Please find all CSM Plenary Interventions at CFS 45 (15 – 19 October 2018)!
CSM statement at the Global Thematic Event to monitor the Right to Food Guidelines:
18 October 2018
Ramona Dominicioiu, La Via Campesina – LVC (Romania)
Coordinator of the CSM Working Group on Monitoring
We first want to start off by congratulating CFS actors for the amount of participation that went into this monitoring process, and offer a special congratulations to member states for taking up the call to conduct monitoring exercises at sub-national, national, regional, and global levels. Through these exercises, we can better understand the successes and challenges in implementing the right to food guidelines, and reaffirm the importance of ensuring space for monitoring and accountability at the CFS. Continue Reading!
CSM Plenary statement at the Global Thematic Event to monitor the Right to Food Guidelines:
18 October 2018
Billy Mayaya – Right to Food Network (Malawi)
CSM Working Group on Monitoring
While there are many different laws, policies, strategies, and constitutional provisions that support the Right to Food at national level- our assessment has revealed that there remains fragmentation across sectors, as well as a gap between frameworks and implementation. And within those gaps falls many different kinds of violations which were already mentioned in the panel presentation, including the increasing rates of criminalization of human rights defenders- an important issue that we also raised in the 2016 monitoring exercise of the Tenure Guidelines, and unfortunately has not yet changed. Continue reading!
CSM Plenary Intervention on the adoption of the ToRs for the upcoming policy convergence process on Nutrition and Food Systems:
17 October 2018
Isabel Álvarez Vispo – Urgenci (Spain)
Coordinator of the CSM Working Group on Nutrition and Food Systems
I would like to thank the Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) and the task teams for the process so far, and for the work carried out to achieve these Terms of Reference.It is worth noting that the process that lies ahead is extremely important, especially in the current context of hunger and malnutrition. This process can show us the path to follow in order to fulfil the CFS mandate. It is the responsibility of the CFS to achieve food security, and to enable access for everyone to healthy food that reflects justice for both people and planet earth. Continue Reading!
CSM Plenary intervention during the debate on the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) and migration:
15 October 2018
Nadjirou Sall – Roppa (Senegal)
CSM Coordination Committee
It is a pleasure to take the floor on behalf of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism, as facilitator for the Africa region. I represent the Network of Farmers Organizations and Agricultural Producers of West Africa (ROPPA), a network that covers 15 countries in the ECOWAS and 50 million family farmers. Migration generally refers to the mobility of peoples, inherent to societal and human transformation. It has been happening since time immemorial and will always exist. Continue reading!
CSM Plenary intervention during the debate on the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) and migration:
15 October 2018
Nasmin Choudhury (India)
CSM Youth Constituency
I come from India and witness to ravaging impacts of forced migration. Our villages are empty of young boys and youth. Schools have only girls as boys are forced to migrate to cities, and even further to the Gulf countries to chase their dream of overcoming poverty. Continue Reading!
CSM Plenary intervention on the adoption of the CFS Evaluation implementation Report:
17 October 2018
Azra Sayeed – International Women’s Alliance (IWA), Pakistan
CSM Coordination Committee
The CSM has engaged with the CFS evaluation process throughout the past two years, and has provided many and substantial contributions to it, always with the aim to strengthen the CFS in the spirit of its reform and its visionto strive for a world without hunger where the right to adequate food is realized by all. Continue Reading!
CSM Plenary intervention on the debate for the upcoming MYPoW 2020-2023:
18 October 2018
Ahmed Mansour – Habitat International Coalition, HIC (Egypt)
The CFS implementation plan has agreed that “all activities in the MYPoW are designed, planned and implemented to promote: resilience of livelihoods; attention to the people most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition; a multi-sectoral inclusive and participatory approach; evidence-based decision-making; environmental, economic and social sustainability; gender equality, women’s and girls’ rights and women’s empowerment in the context of food security and nutrition.” Continue reading!
CSM Plenary intervention on SDGSs:
17 October 2018
Saúl Vicente Vazquez – International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), Mexico
Coordinator of the CSM Working Group on SDGs
The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism welcomes the document CFS 2018/45/8 “CFS and the 2030 Agenda: Contributions to the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) – Draft Decision”. We thank the Working Group facilitator for their efforts.We would also like to request plenary to consider implementing, together with the facilitator, the necessary updates on United Nations agreed language, in order to change “indigenous people” to “indigenous peoples“- Continue Reading!
CSM Plenary intervention on Monitoring:
17 October 2018
Abbas John Kamara, Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (Sierra Leone)
CSM Working Group on Monitoring
We want to first acknowledge the achievement of a shared common understanding of the innovative monitoring mechanism of the CFS and its role to promote accountability and share best practices at all levels, as outlined in the CFS evaluation. With this shared understanding in mind, we welcome this decision box, which will further this innovative mechanism through a first pilot experience monitoring specific policy recommendations. These recommendations reflect important contributions and potential solutions to ending hunger and supporting the realization of the right to food. Continue reading!
CSM Plenary intervention on Multi-stakeholder Partnerships:
18 October 2018
Thierry Kesteloot, Oxfam Solidarité (Belgium)
Coordinator of the CSM Working Group on Global Food Food Governance
The translation of the HLPE reports is a minimal requirement to ensure an inclusive discussion. Unfortunately this is not the first time that we cannot discuss the valuable contributions of the HLPE in the CFS because of a lack of financial commitment. This makes it also impossible to have a fully inclusive analysis by the CSM. Continue reading!
World Food Day
16 October 2108
Margarita Gomez – La Via Campesina (LVC), Argentina
Coordinator of the CSM Youth Constituency
World Food Day
16 October 2108
Adwoa Sakyi- IUF, Ghana
CSM Coordination Committee
CSM Statement on best practices and lessons learned on nutrition and food systems:
19 October 2108
Marisa Macari – El Poder del Consumidor (Mexico)
CSM Working Group on Nutrition and Food Systems
CSM Statement on the CFS panel debating SOFI and Climate Change:
15 October 2018
Tui Shortland – International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), New Zealand
CSM Plenary Intervention on SOFI and Climate Change:
15 October 2018
María Teresa Álvarez – WAMIP (Argentina)
CSM Coordination Committee