Radio Mundo Real

Over 400 delegates, coming from 70 countries of four continents, will meet in Rome from November 13th to 17th for the People´s Food Sovereignty Forum 2009

This will be a parallel initiative to the World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Civil society, small scale food producers, farmers, fisherfolks, indigenous peoples, rural workers, rural youth, women and pastoralists organizations will participate.

On Thursday, the Forum launched a press release, in which they state that the current situation, with over a billion undernourished people, representing the highest number in four decades- “ is not the result of any sudden natural disaster, but the fruit of decades of the same wrong policies.”

“The People’s Food Sovereignty Forum is committed to changing the dominant agricultural and food policies by effectively dealing with the root causes of hunger and poverty and presenting the proposals that have emerged from the long resistance of small food producers and the urban poor. There will be no solution to the world’s multiple crises without a central role for civil society and a dialogue with governments”, highlights the communiqué.

The Forum is organized by the International Steering Committee (ISC), made up by different organizations representing food producers and affected peoples.

Real World Radio will cover the event, in which organizations and movements like la Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth International, the International Indian Treaty Council, and Oxfam International will participate.

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