The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CSIPM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) kindly invites you to join the closing session of the CSIPM Forum 2025.
The 2025 CSIPM Public Panel of the Forum titled Standing United for People, Rights, and the Planet. Reaffirming the Importance of the CFS within Global Food Governance, will bring together CFS Members and participants to confront the systemic crises driving hunger, inequality, conflict, and climate breakdown, as well as the growing disconnect between people and politics.
The session will emphasize that peasants, pastoralists, fisherfolk, Indigenous Peoples, agricultural and food workers, landless communities, women, youth, consumers, and the urban food insecure are already transforming food systems through their practices. Their knowledge and innovations are advancing agroecology, territorial markets, shorter supply chains, and food systems grounded in solidarity and care. They must shape the policies that affect their lives and territories.
The exchange will bring these real solutions into dialogue while insisting that human rights remain at the core of global food governance, with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) as the central space to advance them. It will be a dialogue on the structural transformation we need, starting from the practices rights-holders are already carrying out on the ground. The Forum’s Public Panel will also affirm that food systems cannot flourish under war and occupation, and that justice requires the restoration of land, sovereignty, and dignity, as well as accountability for those who violate international law and human rights.
PROGRAMME CONCEPT NOTE
The Public Panel will take place on Sunday, 19 October 2025, from 4:00 to 6:00pm, at Roma Tre University, Aula Magna (Ex Mattatoio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4, 00153, Rome)
CFS Members, participants and media are welcome to attend.
Interpretation: English, French, Spanish