2017 Special Broadcasts / Forests and Food Sovereignty at the Committee on World Food Security (Rome)
Friends of the Earth International, together with other organizations and networks in defense of Food Sovereignty are working and mobilizing in Rome in parallel to a new round of sessions of the Committee on World Food Security, demanding the recognition of the essential role of forests in the building of this political and territorial principle, and also for the people and communities inhabiting and protecting them. Real World Radio will be present in Rome to reflect on the advances of the negotiations and the actions of social movements and governments represented at the CFS.
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1 November 2017 | Videos | Forests and Food Sovereignty at the Committee on World Food Security (Rome)
Members of Friends of the Earth International assess negotiations and actions around forests and food sovereignty at the Committee on World Food Security
Kirtana Chandrasekaran, coordinator of the Food Sovereignty Program at Friends of the Earth International, together with Diego Alejandro Cardona, of CENSAT – Friends of the Earth Colombia, assessed the 44th round of sessions of the Committee on World Food Security that took place in October in Rome, Italy. Watch video
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17 October 2017 | Videos | Forests and Food Sovereignty at the Committee on World Food Security (Rome)
International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against Transnational corporations
With Ramona Dominicioiu, Via Campesina Romania, during the 44th CFS sessions in Rome
Ramona Dominicioiu, La Vía Campesina from Radio Mundo Real on Vimeo. Watch video
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11 October 2017 | Videos | Forests and Food Sovereignty at the Committee on World Food Security (Rome)
Interview with Kirtana Chandrasekaran of Friends of the Earth International at the negotiations of the Committee on World Food Security on forests
The coordinator of the Food Sovereignty Program of Friends of the Earth International, Kirtana Chandrasekaran, shares in the following video a summary of the role of forests and its communities in the building of food sovereignty. The interview was conducted by Real World Radio during the actions of the Civil Society Mechanism of the Committee on World Food Security that is holding its sessions in Rome until next Friday. Watch video
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10 October 2017 | Videos | Forests and Food Sovereignty at the Committee on World Food Security (Rome)
“Food production in an agroecological way cannot happen without the participation of small-scale food producers”
Interview with Naseeg Jaffer, Secretary General of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples
After its reform during the first decade of this century, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has opened its doors to the participation of social organizations, to the point that it is the only space within the United Nations system where the “Civil Society Mechanism” is effectively legitimated. But some actions from pivotal countries show that this could all change for the worse. Watch video
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6 October 2017 | Interviews | Forests and Food Sovereignty at the Committee on World Food Security (Rome)
“Without forest peoples, much of the world would be hungry”
Interview with Shalmali Guttal at the negotiations on forests and community rights
Social movements are working, negotiating and insisting before state representatives and multilateral organizations present at the Committee on World Food Security in order to obtain a text that strongly supports forests and communities that coexist with them. Read more
