Global Food Security Summit: Send a Message

[SpiralHawk]

Fresh from the blogosphere - an opportunity to sign on and support clean food and a clean earth at this global summit.

Key decisions will be made. Are we going to biotech the bejabbers our of our planet? Not what most people or families would choose.
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"Later this month at the behest of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), governmental representatives from around the world will convene for a third world food summit in Rome.

"While the FAO has prepared an official declaration to launch the summit, a group of civil society organizations have prepared their own draft document: Policies & Actions to Eradicate Hunger and Malnutrition. These alternative proposals are based not on the lobbying of mega food corporations, but rather on the experiences of small-scale farmers, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, women, youth, social movements, and others from all over the world.

"Their understandings and advocacy arise in the context of an emerging food sovereignty movement that recognizes an essential human right to adequate clean food – food grown in a way that does not poison our environment..."

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http://thecalloftheland.wordpress.com/

[G_j]

1. excellent

very important, thank you!

In case you haven't seen this,
check it out,

http://www.stwr.org/


STWR - Share The World's Resources

STWR has Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).

STWR advocates for essential resources such as food, water and energy to be shared internationally under the agency of the United Nat

[SpiralHawk]

2. Yes, very important indeed

Without hearing from the people of the world, the so-called 'Masters of the World' may well decide that genetically engineered plants and animals -- patented, owned and cortrolled by mega corporations -- are our mandated future. This raises Big Questions, and makes me profoundly uneasy.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Fight over the Future of Food Moves to Rome - special report from Reuters

SPECIAL REPORT-The fight over the future of food
Tue Nov 10, 2009


* Backlash against GM crops complicates bid to feed world

* Is a second Green Revolution needed, or even desirable?

* Backlash against GM crops complicates bid to feed world

* Resistance to science-based agriculture grows in U.S.

* Is a second Green Revolution needed, or even desirable?

... an increasingly acrimonious debate over the future of food.

Everybody wants to end hunger, but just how to do so is a divisive question that pits environmentalists against anti-poverty campaigners, big business against consumers and rich countries against poor.

The food fight takes place at a time when experts on both sides agree on one thing -- the number of empty bellies around the world will only grow unless there is major intervention now.

A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has catapulted the number of hungry people in the world to more than 1 billion. The United Nations says world food output must grow by 70 percent over the next four decades to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people by 2050.

International leaders are gathering in Rome next week for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's World Summit on Food Security and will hear competing arguments over how best to tackle the problem. One of the fiercest disputes will be over the relative importance of science versus social and economic reforms to empower small farmers to grow more with existing technology.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN09174220091110

[G_j]

4. thanks

good article,

[SpiralHawk]

5. Because this is YOUR FOOD we are talking about,

I'm giving this thread another KICK in the belly.

Here I am* (before I really got into shape) giving my Super Special Avoid-Mutant-Food-Crapola Kique-du-Jour:


* in fantasyland

[SpiralHawk]

6. Being a persistent personage...

and feeling that this is a key issue, I am cranking up another kick. This is an opportunity to sign on -- and say what the hell it is you want to eat and how you want it grown -- for yourself and your children.

"You are what you eat." - Tiny Tim

[SpiralHawk]

7. Having indigestion from inadvertantly gobbing up some GMOs

I felt I should unburden myself of Existential Mutant Entity Angst, or whatever, and give this thread a final freakin kick.

[SpiralHawk]

8. "The Right to Food" - statement by UN Special Rapporteur

Olivier De Schutter | United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food


GENEVA / BRUSSELS – Prof. Olivier De Schutter issued a contribution to the preparation of the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security.

Days ahead of the Summit, the negotiations on the Draft Declaration of the Summit are entering their final stage. What is at stake is our ability to take the necessary steps towards a global food system that will make decisive progress towards realizing the human right to adequate food and building our resilience against the risk of future economic shocks and increasing volatility of food prices.

The Declaration should be coherent, ambitious and unambiguous on five issues: the right to food, governance, sustainability, trade, and the strengthening of international cooperation.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B20BYR6gaw8> Message of the Special Rapporteur in advance of the World Summit on Food Security (6 November 2009)

<http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/otherdocuments/20091106_srrtfstatementwsfs_en.pdf> “A Call for Coherence and Responsibility: Realizing the right to food by improving global governance” Message of Mr. Olivier De Schutter, Special Rapporteur on the right to food (6 November 2009)