The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relation with the CFS kindly invites you to…
The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism for relation with the CFS
kindly invites to a Virtual Public Briefing:
“Priorities and Key Messages to the upcoming CFS Negotiations
on Agroecological and other Innovative Approaches”
Thursday, 25 March, 13:15-14:15h CET
4 March 2021 CFS Advisory Group and Bureau meeting This meeting addressed the following topics: a) feedback and assessment on the past CFS 47th Plenary Session; b) draft agenda of the next extraordinary CFS Plenary Session of 4th June 2021; c) CFS contribution to the HLPF; d) the monitoring process for the CFS policy recommendations on Climate and Water to be addressed by CFS 48th Plenary Session in October; e) the intercessional events on Data and Inequalities foreseen in the MYPoW to be scheduled during 2021; f) Advisory Group reporting exercise; e) a CFS secretariat proposal on the impact assessment of CFS policy work.
CFS 47th Plenary Session 8-11 February 2020 In this page you will find all the information related to the CFS 47th Plenary Session that will be held entirely online. Please find here the following information and background documents for the session: Official CFS 47 Documents Branded Public Provisional Agenda Branded Public Provisional Timetable FAO Zoom meeting guidelines Registration Please note that to access the CFS Plenary Session, which will be held entirely via Zoom, you will need to register to the CFS 47 web portal by 22 January 2021. REGISTER HERE BEFORE 22 JANUARY 2021 ➡️Any questions related to registration for CFS-47, should be made to: CFS47-registration@fao.org.
The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) invites you to join Today, 15 of October 2020, at 4.30 pm CET its CFS partners event “COVID-19 impacts: a transgenerational and women’s viewpoint on food systems transformation” CSM Youth and Women constituencies from rural and urban contexts, will dialogue with the CFS Chair, Thanawat Tiensin, the DG for Sustainable Development Policies of the Ministry for Foreign Affair of Spain, Maria Abad Zapatero and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, on the current transgenerational challenges linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and the policy demands coming from the ground. English, French and Spanish interpretation will be available! TO ATTEND REGISTER HERE Read the Summary of the event here!
CSM Policy Briefing 12 October 2020 (13.00h – 13.40h CET) Download the agenda! The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will be hosting a virtual policy briefing to launch the Global Synthesis Report “Voices from the ground: from COVID-19 to radical transformation of our food systems”. The policy briefing will also serve to present the call to action on the Food Systems Summit. Register HERE to join the the virtual event Interpretation will be provided in English, Spanish and French CSM 10th Anniversary celebrations 12 October 2020 (2.00 pm – 5.00 pm CET) Download the agenda! This year CSM will celebrate and commemorate its 10th Anniversary. 10 years of struggles, peoples’ voices, faces and hands bringing to Rome their homes, ecosystems and demands. Ten years of alternative and grassroots collective narratives and practices as well as wonderful achievements that have empowered people’s struggle for the right to food around the planet. Today the struggle continues and gets even harder and sometimes more polarized. CSM has grown and has self-equipped itself to face the current challenges with an incredible wealth of knowledge and heritage of capacities and legitimacy. To honor and commemorate this journey the CSM has decided to launch an autonomous virtual public event prior to the official opening of the CFS virtual events of October to honor these ten years and linking them to the challenges of the present and future, invoking the spirit of the CFS reform: “Nothing about us, Without us!”. The event will take place virtually on Monday 12 of October 2020 from 2.00 to 5.00 pm Rome time. This date also coincides with the Indigenous Resistance day and will be a platform to launch our key policy messages to CFS. Register here to join!
September//December 2020 CFS virtual policy negotiations Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition CSM Preliminary Key priorities 9 October 2020 First meeting of the Friends of the Chair In order to allow the finalization of the Guidelines during the foreseen second week of negotiation (dates to be identified), a series of Friends of the Chair (FoC) meetings, scheduled between October and early November, on specific parts of the text will be taking place in the upcoming weeks starting on October 9th. The aim of this informal meetings is to facilitate the consensus building around some particular issues and controversies. It seems that no interpretation will be officially granted by the CFS, directly challenging the inclusiveness of the process. As a basis for this FoC meetings a Chair’s proposal which was prepared based on the inputs submitted during the first round of negotiations on the VGFSyN will be used. A note with modalities for this meetings was also shared. Calendar of upcoming Friends of the Chair meeting: Friday, 9 October (13.00-17.00) Monday, 19 October (13.00-17.00) Friday, 23 October (13.00-17.00) Monday, 26 October (13.00-17.00) Friday, 30 October (13.00-17.00) Friday, 6 November (13.00-17.00) 18 September 2020 CFS Advisory Group and Bureau meeting During the CFS Advisory Group and Bureau meeting of 18 September, an evaluation session of this first week of negotiation took place and CSM reminded CFS members that diversity and plurality of voices are central for the legitimacy and ambition of this process, sharing the expectation that this approach would be maintained in the next steps of the process. Please find here CSM Contributions. Due to the multiple challenges of this virtual modality and a lack of clarity on the methodology of the negotiation exercise during this first week, a first reading of the text was possible, consisting in a comprehensive annotation of the different text changes’ proposals, but without having the possibility to negotiate those text proposals, seeking convergence among the different and sometimes very polarized positions. The CFS has foreseen only a second week of negotiation to finalize the Guidelines on time for their approval in February, during CFS 47th Plenary Session, and so far, no concrete dates were identified in the busy calendar of the RBAs, but it was announced that they might take place between the end of November and the beginning of December. 7-11 September 2020 CFS virtual policy negotiations Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition The
CFS High-Level Virtual Events 13-15 October 2020 IMPORTANT! Registrations to the CFS High-Level events of 13-15 October are closing on October 8th. In order to register please click here and follow the instructions. You will receive a confirmation email with the details to access the event. When putting the name of your organisation while registering please write: Name of your organisation /CSM CFS High Level Events background documents CFS Chair’s Summary Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CFS Bureau decided to postpone the 47th CFS Plenary Session to 8-12 of February 2021. Nevertheless, it was agreed to make use of the dates originally booked for the plenary session to hold instead a three-days CFS high-level virtual events from 13 to 15 of October. Please find here the agenda of the virtual sessions. These three days do not foresee any policy decision-making moment, but will foster the policy dialogue among CFS members and participants across key policy issues that have been on the agenda of the Committee of this year. Such issues include the findings of the latest HLPE Report “Food Security and nutrition: building a global narrative towards 2030”, which also contains relevant policy recommendations towards a possible CFS policy response to Covid and call for a radical transformation of current food systems, the findings of the SOFI Report 2020, as well as a debate on the current CFS policy negotiations of the Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition and Policy Recommendations on Agroecological and other innovative approaches, and their link and contribution to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit. On 15 of October, the CFS is also expected to honor, as it has done in past years, the UN International Day of Rural Women in its opening session by having the voice of a rural woman addressing the virtual event. As you can see ministerial presence is confirmed in the panel discussions throughout the three days, as well as CSM interventions. As a result of these three days the CFS Chair will draft, in consultation with the CFS Bureau members, a Summary of the events. It is still not clear if this summary will also be included as part of the background documents that will inform CFS policy decisions in February. Moreover, a limited number of partners’ events will be also taking place virtually during these three days, prior and after the main events. Find the timetable here. The CSM
The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has the pleasure to invite you to the webinar ‘Learning about the COVID-19 crisis in the Committee on World Food Security’ Wednesday 16 April 15.00 – 17.00 (CET) DOWNLOAD THE FLYER You can now see the recorded webinar here! Panelists: Máximo Torero – Assistant DG, Economic and Social Development, FAO Francesco Branca – Director Nutrition and Development,WHO Olivia Yambi – Co-Chair IPES-Food G.V. Ramanjaneyulu – Executive Director, Center for Sustainable Agriculture Sophia Murphy – Senior Specialist, Agriculture, Trade, Investment, IISD Mamadou Goita – Executive Director, IRPAD Co-facilitators: Nettie Wiebe and Ruchi Tripathi (CSM) ———————————– EN/ES/FR Interpretation will be provided. If you are planning to attend through ES/FR interpretation please write to cso4cfs@gmail.com ABSTRACT It is increasingly evident that the tremendous impacts of the COVID19 pandemic on human health will be accompanied by a food crisis of global dimensions in which food import-dependent countries and vulnerable sectors of the population will be the hardest hit. CFS members and participants are already engaged in monitoring and assessing the impacts of COVID19 and tracking responses at all levels. The CFS can count on its own High-Level Panel of Experts and, importantly, on the data collection and knowledge generating activities of the RBAs, FAO in particular. At the same time, through the multiple constituencies that comprise it, the CFS has unprecedented access to the evidence and proposals of the most vulnerable, who are also responsible for the bulk of food production in the world. Putting these insights and perceptions together can help us to learn lessons regarding what makes food systems resilient and what normative process needs to be engaged to work towards inclusive, equitable and sustainable food systems. We invite you to a webinar on Impact of Covid-19 on food systems and policy responses to it. The panel comprises of speakers from international organizations and the academic and research world, from different regions. The format will be one of facilitated dialogue, inviting active engagement by CFS Members and participants. The Committee on World Food Security key in facilitating a coordinated global policy response around covid-19 and food crisis The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) was reformed in 2009 in response to a previous food crisis, making it the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform working towards ensuring food security, nutrition and the right
CSM side event @CFS 46 The impact of extractivism on women’s right to food and the struggle for a just transition Addressing root causes of violence against women and the way ahead for concrete solutions towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda 17 October 2019 08.30 – 10.00 Iran room DOWNLOAD THE FLYER SUMMARY OF THE SIDE EVENT Panelists: Samantha Hargreaves – WoMin (South Africa) Chaturika Sewwandi – National Federation of Women of Vikalpani (Sri Lanka) Laura Hurtado – National Director of ActionAid Guatemala (Guatemala), connected by telephone from Geneva Dercy Teles de Carvalho Cunha – President of the Rural Workers’ Union of Xapuri Municipality and President of the Small Farmers’ Association 11 June, Amazonia, Brazil Moderator: Azra Sayeed – International Women’s Alliance (Pakistan) The side event aims to explore the different aspects of extractive industries (from monoculture plantations to mining) and intends to make a linkage on how the environment and health impacts of this production are directly affecting women’s right to food and their empowerment. The event also wants to highlight what role that the CFS can play looking towards the upcoming CFS workstream on gender equality and women’s empowerment, to ensure a just transition towards the achievement of Agenda 2030. Moreover, we will also address how violence against women is strictly linked to women’s food insecurity and malnutrition and, often, how violence worsened when women live in areas where extractives projects are taking place. Interpretation available in EN/ES/FR
CSM Side Event @CFS 46 The future of food and the visions of the youth: “We don’t inherit land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” (Native American Saying) 18 October 2019 08.30 – 10.00 Iraq Room DOWNLOAD THE FLYER SUMMARY OF THE SIDE EVENT Panelists: Hilal Elver – UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Luis Fernando Ceciliano – Alternate Permanent Representative of Costa Rica David Suttie – IFAD Chaturika Sewwandi – Vikalpani National Women’s Federation (Sri Lanka) Jessie MacInnis – La Via Campesina (Canada) Moderator: Nzira Deus – World March of Women (Mozambique) The side event wants to give space to the demands and visions of rural youth and small-scale food producers from CSM towards the upcoming CFS workstream on this topic by strengthening linkages and policy dialogue with youth representatives of the CFS’ most affected constituencies. It will foster and support rural youth policy engagement from the constituencies most contributing to food security and nutrition in light of today’s great challenges, from the growing number of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition to climate change and the issue of migration that impacts youth and their rural communities. It will also offer a unique opportunity to CFS members and participants to understand that many young people are willing to stay in the rural areas and to revitalize them by nurturing dynamic relations with their own communities, their territories, natural resources and traditional knowledge, setting the scene for a just, healthy and sustainable future for all. Interpretation available in EN/ES/FR