Overview of the outcomes and declarations of the FAO – Civil society Regional Consultation for Europe (Innsbruck, 23-24 June 2008)

The Regional FAO-Civil society Consultation for the European Region was held on the 23th and 24th of June in Innsbrück. More than 40 participants from 17 countries (old and new EU members, but also from Georgia, Turkey and Armenia) discussed the 3 following issues: how to face the food prices crisis in the Region and in the world; the climate change and agriculture; and the contribution of regional traditional food and agricultural products to the development of the Region. The Consultation was chaired by Mrs Irmi Salzer, from the Austrian organization ÖBV Via Campesina Austria.

Three declarations were produced by the participants on these issues that were published in a single document (to download). A delegation was invited by the FAO Director General Jacques Diouf and could discuss these issues with him on Wednesday morning.

A side event was organized by FIAN International and FIAN Autria on the implications of the actual situation on the right to food on Wednesday midday.

The outcomes of the Consultation were presented in the morning during the FAO Conference on the 26th of June by Mrs Irmi Salzer, the chair of the Consultation. Other further declarations were presented by other participants of the Consultation, Mr Abgar Yeghoyian (Protect the consumers’ rights - Armenia) and Patrick Mulvany (Practical action -UK).

The direct link to the declaration on the CSA website is the following :
http://www.csa-be.org/IMG/doc_InnsbruckCSOconsultation.doc

Available documents of the Consultation

All the documents presented here are available on the CSA website at the following address :
http://www.csa-be.org/spip.php?article127

Final declaration of the Consultation

Other basical documents
- Definitive Programme with speakers
- List of participants
- Invitation to the side event organized by FIAN International
- Sponsors of the European Consultation

Presentations of the speakers
- De la Torre Food Sovereignty, environment and climate change
- FAO REU Adaptation to the Climate change
- Feret CAP and support to traditional regional food and agricultural products
- CAP 2013 Feret Sustainability
- FIAN Klaffenbock Sustainability
- FOE Bebb Feeding and fuelling Europe
- Greenpeace Tirado Global warming
- Agricultural Chambers of Tyrol Hechenberger Agriculture in Tyrol
- Elkana Jordaze Policies to promote traditional regional agricultural products and food in non-EU Countries
- Practical action Mulvany Agroecology
- Practical action Mulvany Models of production
- OBV Salzer CAP Health Check
- OBV Salzer Short food supply
- CSA VDS Impact milk quotas
- CSA VDS Stocks and prices
- Protection of Consumers’ Rights Yeghoyan Price monitoring regional initiative

Documents to be published later
- Final report of the Consultation

Daniel Van Der Steen
Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires (Collective for Food Strategies)
International Planning Committee (IPC) for Food Sovereignty
Geographical Focal Point for Europe
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Website : http://www.csa-be.org

Complete list of the documents to download and available format

·  Final declaration of the FAO-civil society Consultation for the European Region (Document Word - 50.5kb)

·  Invitation to the side event organized by FIAN International (Document Word - 99kb)

·  Definitive agenda with speakers (Document Word - 78kb)

·  Sponsors of the European Consultation (Document Word - 45.5kb)

·  List of participants of the Consultation (Document Word - 108kb)

·  The University of Tennessee De la Torre Food Sovereignty, environment and climate change (Document PDF - 859.9kb)

·  FAO REU Adaptation to the Climate change (Document PDF - 43.1kb)

·  CAP 2013 Feret CAP and support to traditional regional food and agricultural products (Document PDF - 432.5kb)

·  CAP 2013 Feret Sustainability (Document PDF - 1.2Mb)

·  FIAN Klaffenbock Sustainability (Document PDF - 100.2kb)

·  FOE Bebb Feeding and fuelling Europe (Document PDF - 334.4kb)

·  Greenpeace Tirado Global warming (Document PDF - 1.1Mb)

·  Agricultural Chambers of Tyrol Hechenberger Agriculture in Tyrol (Document PDF - 668.2kb)

·  Elkana Jordaze Policies to promote traditional regional agricultural products and food in non-EU Countries (Document PDF - 1.4Mb)

·  Practical action Mulvany Agroecology (Document PDF - 832.3kb)

·  Practical action Mulvany Models of production (Document PDF - 511kb)

·  OBV Salzer CAP Health Check (Document PDF - 153.2kb)

·  OBV Salzer Short food supply (Document PDF - 203.7kb)

·  CSA VDS Impact milk quotas (Document Word - 60kb)

·  CSA VDS World stocks and prices (Document PDF - 78.3kb)

·  Protection of Consumers’ Rights Yeghoyan Price monitoring regional initiative (Document PDF - 181.8kb)