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What kind of food provision should More and Better promote? Join the debate in the MaB general meeting.

 More and Better has the pleasure to invite members and friends to take part in their general global meeting to be held Thursday 7th and Friday 8th October at FAO headquarters, in Rome. The meeting is scheduled prior to the 36 session of the FAO committee on World Food Security and CSOs initiatives linked to it.

  • The final declaration of FAO CSOs/NGOs Consultation in Yerevan, Armenia

    On 10th and 11th May 2010, 44 CSOs and NGOs, representing national organizations from 10 countries and 9 international organizations of the Region Europe and Central Asia (including More and Better), gathered in Yerevan before the Regional FAO Conference. They discussed issues on the agenda of the 27th FAO Regional Conference for Europe and the relationships between FAO and Civil Society. The Consultation came to a consensus on a number of key issues of common concerns; the final declaration and other useful documents are available at: http://www.csa-be.org/spip.php?article678

  • Focusing on the quality of aid to agriculture. More and Better presents its new publication.

    There is an urgent need for more support to agriculture and rural development, but not all support can be a good one. Sometimes less aid is better than more. Both governments in developing countries and donor countries are now giving some more support to agriculture and rural development – even if it is still very little. Will this support sustainable agriculture or an agriculture model which contributes to climate change, loss of biodiversity and soil degradation?

  • Common actions for commitments to eradicate hunger and malnutrition

    Many organizations will cooperate and advocate together to strengthen the fight against hunger. One key element will be to try to get governments to make plans for how they will fulfill their commitments to half the number of hungry people by 2015 and to eradicate hunger and malnutrition as soon as possible.  We hope that many organizations will take part in this work.

    Download the invitation letter to take part in this work here (Word document)

    Read the background document here (Word document)

  • Policies and actions to eradicate hunger and malnutrition.

    A billion people are hungry and the number increases. Women are especially hard hit. There is an urgent need for shift in policies and actions. The documents presented at www.eradicatehunger.org provide proposals for policies and actions to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. They are based on the experiences and political work of social movements, non governmental organisations (NGOs) and others from all over the world during past decades and currently. It is based largely on the food sovereignty framework that embraces the human right to adequate food. Organisations and individuals are invited to sign on to the open letter and summary of the working document.

    Please click on the Eradicate Hunger! website to read the documents and sign on them.

     

  • FAO initiates debate on declaration for World Summit on Food Security

    FAO Director-General, Jacques Diouf, has invited governments around the world to participate in negotiations to agree on a declaration for adoption by the World Summit of Heads of State and Government on Food Security, to take place from 16 to 18 November 2009 in Rome. To initiate the negotiation process, Jacques Diouf has sent a document to Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Development Cooperation and Agriculture of members of FAO and the United Nations.

  • Peoples’ Comprehensive Framework for Action to Eradicate Hunger: first draft available

    The very first draft of the "People' Comprehensive Framework for Action To Eradicate Hunger" is now available in English, French and Spanish. We do encourage as many organizations as possible to contribute to the development of the document. Inputs and comments will be collected until the 1st of September.

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  • Declaration from governments to eradicate hunger and malnutrition

    A group of individuals and organizations is now working on promoting an initiative for a declaration of commitment by governments to eradicate hunger and malnutrition by 2025.

  • Take part in creating a peoples’ framework to eradicate hunger!

    The organizations of the More and Better campaign are now cooperating with the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) for developing a peoples’ framework to eradicate hunger. This framework will be presented to governments, international institutions and media in October, in Rome at the meeting of FAO’s Committee for World Food Security. Aksel Naerstad, the international coordinator of More and Better encourages people and organizations who are working with hunger, the right to food, food security and sovereignty to send in their views, proposals, etc as soon as possible.

  • The Farmers’ Organizations of Africa address the G8 Agricuture

    On 14 and 15 April 2009 five African regional networks of farmers’ organizations (EAFF, PROPAC, ROPPA, SACAU, UMAGRI) have meet in Rome in order to adopt a Common Declaration on the state of african agriculture addressed to the G8 Agriculture that took place in the province of Treviso from 18 to 20 April 2009.

  • Pathways to resilience: smallholder farmers and the future of agriculture

    This discussion paper is the result of the efforts of Canadian Food Security Policy Group  to examine how the work of our partners in the South might inform Canada's response to the Global Food Crisis. It argues that this response must acknowledge the central role of smallholder agriculture and its long-term sustainability and resilience. A series of six case studies have been written to accompany this discussion paper.