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By Michael Fakhri, Hilal Elver and Olivier De Schutter From: http://www.ipsnews.net/2021/03/un-food-systems-summit-not-respond-urgency-reform/ At a critical juncture on the road to the UN Food Systems Summit, three UN rights experts warn that it will fail to be a ‘people’s summit’ unless it is urgently rethought. NEW YORK, Mar 22 2021 (IPS) – Global food systems have been […]

FAO Tool for Agroecological Performance Evaluation (TAPE) is in its pilot phase and Schola Campesina coordinates the testing in countries of  Europe and Central Asia including Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Turkey, Moldova, Hungary, Italy (and many others to come in 2021). Beyond demontsrating the performance of agroecology, TAPE is a tool that makes visible peasant knowledge

Just Net Coalition, along with more than 170 civil society groups addressed an Open Letter to the UN Secretary General urging him to shelve plans for a High Level Multistakeholder Body which, if set up, can be expected to become the default apex global digital governance and policy body. This body is to be privately

New trainings -for food producers organizations- will be soon implemented. See the video presentation, by Steven (MOCASE – La Via Campesina)      

Schola Campesina signed the Open Letter – The new CAP needs Social Conditionality, End exploitation and raise labour standards in European agriculture   “At least ten million people are employed in European agriculture, mainly as seasonal workers, day labourers or in other insecure statuses. Despite being defined as essential by the EU institutions and national

See the SEEDS training on Agro-Perma-Lab website “Agro-Perma-Lab: SEEDS” 2021 Training is an online training series of 10 thematic modules for educators, social activists and community leaders in agroecology and permaculture from the Food Sovereignty Network in Poland and, by extension in English, in Europe. The training aims at developing a Polish curriculum and raising

Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the Right To Food, published a new video on the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition (VGFSyN) highligting the lack of reference to Human Rights in the actual draft. Video of the Special Rapporteur on the Right To Food The negocations are currently ongoing and many governments are continiously

The call is promoted by the Peoples and organizations participating in the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism for relations with the CFS  Dear all, Organizations of those most affected by hunger, malnutrition and ecological destruction are launching this invitation to join forces to challenge the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit (FSS) which is expected to take