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 The third World Summit on Food Security, held from 16-18 November 2009 at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy, ended early Wednesday afternoon. Representatives from 23 countries and UN agencies made statements. Delegates attended a parallel round table on the role of rural development, smallholder farmers and trade to enhance global food security. Prior to the Summit’s closure, delegates heard summaries of the declarations and charters adopted at pre-summit events held by parliamentarians, the private sector, NGOs and civil society, and the Second Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) First Ladies Summit. They also heard summaries of the Summit’s four round tables. Following a closing statement by FAO General-Director Jacques Diouf, the Summit closed at 12:44pm.
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| Gerda Verburg, Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands |
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| Eva Kjer Hansen,
Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries of Denmark |
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| Sirkka-Liisa Anttila, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of Finland |
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The third World Summit on Food Security opened on 16 November 2009 at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy. Following the inaugural ceremony, Heads of Delegations adopted the World Summit on Food Security Declaration. Heads of Delegation from 44 countries and UN organizations, as well as His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, then made statements in a plenary session throughout the day. In the afternoon, delegates convened in a parallel round table on the impacts of food, economic and financial crises on food security.
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| Muammar El-Gheddafi, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, spoke of the debt owed to Africa by former colonial powers. |
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| Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, emphasized the basic right to food, and the indivisibility of food security from sustainable development. |
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| His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, lamented the weakness of current food security mechanisms, and urged better market access for poor countries. |
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FAO resources
Meeting website
Provisional programme
Documents
Pre-Summit events
Connected events
Round tables
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Development and Climate Days at UNFCCC COP 14, 6-7 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS coverage of the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, 3-5 June 2008, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of the Global Renewable Energy Forum, 18-21 May 2008, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
IISD RS coverage of the International Conference on Renewable Energy in Africa, 16-18 April 2008, Dakar, Senegal
IISD RS coverage of the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference 2008 (WIREC 2008), 4-6 March 2008, Washington, DC, United States of America
IISD RS summary report of the Seventh Meeting of the Global Forum on Sustainable Energy (GFSE-7) - “Energy Efficiency for Developing Countries”, 21-23 November 2007, Vienna, Austria (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the First High-level Biofuels Seminar in Africa, 30 July - 1 August 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
African Regional Coverage
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