Alberta Guerra

ActionAid International and International Food Security Network (IFSN) Food Policy Officer, Rome.

Food Policy Officer, ActionAid International

I’m an ActionAid International and International Food Security Network (IFSN) Food Policy Officer based in Rome. Since joining ActionAid in November 2009, I have been closely monitoring  global food policy debates and engaging in civil society struggles for a better and inclusive governance of food.

Latest blogs

Demystifying the Committee on Food Security

The food crises of 2007 and 2008 revealed a vacuum in global governance on food security, as a flurry of different actors scrambled to find ways to help countries respond. The G8 launched the Aquila...
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Alberta Guerra

FAO says hunger is falling – just not quickly enough

Last week in Rome, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced that there are almost 870 million people chronically undernourished in the world. Controversially though, the FAO also...
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Alberta Guerra

The final adoption of The Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure of Land, Forests, Fisheries

Last Friday 11 of May was a bright day in Rome for me, my colleagues and for millions of poor rural people and small scale farmers whose rights of access to natural resources were recognized for the...
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Alberta Guerra

History made in Rome: a real coup for land rights globally

On Friday May 11 more than one hundred member states of the UN Committee on Food Security (CFS) endorsed  the Voluntary Guidelines on the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests....
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Alberta Guerra

The CFS concludes.. with ups and downs

The CFS negotiations ended on Saturday night with the adoption of the final report – and we should be proud of ourselves for our intensive efforts to put small-scale farmer’s needs at the centre of...
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Alberta Guerra

And the CFS begins..

The 37th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) started yesterday and started off with a bang as we attended a Civil Society side event where the main policy asks for the plenary...
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Alberta Guerra
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