Overall this first G20 Ag Min meeting failed to make strong enough decisions to avert the looming food crisis. There are a few elements of the Action Plan that we welcome.
This morning I joined a demonstration in Paris where farmers organizations and NGOs were defending food sovereignty and governments concrete actions to prevent a new food crisis. ...
The end of a long day. My supper has just squawked it’s way past my window in this little guesthouse in Kyuso, over an hour’s drive from Mwingi. We managed to corner the regional manager of the...
The G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting is happening this week in Paris, and our international team of policy experts are there to remind world leaders of their responsibilities.
PHOTO CALL: Around 40 smallholder farmers from around the world (Austria, France, Belgium, Brazil, Bolivia etc) and representatives of agricultural organisations and civil society will gather tomorrow – to send a message to the G20 Agriculture Ministers 22 & 23 June, Paris
In the village of Nanaba in the Central River Region of The Gambia, the villagers were seated under a big mango tree. They were all men. In an unusually hot climate in this part of the country, the...
Yesterday, I went with a few other ActionAid staff and some French civil society groups to meet the host of the first gathering of G20 Agriculture Ministers later this week in Paris, French Minister...
I arrived yesterday in Paris to follow the G20 Agriculture ministers´ meeting which will happen this week. Today a number of NGOs had a meeting with host of the ministerial, the French Minister of...
Food Files is a magazine published by ActionAid and IFSN, and it aims to promote critical and fruitful discussion around food security issues. The magazine features various articles on the right to...