Conference FAO/NGOs-CSOs NEW!

The Regional FAO-Civil society Consultation for the European Region was held on the 23th and 24th of June in Innsbruck. More than 40 participants from 17 countries (old and new EU members, but also from Georgia, Turkey and Armenia) discussed the 3 following issues: how to face the food prices crisis in the Region and in the world; the climate change and agriculture; and the contribution of regional traditional food and agricultural products to the development of the Region. Thanks to the Heinrich Böll Foundation and miseror seven experts from the EcoFair Trade dialogue entered the FAO consultation process thus expanding our regards. [More...]

 

Food Crisis

 

The Homemade Food Crisis

 

That more than 854 million people in the world suffer hunger today is not due to a lack of food, but simply because so many people in the world cannot afford to buy enough of it. Given that the poor spend up to 80 percent of their income on food and that prices rose more than 57% in the past year alone (between March 2007 and March 2008), we can expect that the number of hungry people will continue to rise due to recent price trends. By Christine Chemnitz and Mute Schimpf  [More…]

 

About the EcoFair Trade Project

The EcoFair Trade Dialogue is a project carried out by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Misereor in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute. The overall aim of the project is to enrich and influence the debate on the reform of the current multilateral regime of international agricultural trade through the development and advancement of forward looking guidelines and instruments which respond to the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges to global agriculture. [More…]

 

>> Find some backround articles published by the organizers

 

 

Dialogue Process

The dialogue process involves selected experts, representatives of a broad range of civil society organizations, as well as policy makers. The project started in 2005 as a dialogue within a core group of experts from different regions of the world, the so-called “Expert Panel“. These experts developed reform proposals to be recorded in a set of policy papers. In addition views from policy makers are fed into this dialogue through an “International Consultative Board”. [More…]

 

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