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Oxfam response to UN Committee on World Food Security Endorsement of Principles
The UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), the central and most inclusive institution of the global governance on food and agriculture issues, today endorsed the Principles on Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems.
At the Committee on World Food Security, despite acknowledging the evidence, the US and the EU refuse to act to eliminate harmful biofuels policies
Despite overwhelming evidence about the negative link between biofuels and food security, countries refused to take action on policies fueling land grabs, prices spikes and hunger.
CFS governments must face up to global thirst for biofuels which spell hunger for millions
Before the opening of the Committee on Food Security’s annual meeting in Rome (7 October), Oxfam called for Governments to ensure that biofuel policies do not force poor farmers off their land and fuel food price spikes.
CFS sets path for greater food security but governments must follow through with action
The UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has delivered solid guidance and important recommendations that governments must now follow through with action.
CFS meeting must face up to high food prices and end the inaction on hunger
With abnormally high food prices and slowing efforts to tackle global hunger, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) must now energize governments to begin fixing the broken global food system, at its annual meeting in Rome from Oct 15 – 20.
Tenure Guidelines are a first step, but much more is needed to ensure peoples’ rights to land and natural resources
The Guidelines on Land, Fisheries and Forests delivered today by the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) are a first essential step but there’s still a long road ahead before peoples’ rights to land, fisheries and forests are fully recognized and respected.
Governments must show political will to tackle hunger at Rome Committee on World Food Security meeting
International agency Oxfam calls on governments meeting at the UN’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome to show the political will and take action to tackle the root causes of hu
World food prices near record high: Oxfam reaction
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has just published its food price index which shows a sharp rise in
Oxfam reaction to Hillary Clinton’s Speech at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, 6 May 2011
In response to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Speech at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Eric Munoz, Policy Advisor for Oxfam said:
Signs of hope that international community might be getting its act together to end world hunger, says Oxfam
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