the food sovereignty agenda. The meeting was centered…
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One week at the COFI: our work for small-scale fisheries
From the 5th to the 9th September 2022, an IPC Delegation took part to the 35th Session of the Committee on Fisheries of the FAO in Rome. This 35th COFI represented a crucial moment for small scale fisher people and indigenous peoples, not just because 2022 is the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture…
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Social movements for small-scale fisheries meet in Rome ahead of the COFI
The 35th session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) will take place from 5th to 9th September 2022 in Rome, Italy. This is the most important global intergovernmental forum where FAO Members meet to analyse and discuss issues and challenges related to fisheries and aquaculture. The IPC has been recognized as an observer at…
