Download here the Final Report CSO African Consultation on the implementation of Farmers’ Rights CIFAN Nyéléni Village – Selingue, Mali From 17 to 20 July 2018 Introduction Forty participants, from 17 African countries, representing peasants, pastoralists, small-scale farmers, women organizations, NGOs and organizations active in food sovereignty, met from 17 to 20 July 2018 in Nyéléni, Selingue, Mali, to defend their rights on seeds for food sovereignty. The meeting has been organized by International Planning Committee (IPC) for Food Sovereignty and hosted by Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysanne (CNOP), and it has been supported by Brazilian, Malian and Norwegian Government, and financed by the Cooperation South-South of FAO. Fundamental principles The preamble of the Treaty recognizes the contribution of farmers in conserving, improving and making available Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA). The participants of the African Consultation consider peasants, as defined in the draft […]
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DECLARATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AT THE 29th FAO REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA Bucharest, 30 March 2014 We, European, South Caucasus and Central Asian independent social movements of small farmers, agricultural workers, NGOs, fishers and fish workers, pastoralists and herders, consumers, women and youth, gathered in Bucharest, on 29-30 March 2014, to prepare our contribution to the 29th FAO’s Regional Conference for Europe and Central Asia. We welcome the FAO Strategy for Partnership with Civil Society Organizations which was approved by Member States at the Council in 2013. We reaffirm our commitment to this Strategy; we will fulfil our responsibility in this regard and we are convinced that governments and FAO will do their part as well. We are looking forward to engaging with FAO at all levels; from headquarters, to the regional office and country offices. We will do our best to broaden civil society participation […]
DECLARATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AT THE 28th FAO REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR AFRICA We, African civil society organizations composed of farmers, herders/pastoralists, artisanal fisherfolk, consumers, NGOs, human rights movements, women, youth, academics, artisans, indigenous people urban poor, we met in Tunis on 21 and 22 March 2014 as part of the 28th FAO Regional Conference for Africa, and after discussing the situation in the agricultural development of Africa, food security and nutrition, family farms, natural resources (land, water, pasture, forests, etc.), we make the following observations: Participants appreciate: 1- the establishment of the FAO strategic framework for partnership with civil society. They appreciate the efforts of PAFO and its member UMNAGRI for organizing this consultation which brought together participants from 35 African countries with a representation of 47% women ; 2- the efforts of the CSA through the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure […]
CSO Statement to the 32nd FAO Asia Pacific Regional Conference 10-15 March 2014-03-13 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Honourable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am P.P Sivapragasam, a member of the Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) and representing the Civil Society Organizations. First of all, I would like to table here our deepest sadness that one of our CSO colleague and an international activist Ms Chandrika Sharma from India was on Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 that is still missing until today. She was to attend this conference. The whole CSO community offers our prayers for her safety. We, 38 representatives of small farmers, landless, rural women, fishers, agricultural workers, forest dwellers, pastoralists and herders, indigenous peoples, urban poor, consumers, youth and NGOs coming from ten (10) countries met from March 8 to 9, 2014 in conjunction to the 32nd FAO Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Mongolia. We are confronted with intensifying […]