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CSM Final Statement to CFS 43 – 21 October 2016 The CFS has become a unique space in the United Nations System where the voices of small-scale food producers, family farmers, fisher folks, indigenous peoples, food and agricultural workers, pastoralists, landless, women, youth, consumers, the urban food insecure and NGOs have been able to actively participate through an autonomous and open space, the CSM. The CSM has become the largest global space of civil society organizations working on food security and nutrition. Its participating organizations from 11 global constituencies and 17 sub-regions represent far beyond 380 Million food producers and consumers, and particularly the largest organizations and platforms of family farmers and smallholders worldwide. The CSM welcomes and appreciates most of the outcomes and proceedings of CFS 43, particularly the policy recommendations on Smallholder to Markets, Sustainable Agricultural Development and Livestock, and the activities and decisions related to Monitoring, Nutrition and SDGs. These decisions are of particular importance for smallholders and other constituencies and need to be disseminated, used and applied. The CSM congratulates the CFS Chair for conducting the Session in a fair, inclusive and participative way. The CSM suggests that the upcoming CFS Bureau and Advisory Group meeting in November evaluates the CFS 43 and its proceedings, including the initial confusion about the different roles of participants and observers. Another pressing issue is also how to include urgent, relevant and sometime controversial issues into the debate of a CFS Session, to give the CFS visibility and relevance on these issues of worldwide attention. The CFS is at the crossroads: We have seen during the past two years and also during this session, that there are two possible pathways for the CFS: either it goes in the direction of erosion of the CFS Reform, or in the direction of strengthening the CFS in the spirit of its Reform. The eight actions here are: Affirming the Vision of the CFS: the CFS is committed to contribute to the progressive realization of the right to adequate food. The centrality of human rights, particularly the indivisibility, universality, interdependency and interrelatedness of all human rights are fundamental for the CFS. There is no way to comply with the right to food without respecting, protecting and fulfilling women’s rights. Preserving the Focus of the CFS. Everybody is invited to contribute to the CFS. But special attention is given to the organizations of smallholders and

In this section you will be able to find the Civil Society Organisations’ Plenary Statements at CFS 43  Monday 17 October 2016 Opening Statement on Sustainable Food Systems, Nutrition and Climate Change On CFS Policy Convergence: Discussion on Sustainable Agricultural Development for Food Security and Nutrition including the role of Livestock: First Intervention Second Intervention Third Intervention  Fourth Intervention  Tuesday 18 October 2016 CFS Engagement in Advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: First and Second Intervention State of Food Insecurity in the World and the 2030 Agenda (no text available) Policy Convergence: Connecting Smallholders to Markets: Policy Recommendations: Main Messages of the first three interventions Additional intervention (Only available in Spanish) Monitoring the Implementation of CFS decisions and recommendations: Terms of Reference for Sharing Experiences and Good Practices (Only available in Spanish) Wednesday 19 October 2016 Monitoring the Implementation of CFS decisions and recommendations: Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure Global Thematic Event: CSM Panel intervention – Presentation of the CSO Independent Report on Civil Society experiences regarding the use and implementation of the tenure guidelines and the challenge of monitoring CFS decisions First Intervention Second Intervention (Only available in Spanish) Third Intervention CFS Engagement in Advancing Nutrition: First Intervention (Only available in Spanish) Second Intervention Multi‐Year Programme of Work Thursday 20 October 2016 Forum on Urbanisation, Rural Transformation and Implications for Food Security and Nutrition: CSM Intervention Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition: CSM Intervention Friday 21 October 2016 CFS Special Event: From Agreement to Action Towards Implementing the 2030 Agenda: Learning from the First Volunteer National Reviews: CSM Intervention from the panel (Only available in Spanish) Evaluation of the CFS:  CSM Intervention Adoption of the final Report: CSM Final Statement       

Opening Statement of Civil Society Mechanism – 17 October 2016 CFS 43 Opening: Sustainable Food Systems, Nutrition and Climate Change CSM welcomes the attention being given at World Food Day to the links between climate change, agriculture and food security. To be sure, we, small scale food providers, farmers, pastoralists, fishers, indigenous peoples, food and agricultural workers, youth and women live in the places where climate change is felt most acutely, in the most fragile ecosystems, and under the most difficult working conditions. We nurture and grow biodiversity in our fields, forests, waters, mountains and deserts, where the greatest biodiversity is often found. For centuries we have safeguarded precious and diverse seeds and animal breeds — through conservation, sustainable use, breeding, exchange and our intimate knowledge of how they perform in the changing contexts of our ecosystems.  We practice agroecology: a vast body of knowledge, practices, and ways of knowing and working with our agro-ecosystems.  Agroecology is our systems approach to climate adaptation and mitigation. The industrial food system, particularly industrial agriculture and livestock sectors, contributes more than one third of total global greenhouse gas emissions. Droughts and floods create food price volatility, which deepen hunger, malnutrition and vulnerability. In contrast, small-scale food producers and workers provide majority of the world’s food, with less fossil energy and waste, with more carbon sequestration capacity, on a quarter of the world’s farmland. We are alarmed that instead of recognizing and supporting the potential of agroecology and ending corporate control over food and agriculture, false solutions to climate change are being proposed that do not address its root causes, but instead promote practices and conditions that exacerbate climate change. These include climate smart agriculture, emissions trading and offset schemes, blue carbon, and various market mechanisms that are kicking people off the land, grabbing water and oceans, expanding monocultures, and financialising our food systems. We also raise cautions against solutions that involve technical fixes, or marginalize our knowledge and our control over our ecosystems, under the name of ‘climate smart agriculture’. Corporate mergers are also taking place in the name of better fighting climate change. If we want to build climate resilience, we must protect and respect our rights to territories, forests, water, seeds, knowledge and the rights of workers. At the same time we must stop the practices and policies that are destroying our ecosystems with industrial agriculture and aquaculture, monocultures, extractive industry and mega

CSM Side events proposals for CFS 43 were approved! Tuesday 18 of October 2016 18.00-19.30 Red Room Building A Flr 1 (Languages: EN/ES/FR) Contributing to the CFS Monitoring Mechanism. Experiences with the use of the VGGT, and the challenge for monitoring other CFS decisions (CSM Working Group on Monitoring) Download the Flyer! Speakers: Serge Tomasi – Ambassador of France Sofia Monsalve – FIAN Heather Elaydi – The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature Marcela Villarreal – FAO Rosana Miranda – Special Department of Family Farming and Agrarian Development, Brazil Wednesday 19 of October 2016  13.00-14.30 Lebanon Room Building C Flr 2 (Languages: EN/ES/FR) Livestock, Livelihoods and Food Security: Civil society responses to pressing equity, ecological and public health crises. Dialogue on agroecological proposals by peasant and agro-silvo-pastoral communities and other civil society’s perspectives on how to address multiple, complex and intertwined challenges (CSM Working Group on Sustainable Agricultural Development including the role of livestock) Download the Flyer! Speakers: Maria Teresa Alvarez, World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous People (WAMIP) Papis Bakary Colis, La Via Campesina (LVC) Dirk Jan Verdonk, World Animal Protection Dennis Olson, IUF/UFCW With the participation of: Amb. Yaya Olaniran, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to FAO, IFAD and WFP Damien Kelly, Permanent Mission of Ireland to FAO, IFAD and WFP Bettina Prato, IFAD Moderator: Stefano Prato, Society for International Development (SID) Thursday 20 of October 2016 8.30-10.00 Philippines Room Building C Flr 2 (Languages: EN/ES/FR) Contributing to the future priorities of the CFS. Dialogue on common pathways to address Agroecology and Genetic Resources (CSM Participating organisations) Download the Flyer! Introduction of the panel and moderation: Carl Hutchby – International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) Civil Society Proposals: Antonio Gonzalez – Movimiento Agroecológico de Latino America y el Caribe (MAELA) Chantal Jacovetti – La Via Campesina (LVC) Comments  by: Dr. Gunnvor Berge – Responsible for CFS at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway Larissa Maria Lima Costa – Alternate Permanent Representative of Brazil to FAO, WFO and IFAD Jimena Gómez – AGP FAO Thursday 20 of October 2016 18.00-19.30 Iraq Room  Building A/B Flr 2 (Languages: EN/ES/FR) Conflicts of Interest in Food security and Nutrition Policies: Which way forward for the CFS? Background and policy options to respect, protect and fulfil human rights and safeguard public policy spaces on food security and nutrition against undue influence (CSM Working Group on Nutrition) Download the Flyer! Speakers: Jonathan H. Marks, Associate Professor of Bioethics, Humanities and Law, Penn