North American Civil Society Consultation on the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment

The North American regional representatives to the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) of the Committee on World Food Security of the Food and Agriculture Organization extend an open invitation to civil society organizations to participate in a discussion of the zero draft of the Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI). The RAI are being created to ensure that agricultural investment is undertaken in a manner that supports the universal realization of the right to food, enhances food security and nutrition, reduces poverty, and promotes sustainable agricultural development. The discussion and resulting recommendations on the draft principles will be shared out to the Committee on Food Security’s Open-ended Working Group at its next meeting in September.

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Date & Time
Monday, September 16, 11:30am-4:00pm
Location & Directions
American University, Washington College of Law, 4800 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Room 603, Washington DC

Parking is available at the Washington College of Law. Visitors can also reach the campus via the metro by taking the Red Line to the Tenley metro stop, then taking the American University bus (no charge) to the law school campus. When exiting the Tenley station, proceed directly out and across the street to the designated AU bus stop.

For more information about the Civil Society Mechanism and the Principles visit https://www.csm4cfs.org/.

Agenda


11:30am-12:00pm	Registration and lunch
12:00pm-12:05pm	Welcome	Hadar Harris - Executive Director Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
12:05pm-12:15pm	Opening Remarks	Brother Dave Andrews - Senior Representative - Food and Water Watch and North American Representative to the CSM
12:15-12:45pm	Overview of the reform of the Committee on World Food Security and elaboration of structures and intergovernmental decision-making processes	Brother Dave Andrews - Senior Representative - Food and Water Watch and North American Representative to the CSM
12:45pm-1:15pm	Issues of the Committee on World Food Security: Tenure guidelines right to food social protections and bio fuels	Marie Brill - Executive Director - Action Aid
1:15pm-1:45pm	Update on the zero draft of the Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI): Civil society - U.S. Government and Canadian Government perspectives	Douglas Hertzler - Senior Policy Analyst - Action Aid
1:45pm-2:00pm	Coffee Break
2:00pm-3:30pm	Open discussion of the RAI	Facilitator: Karen Hansen-Kuhn - International Program Director - IATP
3:30pm-4:00pm	Recommendations to the Open-ended Working Group and strategies for North American civil society organizations	Facilitator: Matthew Canfield - PhD Candidate - Department of Anthropology - New York University

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