International Planning Committee
for Food Sovereignty (IPC)
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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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12 october: join the webinar on corporate capture
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) organises an online public briefing to shed light on the creeping process of corporate takeover of FAO and other UN agencies at the expense of states, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples and civil society. Panelists will be representatives of small-scale food producers: Saúl Vicente Vásquez, International Indian…
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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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In Rome we fight seed industry and biopiracy
The IPC Working Group on Agrobiodiversity is in Rome to participate in the Open-Ended Working Group to enhance the functioning of the Multilateral System, and to fight the private interests that try to get rid of their obligations as set by the FAO Plant Treaty 20 years ago. We’re here to defend peasants’ rights to…
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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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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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CBD negotiations in Geneve, IPC agricultural biodiversity Working Group statement
From 14 to 29 March 2022, the third session of the SBI, the 24th SBSTTA and the third open-ended working group on the Global Biodiversity Framework were held in Geneva, Switzerland. The IPC Working Group on Agricultural Biodiversity participated in person in the first week of the meeting, with a delegation from Latin America. Several…
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UN biodiversity talks resume in Geneva: what’s at stake and what the IPC is doing there
By Mariapaola Boselli, IPC WG on Biodiversity Facilitator 16 March 2022 The agenda for the third day of the meeting, Wednesday 16 March 2022, saw the discussion of key issues for the IPC Working Group on Agricultural Biodiversity. In the morning, delegates discussed the second set of targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, namely…
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Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
By Mariapaola Boselli – Centro Internazionale Crocevia The first part of CBD CoP 15 was held from 11 to 15 October 2021. The meeting, for the first time since the pandemic began, brought together several government delegates in China while maintaining an active virtual mode given the still very complex global situation. Phase two…
