Confronting the Global Food Challenge
The conference Confronting the Global Food Challenge: finding new approaches to trade and investment that support the right to food was held on 24-26 November 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland. It brought together more than 130 people from 40 countries, predominantly countries in the Global South. Participants included representatives from farmer and peasant associations, fisherfolk, food workers unions, environmentalists, consumer groups, trade and development NGOs, human rights organizations, churches, fair trade organizations, and women’s groups.
Along with the EAA, the other initiators of the conference were FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). The conference was held under the auspices of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. It was co-organized by a broad group of civil society organizations including: ActionAid, Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), Brot für Alle, Brot für die Welt, Canadian Food Security Policy Group, East and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF), Eco-Fair Trade Dialogue, Equipo Pueblo-Social Watch Mexico, ESCR-Net, International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN), Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organization of West Africa (ROPPA), NIYEL, Oxfam International, Social Watch, Working Group in Trade and Agriculture (Hemispheric Social Alliance), World Alliance of YMCAs, and the World Council of Churches.
Armin Paasch - World Agricultural Trade and Human Rights: Case Studies on Violations of the Right to Food of Small Farmers EN, FR, ES
Carin Smaller and Sophia Murphy - Bridging the DivideEN, ES
lveda Carmona - An Overview of Human Rights Instruments to Raise Concerns About Trade and Investment Policies EN, FR, ES
Olivier de Schutter - A Human Rights Approach to Trade and Investment Policies, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food EN, ES
Carin Smaller et Sophia Murphy - Une vision du commerce alimentaire mondial FR
Adwoa Sakyi, A Human Rights Vision for Confronting the Global Food EN
Aileen Kwa Food, What is Happening in the World? The Multilateral Trading
System EN
Carin Smaller, Trading system that supports the right to food EN
David Miller, The Global Response to the Food Crisis EN
David Nabarro,UN Taskforce on the Food Crisis EN
Elvira Dominguez, Human rights instruments EN
Eriberto Americo Ayala, Communities Confront the Food Crisis - Paraguay EN
Fautso Torres,A Human Rights Vision for Confronting the Global Food EN
Jane Nalunga, What is Happening in the World? Regional FTAs/EPAs EN
Kesinee Kwaenjaroen, Communities Confront the Food Crisis - Thailand EN
Lim LiLin, What is Happening in the World? Climate Change and
Agriculture, EN
Olovierde Schutter, New Approaches to Trade and Investment that
Support the Right to Food EN
Pascal Lamy, WTO Director-General EN
Peter Wahl, What is Happening in the World? The Financial Crisis and
the Right to Food, EN
Pius Owino Otieno, Communities Confront the Food Crisis - Kenya EN
Sophia Murphy, Eco-Fair Trade Dialogue to respond on a model of
investment that supports the right to food EN
Teresita Vistro, Communities Confront the Food Crisis EN
Vice Yu,What is Happening in the World? Bilateral Investment Treaties EN
Micheal Windfuhr, A Human Rights Vision for Confronting the Global Food EN
