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Save the date - Tuesday, 3 February 2015 (am)   9.30-12.30 – Mexico room, the OEWG on MYPOW will meet to discuss and approve the workplan for of the MYPoW OEWG for 2015 and discuss and review the current list of activities for the MYPoW 2016-2017...   ...

Next Joint Bureau and Advisory Group meeting will take place on Monday 2 February 2015 from 14.30 to 17.30 in the German Room at FAO HQs. Several issues will be discussed, among which future CFS workstreams, the CFS's role on nutrition, the GSF update and arrangements for CFS42. Here ...

 Promoting Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems: From Principles to Action Kick-Start Event, March 17th, 2:30 – 5:30pm, with reception to follow Red Room, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy   Formal invitation with agenda to follow in early February The ...

A call for nomination of experts is open until 31 January 2015.   Nominations can be submitted by all CFS members, participants and stakeholders. The nomination procedure is entirely web-based via an online application form. Instructions are provided at http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/hlpe-stc-renewal/en/.   Nominators ...

  After two months of joint efforts to have a proper participation of smallholders organizations in the preparation process for the High Level Forum on Connecting Smallholders to Markets, the CFS Bureau decided end of November to correct a previous decision and to include the CSM into the ...

The CSM Working Group on Protracted Crisis is planning to hold a series of meetings in the last week of January (27-30 January). The support of this process is one of the priorities of the CSM in 2015 and will be concluded with the final negotiations round from 18-22 May 2015. An internal strategy ...

The last AG Bureau Meeting’s Agenda included some relevant issues for CSOs, related to upcoming CFS work streams, the process towards the High Level Conference on Linking smallholders to markets; the issue of Participant and Observers to the CFS Forum; Post 2015; and an update on the Post ICN ...

  CFS 41 agreed to extend the consultation and negotiation period leading up to endorsement by CFS 42 in October 2015. The Second Draft (Co-Chairs’ Proposal) is posted in Engilsh at this link (other languages will be posted shortly): http://www.f...