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SUMMARY OF MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS
ELECTION OF THE CHAIRPERSON, VICE-CHAIRPERSONS AND APPOINTMENT OF RAPPORTEUR
ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND TIMETABLE
STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL
FOLLOW-UP TO THE WORLD FOOD SUMMIT AND WORLD FOOD SUMMIT: fyl
FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY IN EUROPE
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH: ITS ROLE AND
CONTRIBUTION TO SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT
REVIEW OF THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE IN THE REGION:FOCUS ON RURAL POVERTY
REPORT ON FAO ACTIVITIES IN THE REGION, 2002-03
INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF RICE: 2004
PROGRAMME FOR BRIDGING THE RURAL DIGITAL DIVIDE TO REDUCE FOOD INSECURITY AND POVERTY
DATE, PLACE AND MAIN THEMES OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH FAO REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR EUROPE
APPENDICES
STATEMENT OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL
Follow-up to the World Food Summit and World Food Summit: five years later
For the attention of Governments
The Conference underlined:
1. Regular monitoring of implementation of the goals of the World Food Summit (WFS) as an important part of the fight against hunger and malnutrition (para. 15 (a));
2. Agricultural development as an engine of economic growth and an essential component to reduce poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (para. 15 (b));
3. The need to prioritize rural development and food security issues in national development strategies (para. 15 (d));
4. The importance of strengthening competitiveness of agriculture and non-agriculture sectors to raise rural incomes (para. 15(e));
5. Good governance, enhancing the capacity of governments and administrations, and the prevention of conflict as essential factors for achieving food security (para. 15(g));
6. The importance of land rights, land markets and an enabling environment for rural entrepreneurs, access to markets, credits, market information, advisory services and proper infrastructure (para. 15(i));
7. The importance of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture as a tool to support the conservation of plant genetic resources and to encourage benefit sharing (para. 15(q)).
For the attention of FAO
The Conference underlined:
8. The importance of FAO’s work, both normative and operational in the European Region to support policy assistance and capacity building (para. 15(p));
9. The leading role of FAO in the Collaborative Partnerships on Forests and the support of the Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of the Forests in Europe as well as the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests/Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (para. 15(r)).
Food Safety and Quality in Europe
For the attention of Governments
The Conference:
10. Reaffirmed that food safety was a universal and non-negotiable right (para. 20(a));
11. Confirmed recommendations endorsed by the FAO/WHO Pan European Conference on Food Safety and Quality (Budapest, 2002) (para. 20(b));
12. Agreed that food quality was not limited to food safety, but included nutritional and added-value characteristics such as forms of production (oriented to environmental protection, animal welfare and biodiversity) and production areas (designation of origin) (para. 20(c));
13. Agreed that traditional products and designation of origin, carefully controlled, could help to sustain employment in rural areas and contribute to rural development in both developed and developing countries (para. 20(d));
14. Stressed that control systems and a risk analysis approach could help to improve food safety (para. 20(g)).
For the attention of FAO
The Conference:
15. Stressed the importance of FAO technical assistance in capacity building in food safety in order to comply with international food standards (para. 21);
16. Requested that FAO assistance should focus on the fundamental need to assess the food composition, including the content of traditional foods for achieving food quality and nutritional balance and avoiding nutrition caused diseases (obesity, overweight, malnutrition) (para. 24).
Agricultural Research: Its role and contribution to sustainable rural development
For the attention of Governments
The Conference:
17. Confirmed the emphasis on sustainable agriculture and rural development based on the needs of rural communities and their importance to society as a whole (para. 27(a));
18. Acknowledged the various roles of agriculture and the importance of a competitive farming sector (para. 27(b));
19. Recognized the need to broaden agricultural research to include rural development and research on impact assessment of the revised Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to conduct more interdisciplinary research (para. 27(c));
20. Confirmed the importance of renewing the focus on agricultural and rural development in the development assistance to developing countries to reduce poverty and hunger (para. 27(d));
21. Underlined the need for special attention to revitalize agricultural research and to increase relevant resources in the development assistance to developing countries to reduce poverty and hunger (para. 27(e));
22. Recognized the role of the European research networks and urged the need to refocus them to promote multidisciplinary research supporting sustainable rural development throughout Europe (para. 27(f));
23. Noted that the new EU member countries could facilitate coordination of further collaboration of the EU with Balkan and CIS countries in research and technology (para. 30).
For the attention of FAO
The Conference:
24. Requested FAO to assist in monitoring the sustainability of European research networks and should facilitate CEE and CIS countries to establish linkages to international networks and access to international collaboration in agriculture research (para. 28);
25. Noted the need for further support to new EU member countries in restructuring research institutions and in establishing private research (para. 30).
Report on FAO Activities in the Region, 2002-03
For the attention of Governments
The Conference:
26. Urged Member Nations, who had not yet established a National Codex Committee, to make efforts to do so (para. 41);
27. Stressed that ensuring land tenure was important for the development of the agriculture and rural sectors (para. 42).
For the attention of FAO
The Conference:
28. Stressed that FAO activities in the European region were of paramount importance in assisting a number of countries to meet the challenges in agricultural and rural development (para. 37);
29. Expressed its satisfaction with the increased FAO collaboration with other international organizations as well as its cooperation with European NGOs, and requested this collaboration be further developed and strengthened (para. 38);
30. Urged FAO to strengthen its activities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (para. 39);
31. Underlined that the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EUFMD) was a valuable resource in assisting European countries in combating this serious transboundary disease (para. 40);
32. Welcomed the work of FAO in the area of land management and overall natural resource management (para. 42);
33. Emphasized the importance of policy assistance and institution capacity building and welcomed FAO’s work in this area (para. 43);
34. Welcomed the activities undertaken by FAO in the areas of fisheries and forestry (para. 44);
35. Endorsed the recommendations contained in the document to strengthen agricultural production by supporting non-farm income generation activities in the framework of integrated rural development, including grass-roots level development and policy assistance at local level (para. 45);
36. Welcomed the attention given to the new emerging issues such as organic farming, biotechnology and biosafety as well as assistance to transition countries in their efforts for EU integration (para. 45).
Programme for Bridging the Rural Digital Divide to
Reduce Food Insecurity and Poverty
For the attention of Governments
The Conference noted that:
37. More attention would need to be given to vulnerable groups to prevent their exclusion (para. 52(a));
38. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) was a powerful tool to be used for poverty reduction and to increase food security achieving the MDG, and to promote local democracy, transparency and accountability (para. 52(b));
39. ICT should be implemented with a high degree of partnership among the various stakeholders (para. 52(c).
For the attention of FAO
The Conference:
40. Stressed that FAO should focus its ITC efforts on areas with a comparative advantage and coordinate closely with other UN agencies within the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) (para. 52(e);
41. Urged that donors and international organizations, including FAO, should assist in bridging the digital divide by incorporating their activities into national e-strategies within national poverty reduction programmes (para. 54).
Date, Place and Main Theme(s) of the Twenty-fifth FAO Regional Conference for Europe
For the attention of Governments
The Conference:
42. Welcomed the renewed offer extended by the Delegation of Latvia to host the next Conference and also welcomed the offer extended by the Delegation of Austria to host the 26th Regional Conference for Europe in that country (para. 58).
For the attention of FAO
The Conference:
43. Agreed that both offers should be conveyed to the Director-General for decision in consultation with the Members of the Region (para. 58);
44. Unanimously endorsed the statement made by the Delegation of Ireland to the effect that, given the recent enlargement of the European Union and the changes taking place within the wider region, the European Community and its twenty five member states was of the opinion that it was now opportune to reassess the objectives and format of the Regional Conference for Europe as well as of the European Commission on Agriculture (ECA) (para. 59);
45. Agreed that the Executive Committee of the ECA be mandated to examine how future conferences should be organized, with a view to presenting proposals for changes for the consideration of the European Regional Group during the preparation for the next (25th) FAO Regional Conference for Europe (para. 60);
46. Further agreed that the Executive Committee should consider how the Regional Conference for Europe could best meet the needs of the membership and increase its relevance to the changing situation in the European Region (para. 61);
47. Stressed that the Regional Conference for Europe should continue to facilitate debate on themes of relevance to the entire European Region and attract a high level of participation (para. 61).
4. The Chairman of the Interministerial Committee on Food and Agriculture of France, Mr Alain Pierret, welcomed participants to the Conference on behalf of the Government of France and expressed deep regrets that His Excellency, Hervé Gaymard, Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Rural Affairs of France, was not able to attend the ceremony. He stressed the importance of the conference in the new enlarged Europe where the rural sector is still a key component and the long tradition of France in agriculture. In referring to the Agenda of the Conference, the Chairperson indicated that it included items of great importance to the Region and the Country.
5. The Conference unanimously elected the delegation of France as Chairperson.
6. The delegations of the following countries were elected as Vice-Chairpersons:
7. Mr Francisco Martínez Arroyo, Alternate Permanent Representative of Spain to FAO, was elected Rapporteur.
9. The Director-General delivered his Statement to the Conference, the text of which is given in Appendix C to this report.
10. The item, introduced by the Secretariat, highlighted the FAO initiatives to alleviate poverty and the dimension of food security as well as the need for coherent and consistent action in the fight against hunger.
11. Heads of Delegation, as well as a representative from the Regional FAO/NGOs-CSOs Consultation for Europe2 who highlighted the outcome of the Consultation’s debate on this item, intervened on this agenda item.
12. The Conference expressed concern at the slow progress in meeting the goal of the World Food Summit to half the number of undernourished people in the world by 2015, and that on the basis of current reduction results, there was danger of not meeting the target.
14. The Conference welcomed the renewed commitment by the EC and its member states through multilateral institutions to ensure the focus on poverty reduction.
15. The Conference underlined the following points:
a) Regular monitoring of the implementation of the goals of the World Food Summit (WFS) was an important part of the fight against hunger and malnutrition.
b) Development of agriculture as the engine of economic growth was an essential component to reduce poverty and achieve the MDG.
c) The importance of policy coherence as a means through which the MDG could be achieved.
d) The need to prioritize rural development and food security issues in national development strategies.
e) The importance of strengthening competitiveness of agriculture and non-agriculture sectors to raise rural incomes.
f) The importance of economic growth and sustainable development solutions were vital for poverty alleviation.
g) Good governance, enhancing the capacity of governments and administrations, and the prevention of conflict were essential factors in achieving food security.
h) The impact of HIV/AIDS on food security.
i) The need for land rights, land markets and an enabling environment for rural entrepreneurs, access to markets, credits, market information, advisory services and proper infrastructure.
j) The lack of nutrition education and the unhealthy composition of diets as reasons for the dual burdens of undernutrition/obesity.
k) The need to provide precise nutritional information and to improve nutrition education.
l) International cooperation, including support to the multilateral system, played a vital role in combating food insecurity.
m) Effectiveness of food aid was essential, but it should not impair local and regional production and markets.
n) The UN Hunger Task Force and the on-going work of the Intergovernmental Working Group for the elaboration of a set of Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security were essential.
o) The Maputo Declaration of the African Union marked a significant, progressive step with its commitment to devote at least ten percent of the national budgets to the agriculture sector.
p) Importance of FAO’s work - both normative and operational - in the European Region to support policy assistance and capacity building.
q) The importance of the ratification and implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture as a tool to support the conservation of plant genetic resources and to encourage benefit sharing.
r) The leading role of FAO in the Collaborative Partnerships on Forests and the support of the Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of the Forests in Europe as well as the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests/Intergovernmental Forum on Forests.
16. The Conference expressed its appreciation for the document prepared on this item which highlighted the main causes of food insecurity in the European Region, including natural disasters and man-made conflicts and endorsed the recommendations contained in the document.
17. Member Nations reiterated their commitment to achieving WFS goals in the European Region.
18. The item, introduced by the Secretariat, provided an overview of the different approaches to concepts of food quality. The importance of consumer information and participation was stressed as well as the role of the public and private sectors in the control of quality standards.
19. Heads of Delegation, as well as a representative from the Regional FAO/NGOs-CSOs Consultation for Europe4 who presented an outcome of the debate which took place on this item during the Consultation, intervened on this agenda item.
20. During the ensuing discussion, Member Nations:
a) Reaffirmed that food safety was a universal and non-negotiable right.
b) Confirmed recommendations endorsed by the FAO/WHO Pan European Conference on Food Safety and Quality (Budapest, 2002).
c) Agreed that food quality was not limited to food safety, but included nutritional and added-value characteristics such as forms of production (oriented to environmental protection, animal welfare and biodiversity) and production areas (designation of origin).
d) Agreed that traditional products and designation of origin, carefully controlled, could help to sustain employment in rural areas and contribute to rural development in both developed and developing countries.
e) Noted that the current average diet of the European population was far from ideal (increased occurrence of obesity) and that promotion of quality, combined with effective education, could assist in improving this situation.
f) Emphasized the importance of providing information on food quality, which implied the active involvement of all stakeholders from producers to consumers.
g) Stressed that control systems and a risk analysis approach could help to improve food safety.
h) Underlined the need to define the concept of traceability in food safety as fundamental for consumer health.
21. Some delegates from non-EU countries stressed the importance of FAO technical assistance in capacity building in food safety in order to comply with international food standards.
22. The need to develop objective parameters to define various aspects of quality was emphasized by some members.
23. The Conference commended the document5 prepared on this item and endorsed its recommendations on food safety and quality.
24. FAO’s assistance was requested to focus on the fundamental need to assess the food composition, including the content of traditional foods for achieving food quality and nutritional balance and avoiding nutrition caused diseases (obesity, overweight, malnutrition).
32. Under this item, the Secretariat highlighted that poverty in Europe and Central Asia had increased during the 1990s but was in general less than in other regions. However, in the poorer countries poverty was as severe as in poor areas of the developing world. In the European Region poverty was concentrated in the Western Balkans and Commonwealth of Independent States.
33. The absence in the document of specific proposals on poverty alleviation in the region was commented upon by the EC. It was also noted that the effects of agricultural growth on poverty depended on linkages within the agricultural sector and between agriculture and other sectors.
34. The Conference noted that poverty existed on a wide scale in the region.
35. The Conference was informed of the efforts deployed by Member Nations to alleviate poverty in rural areas through support to agriculture and rural development.
37. The Conference welcomed the document and stressed that FAO activities in the European region were of paramount importance in assisting a number of countries to meet the challenges in agriculture and rural development.
38. The Conference expressed its satisfaction on the increased collaboration of FAO with other international organizations as well as the cooperation with European NGOs and requested that such collaboration be further developed and strengthened.
39. The Conference welcomed the ratification by nine of the then fifteen member states of the EC and four of the new member states of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture by 31 March 2004. It urged FAO to strengthen its activities to implement the Treaty.
40. The Conference underlined that the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EUFMD) was a valuable resource in assisting European countries in combating this serious transboundary disease.
41. The Conference urged Member Nations which had not yet established a National Codex Committee, to make efforts to do so.
42. The Conference welcomed the work of FAO in the area of land management and overall natural resource management.
43. The Conference emphasized the importance of policy assistance and institutional capacity building and welcomed FAO’s work in this regard.
44. The Conference welcomed the activities undertaken by FAO in the areas of fisheries and forestry.
45. The Conference endorsed the recommendations contained in the document to strengthen agricultural production by supporting non-farm income generation activities in the framework of integrated rural development, including grass-roots level development and policy assistance at local level. It further welcomed the attention given to the new emerging issues such as organic farming, biotechnology and biosafety as well as assistance to transition countries in their efforts for EU integration.
46. The Hungarian Delegation informed the Conference about the reconstruction of the building currently housing the Subregional Office in Budapest and requested consideration of its hosting a bigger unit, like the FAO Regional Office for Europe.
47. The Conference was informed that on the occasion of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Committee for Europe (September 2004, Bratislava) European member countries of Codex would be able to participate in a workshop organized by the Netherlands and Slovakia, on the enhancement of a national Codex Committee.
48. The Conference took note of the offer by Austria to host the 17th FAO/ECA WPW Expert Meeting on Gender and Rural Development in June 2004.
d) Specific design and targeting of interventions were needed to ensure equitable and affordable access for the poor and marginalized.
e) FAO should focus its ITC efforts on areas with a comparative advantage and coordinate closely with other UN agencies within the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).
55. The item was introduced by the Secretariat, which provided an overview on FAO assistance in updating national agricultural and rural development strategies and policies since the World Food Summit as part of an effort to assist Member Nations in setting strategies for attaining their WFS commitments. It was stressed that twenty Member Nations had received assistance in formulating agricultural and rural development strategies since 1993. The primary focus of assistance had been technical capacity building for formulation of sustainable agricultural and rural development policies within the overall framework of EU accession and Poverty Reduction Strategy Policies.
56. The Conference welcomed this document outlining FAO’s important role in providing policy advice to governments and administrations of the region.
57. The Conference requested FAO to continue its activities focussing on long-term capacity building for technical matters and policy formulation.
DATE, PLACE AND MAIN THEME(S) OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH FAO REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR EUROPE
58.The Conference welcomed the renewed offer extended by the Delegation of Latvia to host the next Conference. The Conference also welcomed the offer extended by the Delegation of Austria to host the 26th Regional Conference for Europe. The Conference agreed that both offers should be conveyed to the Director-General for decision in consultation with the Members of the Region.
59. The Conference unanimously endorsed the statement made by the Delegation of Ireland to the effect that, given the recent enlargement of the European Union and the changes taking place within the wider region, the European Community and its twenty five member states were of the opinion that it was now opportune to reassess the objectives and format of the Regional Conference for Europe as well as of the European Commission on Agriculture (ECA), the technical preparatory body for the regional conference.
60. The Conference agreed that the Executive Committee of the ECA be mandated to examine how future conferences should be organized, with a view to presenting proposals for changes for the consideration of the European Regional Group during the preparation for the next (25th) FAO Regional Conference for Europe.
61. The Conference further agreed that the Executive Committee should consider how the European Regional Conference could best meet the needs of the membership and increase its relevance to the changing situation in the European Region. The Regional Conference for Europe should continue to facilitate debate on themes of relevance to the entire European Region and attract a high level of participation.
62. The Conference welcomed the organization of two side-events organized by the host government related to two technical items on its agenda13.
63. The Conference also welcomed the organization of information sessions on the FAO field programme14.
64. With some amendments, the text of the draft report was approved by the Conference.
65. On behalf of the Director-General, the Regional Representative for Europe thanked the host government for the welcome extended to all delegations. In particular, she expressed deep appreciation to the staff of the Ecole National Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier (ENSAM) for the excellent facilities provided which contributed to the smooth and efficient conduct of the Conference.
66. On behalf of the Government of France, the Chairperson paid tribute to the active participation of all delegations and especially of the ten representing the countries newly admitted to EU membership. He also made reference to the vigorous efforts undertaken
by the other countries of the South eastern sub-region which would permit them to adhere to EU membership in the future years. The Chairperson wished to place on record his appreciation of the generous contribution extended by the ENSAM, INRA, CIRAD and Agropolis.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
LISTE DES PARTICIPANTS
LISTA DE PARTICIPANTES
Chairperson France
Président
Presidente
Vice-Chairpersons Ireland
Vice-Président(e)s Turkey
Vicepresidentes Ukraine
Rapporteur Spain
Independent Chairman of the FAO Council Aziz MEKOUAR (Morocco)
Président indépendant du Conseil de la FAO
Presidente Independiente del Consejo de la FAO
MEMBER NATIONS
ÉTATS MEMBRES
ESTADOS MIEMBROS
ALBANIA - ALBANIE
Delegate
Agron DUKA
Minister for Agriculture and Food
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
“Desmoret e Kombit” Boulevard No. 2
Tirana
Tel: +355 4 227924
Fax: +355 4 227294
Email: [email protected]
Alternate
Sali METANI
Director of International Relations
and European Integration Department
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
“Desmoret e Kombit” Boulevard No. 2
Tirana
Email: [email protected]
ARMENIA - ARMÉNIE
Delegate
Zohrab V. MALEK
Ambassador to FAO
Permanent Representative of
the Republic of Armenia to FAO
Via Camillo Sabatini 102
00144 Rome
Tel: +39 065201924
Fax: +39 065201924
Email: [email protected]
AUSTRIA - AUTRICHE
Delegate
Mrs Hedwig WŐGERBAUER
Director
Head of FAO and OECD Division
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry, Environment and Water
Management
Stubenring 1
A-1010 Vienna
Tel: +43 1 71100 Kl. 2812
Fax: +43 1 71100 2959
Email: hedwig.woegerbauer@
lebensministerium.gv.at
Alternate
Mrs Natalie FEISTRITZER
Permanent Representative of Austria
to FAO
Via Pergolesi 3
00198 Rome
Tel: +39 06844014227
Fax: +39 068543286
Email: [email protected]
AZERBAIJAN - AZERBAÏDJAN
AZERBAIYÁN
Delegate
Irshad ALIYEV
Minister for Agriculture
Ministry of Agriculture
U. Hajibeyov St. 40
Government House
370016 Baku
Tel: +994 12 933745
Fax: +994 12 930884
Email: [email protected]
Alternate
Ramiz SAFAROV
Head of the Veterinary Department
Minister for Agriculture
Ministry of Agriculture
U. Hajibeyov St. 40
Government House
370016 Baku
Tel: +994 12 626632
Fax: +994 12 626606
Email: [email protected]
BELGIUM - BELGIQUE -
BÉLGICA
Délégué
Christian MONNOYER
Ambassadeur
Représentant permanent de la
Belgique auprès de la FAO
8 Via Omero
I-00197 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 3203903
Fax: +39 06 3203992
Email: [email protected]
Suppléants
René POISMANS
Ingénieur
Coordination agricole
Direction générale de l’Agriculture
de la Région Wallonne
Boulevard S. Bolivar 30
B-1000 Bruxelles
Fax: +32 2 2083568
Email: [email protected]
Mme Eugenia BASTARRECHE
174 rue Joseph II
B-1000 Bruxelles
Tel : +32 2 2346810
Fax: +32 2 2311410
Email: [email protected]
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA -
BOSNIE-HERZÉGOVINE -
BOSNIA Y HERZEGOVINA
Delegate
BULGARIA - BULGARIE
Delegate
Ilia KRASTELNIKOV
Ambassador
Permanent Representative to FAO
Via Pietro Paolo Rubens 21
00197 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 3224640
Fax: +39 06 3226122
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Ms Rossitsa GEORGOVA
Head of Bilateral Relations and
International Organizations
Division
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
55 Hristo Botev Blvd
Sofia 1040
Tel: +359 2 981 0735
Fax: +359 2 981 0735
Email: [email protected]
Philip GARKOV
State Expert
Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Organizations Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2 Alexander Zhendov Str
Sofia 1113
Fax: +359 2 971 2434
Email: [email protected]
CROATIA - CROATIE - CROACIA
Delegate
Petar ČOBANKOVIĆ
Minister for Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Management
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Management
Ulica grada Vukovara 78
HR 10000 Zagreb
Tel: +385 1 6106111
Fax: +385 1 6109200
Alternates
Miroslav BOŽIĆ
Assistant Minister
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Management
Ulica grada Vukovara 78
HR 10000 Zagreb
Tel: +385 1 6106111
Fax: +385 1 6109206
Email: [email protected]
Drago KRALJEVIĆ
Ambassador
Embassy of the Republic of Croatia
Via L. Bodio 74-76
00191 Rome
Tel: +39 06 36307650
Fax: +39 06 36303405
Ms Lidija MRKOCI
Head of the International Relations
Unit
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Management
Ulica grada Vukovara 78
HR 10000 Zagreb
Tel: +385 1 6106111
Fax: +385 1 6109206
Email: [email protected]
Ms Marina DEUR
Senior Counsellor
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Management
Ulica grada Vukovara 78
HR 10000 Zagreb
Tel: +385 1 6106111
Fax: +385 1 6109206
Email: [email protected]
Mrs Jasminka KINNARD FAJDETIĆ
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Management
Ulica grada Vukovara 78
HR 10000 Zagreb
Tel: +385 1 6106111
Fax: +385 1 6109200
CYPRUS - CHYPRE - CHIPRE
Delegate
George POULIDES
Ambassador to FAO
Permanent Representation of the
Republic of Cyprus to FAO
Piazza Farnese 44
00186 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 6865758
Fax: +39 06 68803756
Email: [email protected]
Alternate
Haris ZANNETIS
Senior Officer
Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment
Loukis Akritas Avenue
1411 Nicosia
Fax: +357 22774234
Email: [email protected]
CZECH REPUBLIC -
RÉPUBLIQUE TCHÈQUE -
REPÚBLICA CHECA
Delegate
Pavel ŠKODA
Permanent Representative of the
Czech Republic to FAO
Embassy of the Czech Republic
Via dei Gracchi 322
00192 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 063609571
Fax: +39 063244459
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Miroslav BELICA
Deputy Director for Development
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Czech Republic
Loretanske nam. 5
Prague 1
Fax: +420 224 182491
Email: [email protected]
Josef HOLEJSOVSKY
General Director
Chief Veterinary Officer
State Veterinary Administration
Szezska 7
Prague 2
Email: [email protected]
Jiří MUCHKA
Secretary of the National FAO
Committee
Ministry of Agriculture
Tesnov 17
117 05 Prague 1
Tel: +420 221812452
Fax: +420 224 810423
Email: [email protected]
František SLÁDEK
Director-General
Section of Food Production
Ministry of Agriculture
Těšnov 17
117 05 Prague 1
Fax: +420 221812985
Email: [email protected]
DENMARK - DANEMARK -
DINAMARCA
Delegate
Søren SKAFTE
Minister
Deputy Permanent Representative
to FAO
Royal Danish Embassy
Via dei Monti Parioli 50
00197 Rome
Tel: +39 0697748329
Fax: +39 0697748399
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Ms Pia FOGSGAARD
Higher Executive Officer
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
Holbergsgade 2
DK 1057 Copenhagen K
Tel: +45 33924292
Fax: +45 33123670
Email: [email protected]
ESTONIA - ESTONIE
Delegate
Hendrik KUUSK
Head
Department of Veterinary and
Food
Ministry of Agriculture
Lai 39/41
15056 Tallinn
Tel : +372 6256142
Fax: +372 6256210
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Ruve SCHANK
Head
Department of Public and
Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Agriculture
Lai 39/41
15056 Tallinn
Fax: +342 631 3628
Email: [email protected]
Ivari NIINEMÄE
Head of Bureau of Research,
Education and Extension
Ministry of Agriculture
Lai 39/41
15056 Tallinn
Tel: +3726256186
Fax: +3726256245
Email: [email protected]
Illar LEMETTI
Director of the Agricultural
Research Centre
Ministry of Agriculture
Lai 39/41
15056 Tallinn
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
(MEMBER ORGANIZATION) -
COMMUNAUTÉ EUROPÉENNE
(ORGANISATION MEMBRE) -
COMUNIDAD EUROPEA
(ORGANIZACIÓN MIEMBRO)
Delegate
Luis RITTO
Permanent Representative
Delegation of the European Commission
to FAO and to the UN Organizations
Via IV Novembre 149
00187 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 6782672
Fax: +39 06 679 78 30
Email: [email protected]
Alternate
Francisco-Javier ALCAZAR SIRVENT
Principal Administrator
European Commission
Rue de la Loi 130
1049 Bruxelles
Fax: +32 2 2969636
Email: [email protected]
FINLAND - FINLANDE - FINLANDIA
Delegate
Veli-Pekka TALVELA
Director-General
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
P.O. Box 30 00023 Government
Fax: +358 9 160 52266
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Ms Anna SANTALA
Senior Officer
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
P.O. Box 00023 Government
Fax: +358 9 160 52266
Email: [email protected]
Ms Kaisa KARTTUNEN
Counsellor (Agriculture)
Deputy Permanent Representative
of Finland
Embassy of the Republic of Finland
Via Lisbona 3
00198 Rome
Tel: +39 06852231
Fax: +39 068540362
Email: [email protected]
FRANCE - FRANCIA
Délégué
Hervé GAYMARD
Ministre de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et
des affaires rurales
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et
des affaires rurales
Service des relations internationales
3 rue Barbet de Jouy
75007 Paris
Tel: +33 1 49554620
Fax: +33 1 49555942
Suppléants
Alain PIERRET
Président du Comité interministériel
de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation
(CIAA)
Carré Austerlitz 2
Boulevard Diderot
75572-Paris
Tel: +33 1 44871600
Fax: +33 1 44871604
Email: [email protected]
Charles MILLON
Ambassadeur auprès de l’OAA
Représentation permanente de la
France auprès de l’OAA
Corso del Rinascimento 52
00186 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 68405240
Fax: +39 06 6892692
Email:
[email protected]
Patrick PRUVOT
SG du Comité interministériel
de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation
(CIAA)
Carré Austerlitz 2
Boulevard Diderot
75012 Paris
Tel: +33 1 44871600
Fax: +33 1 44871604
Email: [email protected]
Michel THIBIER
Directeur général de
l’Enseignement et de la Recherche
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et
des affaires rurales
Service des relations internationales
3 rue Barbet de Jouy
75007 Paris
Mme Marion GUILLOU
Directrice Générale de l’INRA
Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique (INRA)
147 rue de l’Université
75338 Paris Cédex 07
Tel: +33 142759121
Fax: +33 142759377
Benoît LESAFFRE
Directeur général
Centre de Coopération Internationale en
Recherche Agronomique pour le
Développement (CIRAD)
42 rue Scheffer
75116 Paris
Fax: +33 1 53702034
Email: [email protected]
Philippe DELACROIX
Sous-directeur économique
Direction des Nations Unies et des
organisations internationales
37 quai d’Orsay
75007 Paris
Fax: +33 1 43175558
Email:
[email protected]
Mme Claire GAUDOT
Conseiller scientifique
Représentation permanente de la
France auprès de l’OAA
Corso del Rinascimento 52
00186 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 68405222
Fax: +39 06 6892692
Email:
conseiller-scientifique.rpfrancefao@tuttopmi.it
Jean-Paul PELLISSIER
Chef du Bureau Afrique Méditerranée et
Organisations Internationales
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et
des affaires rurales
Service des relations internationales
3 rue Barbet de Jouy
75007 Paris
Tel: +33 1 49554866
Email:
[email protected]
Daniel ROCCHI
Chargé de mission
Direction générale de l’Enseignement
et de la Recherche
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et
des affaires rurales
Service des relations internationales
1 avenue de Courendal
75007 Paris
Email:
[email protected]
Robert JANELLE
Chargé de mission
Direction de la Coopération technique
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
37 quai d’Orsay
75007 Paris
Ludovic LARBODIERE
Chargé de mission OAA
3 rue Barbet de Jouy
75349 Paris 07 SP
Tel: +33 1 49554620
Fax: +33 1 49555942
Email:
[email protected]
Sven-Erik SJÖDEN
Rédacteur
Direction des Nations Unies et Organisations Internationales
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
37 quai d’Orsay
75007 Paris
Fax: +33 1 43175558
Email:
[email protected]
Mlle Emilie VANDECANDELAERE
Chargé d’étude nutrition
Direction générale de l’alimentation
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et
des affaires rurales
251 rue de Vaugirard
75732 Paris Cédex 15
Tel: +33 1 49555863
Fax: +33 1 49555948
Email:
[email protected]
Mme Marie-Laure VACHÉ
Chargée de communication
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et
des affaires rurales
78 rue de Varenne
75700 Paris
Tel: +33 1 49555697
Fax: +33 1 49554590
Email:
[email protected]
Alain DEREVIER
Chargé de Mission
Recherche pour le Développement Durable
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
244 Boulevard Saint-Germain
75 030 Paris SP 07
Fax: +33 1 43 178925
Email:
[email protected]
Denis DESPRÉAUX
Chargé de Mission
Recherche pour le Développement Durable
MENESR
110 rue de Grenelle
75357 Paris 07 SP
Fax: +33 1 55557067
Email:
[email protected]
Philippe LEMERCIER
Directeur Europe et International
IFREMER
155 rue JJ Rousseau
92138 Issy les Moulineaux Cedex
Tel: +33 1 46482180
Fax: +33 1 46482188
Email: [email protected]
Philippe FERLIN
Directeur des Relations Internationales
Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique (INRA)
147 rue de l’Université
75338 Paris Cédex 07
Tel: +33 142759121
Fax: +33 142759377
Email: [email protected]
Harry PALMIER
Chargé de mission pour la cooperation
multilaterale
Institut de recherche pour le
Développement (IRD)
213 rue Lafayette
75480 Paris Cédex 10
Tel: +33 1 48037579
Fax: +33 140362385
Email: [email protected]
Christian HOSTE
Délégué aux institutions internationales
à la Méditerranée et a l’Europe
bilatérale du CIRAD
42 rue Scheffer
75116 Paris
Bernard HUBERT
Directeur adjoint
Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique (INRA)
147 rue de l’Université
75338 Paris Cédex 07
Michel RIBARD
Chargé de mission Méditerranée
Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique (INRA)
2 Place Pierre Viala
34060 Montpellier Cedex 1
Tel : +33 4 99613101
Fax : +33 4 67543201
Email : [email protected]
Mme Estelle BIENABE
Chercheur
CIRAD
CIRAD TERA TA 60/15
73 av. J.-F. Breton
34398 Montpellier Cédex 5
Tel: +33 4 67684457
Fax: +33 4 67614415
Email: [email protected]
Eric CARDINALE
Laboratoire de Bactériologie et
de Pathologie aviaire
CIRAD-EMVT
ISRA-LNERV
BP 2057
Dakar-Hann
Sénégal
Tel: +221 8323658
Fax: +221 8211879
Email: [email protected]
Bernard DUPUY
Responsable communication
TA 173/05 Avenue Agropolis
34398 Montpellier
Fax: +33 4 67617537
Email: [email protected]
Hubert OMONT
Chargé de mission
CIRAD
TA 80/PS3
Boulevard de la Lironde
34398 Montpellier Cédex 5
Tel: +33 4 67615594
Fax: +33 4 67615659
Email: [email protected]
Jean Pascal PICHOT
CIRAD-Tera TA 60/15
73 rue JF BRETON
34398 Montpellier Cédex 05
Fax: +33 4 67614415
Email: [email protected]
Max REYNES
Chargé de mission
CIRAD-FLHOR
TA 50/PS4
Bd de la Lironde
34398 Montpellier Cédex 5
Fax: +33 4 67614433
Email: [email protected]
Fanny CONESA
Ingénieur Qualité, Sécurité,
Environnement
Direction du Développement
Rural Durable, de l’Agriculture,
de la Forêt et de la Pêche
Hôtel de Région
201 Avenue de la Pompignane
34064 Montpellier Cédex 2
Tel : +33 4 67229729
Fax : +33 4 67228191
Email:
[email protected]
Mlle Marion BLANES-BLANC
Assistante parlementaire du
Senateur Marcel Vidal
Permanence parlementaire
330 Avenue Michel Teule
Bâtiment C
34000 Montpellier
Email: [email protected]
Mlle Catherine RIVOAL
Chef pôle éditions
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et
des affaires rurales
78 rue de Varenne
75349 Paris 07 SP
Tel : +33 1 49555179
Fax: +33 1 49554847
Email:
[email protected]
Jean Pierre GAILLARD
Directeur innovation et communication
CIRAD
TA 173/04
Avenue Agropolis
34398 Montpellier
Tel : +33 4 67615859
Email: [email protected]
Emmanuel THEVENIN
Chef du projet
Atelier technique des espaces naturels
2 place viala
34 Montpellier
Tel : +33 4 67043030
Fax: +33 4 67588895
Email: [email protected]
Mme Edith VIDAL
Chef du service des strategies agricoles et Industrielles
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et des affaires rurale
DPEI
3 rue Barbet de Jouy
75017 Paris
Tel : +33 1 49555812
Fax: +33 1 49555822
Email: [email protected]
Sylvain LAMBERT
Conseiller diplomatique
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et des affaires rurale
Ministère de l’Agriculture
78 rue de Varenne
75007 Paris
Tel: 0680666056
Christophe BOYER
Président du Bureau
AEFJN
20 rue du Printemps
75017 Paris
Tel: 0608817373
Email: [email protected]
Jean-Marie GUILLOUX
Directeur
Programme mission Agrobiosciences
ENFA/INRA
BP 327
Castanet Tolosan
31520 France
Tel: 0680934000
Email: [email protected]
Michel BAREL
CIRAD
Programme Cacao
Avenue Agropolis
34398 Montpellier
Cédex 5
Email: [email protected]
Mme Sandrine SEBAN
Chargé de mission
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation, de la pêche et des affaires rurale
3 rue Barbet de Jouy
75007 Paris
Tel : +33 1 49558360
Email:
[email protected]
Mme Marty BURGAUD
CIRAD
DG-DRLR
Avenue Agropolis
34398 Montpellier
Cédex 5
Email: [email protected]
Mme Florence VIGIER
Chargée de communication
CIRAD
Avenue Agropolis
34398 Montpellier
GEORGIA - GÉORGIE
Delegate
Mamuka MESKHI
Assistant to the Minister
Ministry of Agriculture
41 Kostava Street
Tbilisi
Tel: +99577 403022
Fax: +99532 333112
Email: [email protected]
GERMANY - ALLEMAGNE -
ALEMANIA
Delegate
Martin NISSEN
Head of Division
Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture
Wilhelmstr. 54
D-10117 Berlin
Tel: +49 302006-3191
Fax: +49 228 5293351
Email: [email protected]
Alternate
Ms Renate VOGELSANG
Assistant Head of Division
Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture
Wilhelmstr. 54
10119 Berlin
Tel: +49 30 2006 3515
Fax: +49 30 2006-3276
Email:
[email protected]
GREECE - GRÈCE - GRECIA
Delegate
Pavlos PEZAROS
Director of the Department for
Agricultural Policy
Ministry of Rural Development
and Food
5 Acharnon Street
10176 Athens
Tel: +302 10 2125593
Fax: +302 10 5249097
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Emmanuel MANOUSSAKIS
Alternate Permanent Representative to FAO
Embassy of Greece
Viale G. Rossini 4
00198 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 8537551
Fax: +39 06 85375503
Email: [email protected]
Constantine VIZIOTIS
Economist
Expert on FAO matters
Ministry of Rural Development
and Food
5 Acharnon Street
10176 Athens
Fax: +302 10 5249097
Email: [email protected]
Mrs Lydia BOUZA
Adviser to the Secretary General
Ministry of Rural Development
and Food
5 Acharnon Street
10176 Athens
Fax: +302 10 5249097
HUNGARY - HONGRIE - HUNGRÍA
Delegate
Fülöp BENEDEK
Secretary of State
Chairman of the Hungarian
National FAO Committee
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development
1860 Budapest 55, Pf. 1
Fax: +361 301 4662
Alternates
Ms Mariann KOVÁCS
Head of Department of
International Relations
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development
1860 Budapest, 55. Pf. 1
Tel: +361 3022000
Fax: +361 301 4662
Ms. Katalin BAKK
Secretary-General of the
Hungarian National FAO
Committee
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development
1860 Budapest, 55. Pf. 1
Fax: +361 301 4662
Email: [email protected]
Ms. Enikö ZOBOR
Counsellor
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development
1860 Budapest, 55. Pf. 1
Andràs CZETI
Head of Department
Office of the Secretary of
State
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development
1860 Budapest, 55. Pf. 1
Tel: +36 30 6062997
Fax: +361 301 4662
Email: [email protected]
Zoltán KÁLMÁN
Permanent Representative to FAO
Permanent Representation of
Hungary to FAO
Via Luigi Lilio 59 C/10
00142 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 5190116
Fax: +39 06 5032121
Email: [email protected]
Norbert SOMOGYI
Attaché agricole
Ambassade de Hongrie
140 avenue Victor Hugo
75116 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 53706712
Fax: +33 1 47273563
Email: [email protected]
ICELAND - ISLANDE - ISLANDIA
Delegate
IRELAND – IRLANDE – IRLANDA
Delegate
Noel TREACY
Minister of State
Department of Agriculture and Food
Agriculture House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Fax: +353 1 6763947
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Tony DEVLIN
Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland to FAO
Embassy of Ireland
Piazza di Campitelli 3
00196 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 6979121
Fax: +39 06 69791231
Email: [email protected]
Séamus O’FLAHERTY
First Secretary for Agricultural Affairs
Embassy of Ireland
12 Avenue Foch
75116 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 44175116
Fax: +33 1 44176760
Ms Sharon MURPHY
Deputy Head of Division
Economics and Planning Division
Department of Agriculture and Food
Agriculture House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Fax: +353 16072235
Email:
[email protected]
Ms Cecelia RONAYNE
Executive Officer
Department of Agriculture and Food
Agriculture House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Fax: +353 16072235
Email:
[email protected]
Kevin SMYTH
Chief Economist
Department of Agriculture and Food
Agriculture House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Fax: +353 1 6072235
Email: [email protected]
Aidan DUANE
Private Secretary to the
Minister of State
Agriculture House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Fax: +393 1 6763947
Email: [email protected]
Ms Cornelia KRETSCHMER
Fonctionnaire
Secrétariat général du Conseil de l’UE
Rue de la Loi 175 (40.50 DH 35)
B 1048 Bruxelles
Belgium
Fax : +32 22857227
Email :
[email protected]
Jean-Pierre SABSOUB
Fonctionnaire
Secrétariat général du Conseil de l’UE
Rue de la Loi 175 (40.50 DH 35)
B 1048 Bruxelles
Belgium
Fax: +32 22857227
Email:
[email protected]
ISRAEL - ISRAËL
Delegate
Denis-Paul MORDEHAY-RODGOLD
Alternate Permanent Representative
of Israel to FAO
Embassy of the State of Israel
Via Michele Mercati 14
00197 Rome
Tel: +39 06 36198500
Fax: +39 0636198555
Email: [email protected]
Alternate
Rami KEREN
Director
International Relations Department
Agriculture Research Organization
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development
8, Arania Street
HakiryaTel Aviv 61070
ITALY - ITALIE - ITALIA
Délégué
Romualdo BETTINI
Rappresentante Permanente d’Italia
presso l’ONU
Piazza Margana 19
00186 Rome
Tel: 0039 06 6977961
Fax: 0039 06 6796352
Email: [email protected]
Suppléants
Paolo DUCCI
Direzione Generale per la
Cooperazione Economica e
Finanziaria Multilaterale
Responsabile del Coordinamento
FAO/IFAD/PAM
Ministero degli Affari Esteri
Via P. Tacchini 22
00197 Rome
Fax: +39 0636913660
Email: [email protected]
Sig.ra Marcella CASELLA
Dirigente
Dipartimento della Qualità dei
Prodotti Agroalimentari e dei
Servizi
Direzione Generale per la
Qualità dei Prodotti Agroalimentari
e la Tutela del Consumatore
Ministero delle Politiche Agricole
e Forestali
Via XX Settembre 20
00187 Rome
Fax: +39 0646656057
Email: [email protected]
Marco ROMITI
Primo Segretario
Rappresentanza Diplomatica Permanente
d’Italia presso l’ONU
Piazza Margana 19
00186 Rome
Tel: 0039 06 6977961
Fax: 0039 06 6796352
Email: [email protected]
Sig.ra Piera MARIN
Coordinatore Amministrativo
Ufficio Rapporti Internazionali
Ministero delle Politiche Agricole
e Forestali
Via XX Settembre 20
00187 Rome
Tel: +39 0646653086
Fax: +39 0646653086
Email: [email protected]
Sig.ra Mariella SANTEVECCHI
Direttore Tecnico
Direzione Generale per le
Politiche Strutturali e lo
Sviluppo Rurale
Ministero delle Politiche Agricole
e Forestali
Via XX Settembre 20
00187 Rome
Fax: +39 064881707
Email:
[email protected]
Sig.ra Lucia GUIDARELLI
Dirigente Medico di II Livello
Direzione Generale della
Sanità Veterinaria e
degli Alimenti
Ministero della Salute
Piazza Marconi 25
00144 Rome
Tel : +39 06 59946828
Fax: +39 06 59946119
Email: [email protected]
Paolo AMMASSARI
Coordinatore Amministrativo
Direzione Generale per le Politiche
Strutturali e lo Sviluppo Rurale
Ministero delle Politiche Agricole
e Forestali
Via XX Settembre 20
00187 Rome
Fax: +39 064881707
Email: [email protected]
Sig.ra Patrizia ORTOLANI
Consigliere Ministeriale per la
FAO
Ministero delle Politiche Agricole
e Forestali
Via XX Settembre 20
00187 Rome
LATVIA - LETTONIE - LETONIA
Delegate
Mrs Laimdota STRAUJUMA
State Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture
2 Republikas Square
Riga LV-1981
Tel: +371 7027139
Fax: +371 7027512
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Mrs Dace LUCAUA
Parliamentary Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture
2 Republikas Square
Riga LV-1981
Tel: +371 7027296
Fax: +371 7830272
Mrs Dzidra UPITE
Head of International Relations
Division
Ministry of Agriculture
2 Republikas Square
Riga LV-1981
Tel: +371 7027296
Fax: +371 7830272
Email: [email protected]
LITHUANIA - LITUANIE - LITUANIA
Delegate
Alfredas PUODŽIŪNAS
Head
Lithuania Food and Veterinary Audit
Service
Kalvariju 153
Vilnius Post Code 08221
Fax: +370 5 2300596
Email: [email protected]
Alternate
Arturas BAGOTYRIUS
Deputy Director
State Food and Veterinary Service
Siesiku 19
Vilnius 07170
Fax: +370 5 2404362
Email: [email protected]
LUXEMBOURG - LUXEMBURGO
Délégué
MALTA - MALTE
Delegate
MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF-
MOLDOVA, RÉPUBLIQUE DE -
MOLDOVA, REPÚBLICA DE
MOLDOVA
Delegate
Viorel GUTU
Head of Investment Projects and
Technical Assistance Department
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry
162 Stefan cel Mare Blvd
MD 2012 Chisinau
Tel: +373 22 210631
Fax: +373 22 210631
Email: [email protected]
Alternate
Viorel GHERCIU
Local Team Leader
Support to Rural Investment and Services Project
98, 31 August Street
Office 411
Chisinau MD-2004
Tel : +373 22 237801
Fax: +373 22 237802
Email:
[email protected]
MONACO
Délégué
THE NETHERLANDS - PAYS-BAS –
PAÍSES BAJOS
Delegate
Ewald WERMUTH
Ambassador
Permanent Representative of the
Netherlands to FAO
Via delle Terme Deciane 6
00153 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 065740306
Fax: +39 065744927
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Niek SCHELLING
Senior Officer
International Food Quality Affairs
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and
Food Quality
Department of Food and Veterinary
Affairs
P.O. Box 20401
2500 EK The Hague
Tel: +31 703784426
Fax: +31 703786141
Email: [email protected]
Ms Daniëlle DE WAAL
Policy Coordinator
Department of International Affairs
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and
Food Quality
Bezuidenhoutseweg 73
P.O. Box 20401
2500 EK The Hague
Tel: +31 703784063
Fax: +31 703786105
Email: [email protected]
NORWAY - NORVÈGE - NORUEGA
Delegate
Leif Helge KONGSHAUG
State Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture
P.O. Box 8007 Dep,
0030 Oslo
Fax: +47 22 249559
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
André MONSRUD
Adviser
Ministry of Agriculture
P.O. Box 8007 Dep,
0030 Oslo
Fax: +47 22 249559
Email: [email protected]
Ms Astrid ZACHARIASSEN
Higher Executive Officer
Ministry of Agriculture
P.O. Box 8007 Dep,
0030 Oslo
Fax: +47 22 249559
Email: [email protected]
POLAND - POLOGNE - POLONIA
Delegate
Romuald SZUNIEWICZ
Minister Plenipotentiary
Permanent Representative of the
Republic of Poland to FAO
Via Pietro Paolo Rubens 20
00197 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 36204200
Fax: +39 06 3217895
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Ms Malgorzata PIOTROWSKA
Deputy-Director
Department of Foreign Relations
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development
ul. Wspólna 30
00-930 Warsaw
Email: [email protected]
Ryszard KOZLOWSKI
General Director
Institute of Natural Fibres
Ul. Wojska Polskiego 71b
60-630 Poznan
Fax: +48 61 8417830
Email: [email protected]
PORTUGAL
Delegate
Fernando António BIANCHI DE AGUIAR
Secretary of State
Rural Development
Ministry of Agriculture, Rural |
Alternate
João ALBERGARIA
Assistant to Secretary of State
Rural Development
Ministry of Agriculture, Rural
Development and Fisheries
Praça do Comércio
1149-010 Lisbon
Tel: +351 21 323470819
Email: [email protected]
ROMANIA - ROUMANIE - RUMANIA
Delegate
Mrs Gabriela DUMITRIU
Deputy Permanent Representative
to FAO
Embassy of Romania
Via Nicolò Tartaglia 36
00197 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 8073082
Fax: +39 06 8084995
Email: [email protected]
SAN MARINO - SAINT-MARIN
Delegate
Mrs Daniela ROTONDARO
Permanent Representative of the
Republic of San Marino to FAO
Embassy of the Republic of San Marino
Via Eleonora Duse 35
00197 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 068072511
Fax: +39 068070072
Email: [email protected]
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
SERBIE ET MONTÉNÉGRO
SERBIA Y MONTENEGRO
Delegate
Goran ŽIVKOV
Assistant Minister for Economics,
Statistics and Policy
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Water Management of the
Republic of Serbia
22-26 Nemanjina Street
11000 Belgrade
Tel: +38111 3065 038
Fax: +38111 3616 272
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Mrs Ljiljana SIMOVIĆ
Counsellor for International Relations
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Water Management of the
Republic of Montenegro
Trg Vektre
Podgorica
Fax: +381 81482364
Email: [email protected]
Ms Tatjana PAPIĆ
Counsellor
Ministry of International Economic
Relations of Serbia and Montenegro
State Union Serbia and Montenegro
Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 2
New Belgrade
Fax: +381 11 3112761
Email: [email protected]
SLOVAKIA – SLOVAQUIE
ESLOVAQUIA
Delegate
Marián RADOŠOVSKÝ
State Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture
Dobrovičova 12
812 66 Bratislava
Tel: +421 2 59266288
Fax: +421 2 59266294
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Milan PAKŠI
Permanent Representative of
the Slovak Republic to FAO
Embassy of the Slovak Republic
Via dei Colli della Farnesina 144
00194 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 36715206
Fax: +39 06 36715266
Email: [email protected]
Mrs Eva KOLESÁROVÁ
Director
Department of Foreign Relations
Ministry of Agriculture
Dobrovičova 12
812 66 Bratislava
Tel: +421 2 59266288
Fax: +421 2 59266294
Email: [email protected]
Mrs Barbara HELLEBRANDTOVÁ
National Secretary for Cooperation
of the Slovak Republic with FAO
Department of Foreign Relations of
the Ministry of Agriculture
Dobrovičova 12
812 66 Bratislava
Tel: +421 2 59266288
Fax: +421 2 59266294
Email: [email protected]
Peter ŠIMKO
Deputy Director
Deputy National Secretary for WFS
Food Research Institute
Priemyselná 4
824 75 Bratislava
Fax: +421 2 55571417
Email: [email protected]
SLOVENIA - SLOVÉNIE - ESLOVENIA
Delegate
Ms Irena MEGUSAR
Counsellor to the Government
Dunajska 56, 58
Sl-1000 Ljubljana
Tel: +386 1 4789111
Fax: +386 1 4789021
Email: [email protected]
Alternate
Mrs Bojana HOCEVAR
Minister Plenipotentiary to FAO
Permanent Representation of the
Republic of Slovenia to FAO
Via Francesco Pacelli, 14/b
00193 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 39366972
Fax: +39 06 39376906
Email: [email protected]
SPAIN - ESPAGNE - ESPAÑA
Delegado
Ernesto RÍOS LÓPEZ
Representante Permanente Adjunto
Representación Permanente de España
ante la FAO
Largo dei Lombardi 21
00186 Rome
Tel: +39 06 6878762
Fax: +39 06 6873076
Email: [email protected]
Suplentes
Francisco MARTÍNEZ ARROYO
Representante Permanente Alterno
Representación Permanente de España
ante la FAO
Largo dei Lombardi 21
00186 Rome
Italia
Tel: +39 06 6878762
Fax: +39 06 6873076
Email: [email protected]
Carlos Luis DE CUENCA Y ESTEBAN
Subdirector General
Planificación Alimentaria
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca
y Alimentación
Paseo de la Infanta Isabel 1
28071 Madrid
Tel: +91 3475008
Fax: +91 3475728
Email: [email protected]
Sra Maria Cruz VEGA ÁLVAREZ
Subdirectora General de Sistemas
de Calidad Diferenciada
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca
y Alimentación
Paseo de la Infanta Isabel 1
28071 Madrid
Tel: +91 3475394
Fax: +91 3475410
Email: [email protected]
SWEDEN - SUÈDE - SUECIA
Delegate
Christer WRETBORN
Deputy Director-General
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and
Consumer Affairs
Fredsgatan 8
SE-10333 Stockholm
Tel : +46 8 4051000
Fax: +46 8 206496
Email:
[email protected]
Alternates
Anders LÖNNBLAD
Deputy Director-General
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and
Consumer Affairs
Fredsgatan 8
SE-10333 Stockholm
Tel : +46 8 4051000
Fax: +46 8 206496
Email:
[email protected]
Miss Anna CARLSSON
Senior Administrative Officer
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and
Consumer Affairs
Fredsgatan 8
SE-10333 Stockholm
Tel : +46 8 4051000
Fax: +46 8 206496
Email:
[email protected]
Ms Helena SIVARD ASKVIK
Administrative Officer
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and
Consumer Affairs
Fredsgatan 8
SE-10333 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 4051000
Fax: +46 8 206496
Email:
[email protected]
Michael ODEVALL
Permanent Representative of Sweden
to FAO
Embassy of Sweden
C.P. 7201
00100 Roma-Nomentano
Italy
Tel: +39 06 441941
Fax: +39 06 44194760
Email:
[email protected]
SWITZERLAND - SUISSE - SUIZA
Délégué
Anton KOHLER
Chef du secrétariat suisse de la FAO
Office fédéral de l’agriculture
Mattehnhofstrasse 5
CH-3003 Berne
Tel : +41 31 3222562
Email : [email protected]
THE FORMER YUGOSLAV
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA - L'EX RÉPUBLIQUE YOUGOSLAVE DE MACÉDOINE –
LA EX REPÚBLICA
YUGOSLAVA DE MACEDONIA
Delegate
Besir JAŠARI
Deputy Minister
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Economy
Ul. Leninova 2
1000 Skopje
Tel: +389 23 113307
Fax: +389 23 230429
Alternates
Mrs Lidija ČADIKOVSKA
Director of IFAD Project in
FYR of Macedonia
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Economy
Ul. Leninova 2
1000 Skopje
Mrs Irena BOGOEVSKA
Chief of the Cabinet of the
Minister for Agriculture
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Economy
Ul. Leninova 2
1000 Skopje
Tel: +389 23 113302
Fax: +389 23 230429
Email: [email protected]
TURKEY - TURQUIE - TURQUÍA
Delegate
Mehmet CAGIL
Undersecretary
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Affairs
Milli Müdafa Caddesi No. 20
Kizilay
Ankara
Fax: +90 3124179247
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Nihat PAKDIL
Director General of Protection
and Control
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Affairs
Akay Cad. No. 5
Bakanliklar
Ankara
Fax: +90 3124186318
Email: [email protected]
Gülgönül BÜYÜKDORA
Director of Section
Department of Foreign Relations and
EU Coordination
Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Affairs
Adem Yavuz Sokak No. 10
Kizilay Ankara
Fax: +90 3124251209
Email: [email protected]
UKRAINE – UCRANIA
Delegate
Victor SLAUTA
Minister for Agrarian Policy
Ministry of Agriculture
Khreshchatyk Str. 24
Kiev 01001
Fax: +380 442262772
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Dmytro MELNYCHUK
Rector and Professor
National Agricultural University
Heroyiv Oborony Str. 15
Kiev 03041
Tel: +380 442678244
Fax: +380 442577155
Email: [email protected]
Stanislav YEZHOV
Second Secretary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yuri PYVOVAROV
Premier Conseiller
Embassy of Ukraine in France
Ms Iryna KOTELENETS
Vice-rector of International
Cooperation
Sumy National Agrarian University
160 Kirova Str.,
Sumy
Fax: +38 542 213472
Email: [email protected]
Mrs Alla KRAVCHENKO
Assistant to Rector for International
Affairs
National Agricultural University of Ukraine
Heroyiv Oborony Str. 15
Kiev 03041
Fax: +38 44 2577155
Email: [email protected]
UNITED KINGDOM -
ROYAUME UNI - REINO UNIDO
Delegate
OBSERVERS FROM MEMBER NATIONS NOT IN THE REGION
OBSERVATEURS D'ÉTATS MEMBRES N'APPARTENANT PAS À LA REGION
OBSERVADORES DE LOS ESTADOS MIEMBROS QUE NO PERTENECEN
A LA REGION
ÉTATS UNIS D’AMÉRIQUE –
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Delegate
Timothy WIDMER
Acting Director
European Biological Control Laboratory
Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Montpellier
France
OBSERVATEURS D'ÉTATS MEMBRES DES NATIONS UNIES
OBSERVADORES DE LOS ESTADOS MIEMBROS
DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS
Delegate
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
FÉDÉRATION DE RUSSIE
FEDERACIÓN DE RUSIA
Delegate
Yury SCHCERBAKOV
Premier Secrétaire
Ambassade de Russie
40-50 Bd Lannes
Paris 16
Alternate
Alexander TITARENKO
Head of Division for
Foreign Affairs of the
Russian Federation
Smolenskaya-Sennaya Sq., 32/34
Moscow
Email: [email protected]
HOLY SEE - SAINT-SIEGE - SANTE SEDE
Mgr. Renato VOLANTE
auprès de la FAO
Mission Permanente d’Observation
du Saint-Siège
Palazzo S. Calisto
I-00120 Cité du Vatican
Rome
Italie
Tel: +39 06-698 87234
Fax: +39 06-698 87195
SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA - ORDRE SOUVERAIN DE MALTE -
ORDEN SOBERANA DE MALTA
REPRÉSENTANTS DES NATIONS UNIES ET INSTITUTIONS SPÉCIALISÉES
REPRESENTANTES DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS
Y ORGANISMOS ESPECIALIZADOS
WORLD METEROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (WMO)
ORGANISATION MÉTÉOROLOGIQUE MONDIALE (OMM)
ORGANIZACIÓN METEOROLÓGICA MUNDIAL (OMM)
Delegate
Mannava SIVAKUMAR
Chief
Agricultural Meteorology Division
World Meteorological Organization
7 bis, avenue de la Paix
Case postale No. 2300
CH-1211
Genève 2
Switzerland
Fax: +41 22 7308042
Email: [email protected]
OBSERVERS FROM INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (IGOs)
OBSERVATEURS DES ORGANISATIONS INTERGOUVERNEMENTALES (OIGs)
OBSERVADORES DE LAS ORGANIZACIONES INTERGUBERNAMENTALES (OIGs)
CIHEAM
(CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE HAUTES ETUDES
AGRONOMIQUES MEDITERRANEENES)
Delegate
Bertrand HERVIEU
Secrétaire Général
11 rue Newton
75116 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 53239100
Fax: +33 1 53239102
Email: [email protected]
Alternates
Roberto CAPONE
Administrateur Principal
CIHEAM
11 rue Newton
75116 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 53239100
Fax: +33 1 53239102
Email: [email protected]
Gérard GHERSI
Directeur
Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen
3191 Route de Mende
34093 Montpellier Cédex 5
Tel: +33 04 67046000
Fax: +33 04 67542527
Email: [email protected]
EURAGRI
Delegate
P.A.Th.J. WERRIJ
Secretary General
EURAGRI Office
P.O. Box 9101
6700 HB Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 317485574
Fax : +31 317485617
Email : [email protected]
[email protected]
IOOC
(INTERNATIONAL OLIVE OIL COUNCIL
CONSEIL OLEICOLE INTERNATIONAL
CONSEJO OLEICOLA INTERNACIONAL)
Delegate
Ahmed TOUZANI
Director Ejecutivo en funciones
Principe de Vergara 154
28002 Madrid
Spain
Tel: +34 915 903638
Fax : +39 915 631263
Email : [email protected]
OBSERVERS FROM NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
OBSERVATEURS DES ORGANISATIONS NON GOUVERNEMENTALES
OBSERVADORES DE LAS ORGANIZACIONES NO GUBERNAMENTALES
AFFAO
Marcel MAZOYER
Vice Président
Professeur émérite de l’INA P-G
Villa No. 14
76 rue Rene Hamon
94800 Villejuif
France
Tel: +33 1 46784965
AIAB
(ITALIAN ORGANIZATION FOR
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE)
Andrea FERRANTE
Via Piave 14
00185 Rome
Italy
Fax: +39 06 45437469
Email: [email protected]
ASUR
(APPUI AUX POPULATIONS DÉPLACÉES)
Frédéric BOURG
Agropolis
Avenue Agropolis
34398 Montpellier
Cédex 5
Tel: +33 6 89881550
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
Thierry LESCOT
Attention Annie Maillard
Agropolis
34398 Montpellier Cédex 5
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
Joseph WEY
Recherche
Tel: +33 1 467617198
Email: [email protected]
CDG
(ITALIAN COMMITTEE CONSIGLIO
DIRITTI GENETICI)
Luca COLOMBO
Via Panaro 14
00199 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 0645438276
Email:
[email protected]
CER
(CENTRE FOR RURAL STUDIES AND
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT)
Shkelzen MARKU
Rruga Haxhi Sina Nr 4
Tirana
Albania
Tel: +355 4 269915
+355 682040761
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
CFSI
(COMITÉ FRANÇAIS POUR LA
SOLIDARITÉ INTERNATIONALE)
Yves BERTHELOT
Président
32 rue Le Peletier
75009 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 44838850
Email: [email protected]
Ms Anne Laure CONSTANTIN
Chargée de mission
CFSI et Plate-forme pour des
agricultures durables et solidaires
32 rue Le Peletier
75009 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 44838850
Email:
[email protected]
Pascal ERARD
Chargé de plaidoyer
32 rue Le Peletier
75009 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 44838850
Email: [email protected]
CNJA
(JEUNES AGRICULTEURS)
François VANIER
Rue de la Boétie 14
75382 Paris
France
Tel : +33 1 42 651751
Fax: +33 1 47 426284
Email: [email protected]
Benjamen LAMMERT
Conseiller
Rue de la Boétie 14
75382 Paris
France
Tel : +33 1 42 651751
Fax: +33 1 47 426284
Email:
[email protected]
CONSUMERS INTERNATIONAL
Miss Irina DANADA
Representation and Policy Officer
Consumers International –
Office for Developed and
Transition Economies
24 Highbury Crescent
London N5 1 RX
UK
Tel: +44 20 72266663
Fax: +44 20 73540607
Email: [email protected]
CRUN
(COORDINATION RURALE UNION
NATIONALE)
Bernard LANNES
Membre du Comité Directeur
B.P. 590
1 rue Darwin
32000 Auch Cedex 9
France
Tel: +33 5 62603283
Fax: +33 5 62601431
Email:
[email protected]
CSA
(COLLECTIF STRATÉGIES ALIMENTAIRES)
Alex DANAU
184d Boulevard Leopold II
1080 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel: +32 24120660
Fax : +32 24120666
Email : [email protected]
Daniel VAN DER STEEN
Coordinateur
Member of the Food Security Working Group of CONCORD
(European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development)
184 D, boulevard Léopold II
1080 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel : +32 24120663
Fax : +32 24120666
Email: [email protected]
Gerard VIATTE
Conseiller
Le Cap Horn
CH-1936 Verbier
Tel : +41 27 7711772
Email : [email protected]
EAAP/FEZ
(EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ANIMAL PRODUCTION
FÉDÉRATION EUROPÉENNE DE ZOOTECHNIE,
FEDERACIÓN EUROPEA DE ZOOTECNIA)
Louis Aimé AUMAITRE
Ingénieur Agronome
Directeur de Recherche E2 à l’INRA
Expert à l’AFSSA (France)
President de la Fédération Européenne de
Zootechnie
LA Aumaitre
INRA 35 590 Saint Gilles
France
Fax: +33 2 23485041
FIAN-Austria
(FOOD FIRST INFORMATIONS)
Ms Gertrude KLAFFENBÖCK
Section-Coordinator
Laudongasse 40
A-1080 Vienna
Austria
Tel: +43 1 4055515
Fax: +43 1 4055519
Email: [email protected]
FIAN-Belgium
Jonas VANREUSEL
Coordinator
Rue Van Elewijck 35
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 6408417
Fax: +32 2 6408417
Email: [email protected]
FNAE
(FÉDÉRATION NATIONALE D’AGRICULTURE
ÉCOLOGIQUE)
Mihai CARBUNAR
Oradea
Str. Bumbacului nr. 34
bl. D54, ap. 23, jud
Bihor
Romania
Email: [email protected]
FNSEA
(FÉDÉRATION NATIONALE DES SYNDICATS
D’EXPLOITANTS AGRICOLES)
Mlle Pauline RAUST
Chargée d’études
Production agricole
11 rue de la Baume
75008 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 53834702
Fax: +33 1 53834830
Email: [email protected]
Jean Pierre VAN RUYSKENSUELDE
Region Languedoc Roussillon
GAIA
(HUNGARIAN COOPERATIVE FOR ORGANIC
FARMING)
Fo út. 87
2193 Galgaheviz
Hungary
Tel: +36 309219952
Fax: +36 28460014
Email: [email protected]
GERMANWATCH
Ms Brigitta HERRMANN
Senior Adviser World Trade and
Food Issues
Referentin für Welthandel
Und Welternährung
Kaiserstrasse 201
53113 Bonn
Tel: +49 228 6049215
Fax : +49 228 6049219
Email : [email protected]
GRET
(GROUPE DE RECHERCHE ET
D’ÉCHANGES TECHNOLOGIQUES)
Pascal BERGERET
Responsable de Programmes
Coordinateur du Pôle Environnement
et Développement Rural
213 Rue Lafayette
75010 Paris
France
Tel : +33 140056158
Fax: +33 140056110
Email: [email protected]
ICU
(INDEPENDENT CONSUMER UNION)
Eyub HUSEYNOV
Director
25/18 28th May Street
Baku 370000
Azerbaijan
Fax: +99412 412833
Email: [email protected]
ICW
(INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN)
Mrs Lydie ROSSINI VAN HISSENHOVEN
ICW Permanent Representative to FAO
Via Thailandia 26
00144 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 065923993
Fax: +39 065923993
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
IPC for Food Sovereignty
Miss Beatrice GASCO VERDIER
Liaison Office
International NGO/CSO Planning
Committee for Food
Sovereignty
Via Garibaldi 6
01100 Viterbo
Italy
Tel: +39 0761 306589
Fax: +39 0761 323990
Email: [email protected]
ITDG
(INTERMEDIATE TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT GROUP)
Patrick MULVANY
Senior Policy Adviser
Schumacher Centre
Bourton
Rugby CV23 9QZ
UK
Tel: +44 1926 634469
Fax : +44 870 1275420
Email: [email protected]
LEGAMBIENTE
Avelio MARINI
Resp. Sviluppo Rurale
Via Salaria 403
00199 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 06 86268426
Fax: +39 06 86268397
Email: [email protected]
NORWEGIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND
Aksel NAERSTAD
Information Officer
Hvalstauv 36A
1395 Hvalstau
Norway
Tel: +47 22044739
Fax: +47 22352060
Email: [email protected]
PAL
(PLATFORM ANDERE LANDBOUW)
Jaap SPAAN
Member
Zuiderdijk 46b
1608 MV Wijdenes
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 229501253
Fax: +31 229501069
Email: [email protected]
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Patrice WALLER
Rotary International
20 rue Ernest Deloison
92200 Neuilly S/S
France
Fax: +33 1 45049398
Email: [email protected]
SYNDICAT DE PAYSANS LIBRES
DE MARAMURES
Gheorghe MURES-AN
Localité MIRESU-MARE
No 257 Département Maram
4826 Miresu-Mare
Romania
Tel: +40 262284291
VREDESEILANDEN
Gert ENGELEN
Blijde inkomst straat 50
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Tel: +32 16 316580
Fax: +32 16 316581
Email: [email protected]
WERKGROEP VOOR EEN RECHTVAARDIGE
EN VERANTWOORDE
Louis DE BRUYN
Président
Paleizenstraat 90
1030 Brussels
Belgium
Tel : +32 2 2036029
Email: [email protected]
ZZ CNMR
Tomasz PANCZYSZYN
ul Kotarbinskiego 1 c/6
75352 Koszailin
Tel: +486 93076140
Email: [email protected]
FAO STAFF
FONCTIONNAIRES DE LA FAO
FUNCIONARIOS DE LA FAO
Jacques Diouf Director-General
Ms Jutta Krause Regional Representative for Europe
Ms Maria Kadlecikova Sub-regional Representative for Central and Eastern Europe
Randy Stringer Chief, Comparative Agricultural Development Service, ESAC
Jean-Louis Jouve Chief, Food Quality and Standards Service, ESNS
David Sedik Policy Assistance Branch, REUP
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
SECRETARIAT DE LA CONFERENCE
SECRETARÍA DE LA CONFERENCIA
Ms Daniela Moro Secretary, Regional Conference and ECA/Conference
Affairs Officer
Gilles Hirzel Information Officer
Michal Demes Information Systems Officer
Raimund Jehle Reports Officer
APPENDIX B
I. INTRODUCTORY ITEMS
1. Opening Ceremony
2. Election of the Chairperson, Vice-Chairpersons and Appointment of Rapporteur:
for decision
3. Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable: for decision (ERC/04/1-Rev.1 and
ERC/04/INF/2-Rev. 1)
II. STATEMENTS
4. Statement by the Director-General (ERC/O4/INF/4)
III. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
5. Follow-up to the World Food Summit and World Food Summit:fyl : Regional
Dimensions: for discussion (ERC/04/3)
6. Food Safety and Quality in Europe: Aspects concerning in particular quality,
nutritional balance, the importance of agricultural land and cultural heritage
(“terroirs”) (Outcome of the 33rd Session of the European Commission on
Agriculture): for discussion (ERC/04/4, ERC/04/INF/10 and ERC/04/LIM/1)
7. Agricultural Research: its role and contribution to sustainable rural development:
for discussion (ERC/04/5 and ERC/04/5-Sup.1)
8. Review of the State of Food and Agriculture in the Region: Focus on Rural
Poverty: for discussion (ERC/04/6)
9. Report on FAO Activities in the Region 2002-03: for discussion and/or
information (ERC/04/2)
10. International Year of Rice, 2004: for information (ERC/04/INF/5)
11. Programme for Bridging the Rural Digital Divide to reduce Food Insecurity
and Poverty: for information (ERC/04/INF/6)
12. Initiative to Review and Update National Agricultural, Rural Development and
Food Security Strategies and Policies: for information (ERC/04/INF/7)
IV. OTHER MATTERS
13. Date, Place and main theme(s) of the Twenty-fifth FAO Regional Conference
for Europe: for decision
14. Any other business
15. Adoption of the Report
16. Closure of the Conference
APPENDIX C
STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL
Mr Chairman,
Distinguished Ministers,
Honourable Delegates,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
(Introduction)
It is a great pleasure to address the Twenty-fourth FAO Regional Conference for Europe, which is being held in France for the first time, in this modern and dynamic city of Montpellier. On behalf of the Organization and of all of you, I should like to express my profound gratitude to the French Government and to the authorities of the Languedoc-Roussillon region for hosting this Conference and for their warm welcome.
(State of food and agriculture in the world)
During the first half of the 1990s, the number of undernourished people in the world declined by 37 million. In contrast, during the second half, it increased by 18 million. Positive achievements in many countries were countered by setbacks in many others. In 1999-2001, there were 842 million undernourished people in the world, including 798 million in the developing countries, 34 million in the countries in transition and 10 million in the industrialized countries. At this rate, the World Food Summit’s objective of halving the number of hungry people by 2015 will only be achieved in 2150.
In 2003, world cereal utilization totalled some 1 970 million tonnes, exceeding production by 100 million tonnes.
The prices of many export commodities from developing countries are now lower than ever. Coffee is one of the most spectacular examples, but the same has occurred for cocoa, sugar and banana. Moreover, 43 countries earn more than 20 percent of their total export revenue and more than 50 percent of their total agricultural revenue from just one commodity.
After the failure of the Cancun Ministerial Conference, negotiations have resumed following the meeting of the General Council of the World Trade Organization in December 2003. Commitment to achieving the Doha Development Agenda for the agricultural sector was confirmed at the Round Table held on this subject during the Thirty-second Session of the FAO Conference, for a fair trading policy essential for rural development and food security. In this context, the role of FAO’s Committee on Commodity Problems is more important than ever. It is with this in mind that I wish to invite representatives of the Ministries of Trade to the next session of this Committee in February 2005.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations should promote agricultural development and protect the income of farmers in all countries of the world. FAO should support all actions that defend the parity of farmers’ incomes with those of workers in the secondary and tertiary sectors. Related measures should not however cause distortions in the international agricultural commodity market, with a resulting deterioration of living conditions of farmers in developing countries, as has happened with cotton.
At constant 1995 prices, external aid to agricultural development fell from US$27 billion to between US$10 and 15 billion during the 1990s, whereas the amount should be doubled and agriculture’s share of national budgets should be increased if there is to be accelerated progress in reducing undernourishment.
(Round tables on financing for agricultural development)
For the purpose of mobilizing such financial resources, FAO has decided to organize, with the regional development banks, round tables on financing for agriculture alongside each of its 2004 Regional Conferences in the developing regions.
(World Food Summit: five years later)
During the June 2002 World Food Summit: five years later held in Rome, the Heads of State and Government resolved to hasten implementation of the Summit’s Plan of Action and called for an International Alliance Against Hunger.
National alliances are thus being formed in member countries to mobilize governments, parliaments, NGOs, civil society, the private sector and agricultural organizations.
(Agriculture)
The developing countries need to take up the challenge of agricultural productivity and market competitiveness in order to improve their food security.
Soil degradation is accelerating, affecting 21 million hectares of arable land. In the arid and semi-arid areas that make up 45 percent of the world’s land surface, the integrated management of land, water and fertilizer can significantly mitigate this situation.
Urban and periurban agriculture and home and school microgardens would help rapidly improve the nutritional status of poor population groups with relatively modest levels of investment. FAO has undertaken such projects in all the regions of the world, notably with Technical Cooperation Programme resources and TeleFood funds.
Livestock sustains some 800 million rural poor and meets 30 to 40 percent of total food requirements.
Transboundary animal diseases, such as foot-and-mouth disease, haemorrhagic fever, Rift Valley fever, swine fever, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and avian influenza, are sources of concern for trade and public health. Yet, real progress has been made in this domain. The battle against old and new epidemics is a major challenge that FAO and its partners are striving to meet under the Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES).
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has already been ratified by 48 countries, including 12 European countries, and will come into force on 29 June 2004.
(Forestry)
A ministerial meeting on forestry will be convened in Rome in 2005 to study the recommendations of the Regional Commissions and to make strategic decisions on the future of the sector, especially to strengthen measures against forest fires.
(Fisheries)
In the fisheries sector, almost 10 percent of the world’s fish stocks are depleted and 18 percent are overexploited, mainly because of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, more efficient new technologies and excessive fishing capacity. The situation is aggravated by the absence of monitoring and surveillance of vessels employing satellite transponder technology, in particular.
FAO will therefore be convening a meeting of Fisheries Ministers at its Headquarters in 2005 to add renewed impetus to actions needed in this sector.
(Sustainable agricultural development)
As regards sustainable agriculture and rural development, FAO is formulating a four-year project for mountain regions.
The International Conference of Small Island Developing States will be held in Mauritius in August 2004. FAO is actively involved in this initiative and will organize a Ministerial Conference on the Development of Agriculture in Small Island States in Rome in 2005.
Although women account for 60 percent of agricultural production in developing countries, they still have unequal access to productive resources. FAO is striving to tackle this problem, devising specific indicators for appropriate policies.
(Emergency situations)
At the end of 2003, 38 countries were faced with serious food shortages requiring international assistance. Food aid in cereals fell to 7.4 million tonnes in 2001-2002, down 23 percent from 2000-2001.
Eight million small farmers and agricultural workers died from HIV/AIDS between 1985 and 2000 in the 25 most affected countries. FAO is involved in the fight against this pandemic, conducting surveys of its impact on food security and developing agricultural production techniques that are less labour intensive.
(State of food and agriculture in the region)
Mr Chairman,
Distinguished Ministers,
Honourable Delegates,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This Conference meets at a historic moment for Europe as ten more countries have just become members of the European Union.
Europe is a very diversified region. It includes some of the most advanced countries of the world as well as others that have high levels of poverty. Factors fuelling poverty in the past fifteen years include the difficulties associated with moving from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, declining production in agriculture and the agrifood sector and resulting unemployment. In the Balkans, the situation has been further exacerbated by conflict.
The level of poverty in the region based on a poverty line of less than US$2 per day stands at 21 percent and 5 percent of the population are affected by food insecurity. Such levels are lower than in most other parts of the world but significant differences exist among the countries.
Agricultural production in the region as a whole fell by about 0.5 percent per year between 1998 and 2003. Agricultural production gained in the so-called "transition" countries that were able to complete their land reform rapidly or that did not need to restructure their agricultural sectors as farms were already in private hands.
Agriculture accounted for 12 percent of the region's Gross Domestic Product in 2001. Agricultural exports represented 7.4 percent of total exports in 2002, for a value of US$211 billion, against agricultural imports of US$222 billion. The 25 countries of the European Union account for more than 90 percent of these figures.
The year 2003 was unfortunately not a good year for agriculture in most countries of the region. Drought, frost, flooding and other problems, such as locust and rodent infestation, led to a sharp decline in agricultural production, especially in Armenia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine.
During the last biennium, six countries of the Balkans and Commonwealth of Independent States received emergency assistance from FAO to deal with crises in their agricultural sectors, for a total of some US$15 million, including US$2 million under the Technical Cooperation Programme. FAO also helped prepare the agricultural components of the United Nations Consolidated Appeals in the region.
(The Conference agenda)
Mr Chairman,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
(Quality of food products)
Improving the safety and quality of food products remains a key objective of governments, private sector and civil society organizations of all the countries of the region. Such improvement will help safeguard public health, meet consumer expectations and encourage local and international trade.
(Role of agricultural research in sustainable rural development)
The transfer and adoption of appropriate technology is essential for the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems. Very important to Europe in this connection are the promotion of exchanges, the existence of regional and global partnerships and the strengthening of linkages between public and private research, extension, education and communication institutions.
(Follow-up to the World Food Summit)
The Conference will be reviewing the follow-up to the World Food Summit and the initiatives taken to achieve the Summit's objectives and the Millennium Development Goals. It will also be looking at the measures that have been taken under the Anti-Hunger Programme, the Right to Adequate Food and the International Alliance Against Hunger.
(Main challenges and priorities for the future)
Mr Chairman,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Special attention needs to be paid to the poorest countries of the region, especially those of southeast Europe and the Community of Independent States, to help resolve their problems of food insecurity and rural poverty.
FAO must continue to pursue its long-term priorities for Europe which extend until 2007 and which were determined at its Twenty-second Regional Conference for Europe four years ago. The region must take up the challenge of poverty and concentrate on strengthening sustainable rural livelihoods and food security. It also needs to improve food safety and quality and the management of natural resources. Lastly, it needs to strengthen its institutions and facilitate transition to a market economy, especially in the agricultural sector.
FAO is seeking to meet these challenges by working in close collaboration with its development partners in the region and with individual governments in order to address national priorities as defined in their poverty reduction policies and strategies and related programmes.
Through its Investment Centre, FAO is working with the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and other financial institutions in establishing pilot technical cooperation projects. These could serve as models for the sustainable development and modernization of the agricultural sector and subsequently evolve into programmes that are much broader in scope.
I am confident that a determined Europe can meet the challenges of poverty and food insecurity. FAO, for its part, will continue to support governments and regional partners for the implementation of coherent and effective programmes and for the mobilization of domestic and external financing.
I wish you every success in your work and thank you for your kind attention.
APPENDIX D
GENERAL STATEMENT BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NGOs/CSOs CONSULTATION ON THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE WORLD FOOD SUMMIT:FIVE YEARS LATER AND ON THE PROMOTION OF THE RIGHT TO FOOD
Referring to the World Food Summit: five years later’s call for more political will and financial resources to eradicate hunger and malnutrition, the organizations taking part in the FAO/NGO-CSO Regional Consultation for Europe, held before the Twenty-Fourth FAO Regional Conference for Europe, put forward the following viewpoints and challenges to the governmental delegations participating in the FAO Regional Conference.
We request that the governments fulfil their obligations to secure everyone’s right to food.
It is unacceptable that 842 million people in the world and 13.8 million people in Europe are undernourished or starving. It is possible to end hunger and undernourishment quickly. What is lacking is the political will of the governments. We request that the governments of Europe immediately end undernourishment in Europe and do whatever is possible to contribute to ending hunger in the world.
2. The principle of food sovereignty has to be recognized and adopted
We challenge the governments to recognize and adopt the principle of food sovereignty. We ask the delegates to recommend that FAO make a report on the concept and on the consequences of adopting the principle of food sovereignty.
Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self reliant; to restrict the dumping of products in their markets; and to provide local fisheries-based communities the priority in managing the use of and the rights to aquatic resources. Food sovereignty does not negate trade, but rather, it promotes the formulation of trade policies and practices that serve the rights of peoples to safe, healthy and ecologically sustainable production.
There are many positive initiatives and encouraging examples of sustainable farming in Europe, but the development of agriculture in all European countries is going in the wrong, unsustainable direction. Industrialized agriculture - with increasingly bigger farms, the use of huge amounts of chemical fertilizer and pesticides, monocultures, heavy machinery, tapping of ground water and less and less varieties - is not sustainable. The rapid closing down of small farms in all European countries is alarming, and the trend has to be reversed. Family farms with low input and diversified production mainly for local and domestic markets represent the future of farming and should be strongly supported by all governments.
We request that the level of official development assistance (ODA) from the OECD countries in Europe increases drastically, and we challenge the governments to cooperate with the NGOs and CSOs in Europe and our partner organizations in the developing countries to improve the quality of development assistance.
We cannot accept that less than 15 percent of the ODA from the OECD countries goes to agriculture. Between 60 and 90 percent of the population in the developing countries are living in the countryside and are directly dependent on agriculture. About 75 percent of the undernourished people and people living in extreme poverty are farmers.
Development assistance is not only being used to eradicate hunger and poverty, and to promote sustainable development, but also to push policies that will increase poverty and hunger, reducing biodiversity and causing other environmental harm. An example of this is the push for GM-food in development aid. We therefore underline that the increase of development assistance for agriculture and rural development and the improvement of the quality of development assistance have to go hand in hand.
Better aid supports local communities and community-based organizations, particularly in building political empowerment, the capacity of people to articulate their views, implement their own development models, and participate meaningfully in development processes. It recognizes that the needs and realities of rural communities are at the core of solutions to solve hunger and poverty. Development assistance has to build on local and traditional knowledge and real participation.
We ask the governments in Europe and FAO to support the work of social movements, NGOs and governments for agrarian reform and to secure farmers the right to and access to land, water, seeds and other productive resources.
To eradicate hunger, undernourishment and poverty, it is necessary to undertake agrarian reform in many of the developing countries, and to secure farmers the right to and access to land, water, seeds and other productive resources, but the policies of some governments and international institutions are working in contradiction to this. There is an urgent need to change this. Most urgently, we call on the EU-member states, which are about to adopt Land Policy Guidelines for Development Cooperation, to involve NGOs/CSOs by means of broad regional consultation, in order to guarantee real redistributive effects of land reform, and a pro-poor focus on vulnerable groups and their human right of access to land.
The WFS: fyl has recognized the fundamental role of CSOs in meeting the objective of ending hunger. FAO has recognized the autonomy and the self-organization principle in its relations with CSOs and in particular with the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty.
Building on this process, FAO must ensure structural inclusion of CSOs in the normative and operational activities of the Organization. FAO must allow CSOs to participate in all the decision-making processes of the Organization in order to achieve a new governance in the UN system.
6. Promoting the right to food
Regarding the fact that
• most of the states present in the Regional Conference are parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and as such agreed to comply with its duties and obligations;
• they have in particular taken on responsibilities for the realization and full enjoyment of the Right to Food for every person in their territory;
• States have also agreed to work in close cooperation with other states for the full realization of these rights in all countries;
Regarding the fact that
• in the Final Declaration of the World Food Summit: fyl, member states of FAO have agreed to develop ‘Voluntary Guidelines for the Implementation of the Right to Adequate Food’ (VG);
• the current draft under negotiation includes opportunities to strengthen the right to food and abolish hunger and malnutrition, but it still has weaknesses;
We, the participants of the FAO/NGO-CSO Regional Consultation for Europe in conjunction with the 24th FAO Regional Conference,
• Denounce the positions of states which try to weaken the language, objectives and scopes of the VG negotiation process;
• Regret that the EU, until now, has not undertaken any efforts to set limits to these tendencies. We call on all the European states to strongly support the implementation of the right to food, especially related to the following elements:
Elements:
• States have to refer explicitly in the VG to the states’ obligations to respect, protect, fulfil and comply with their obligation of progressive realization of the right to food.
• There must not be any retrogression in the already agreed language of existing international law. No phrase of the Voluntary Guidelines should deny the justiciability of the right to food as a basic principle. The right to food also poses extraterritorial obligations to states, which must be recognized.
• The Voluntary Guidelines should make a distinction between the countries that are states parties to the ICESRC and others.
• National strategy must be based on the assessment of causes of hunger.
• National strategies have to contain minimum elements, including the identification of vulnerable groups, improved access to productive resources (such as land, water, seeds and fishing resources), facilitated access to judicial procedures for all persons, particularly for vulnerable groups.
• Other national strategies (e.g. poverty reduction, rural development…) should not hinder or limit states in implementing the right to food. States should also provide for the participation of CSO/NGO in the elaboration and monitoring of the national strategy.
• States must not contribute to violations of the right to adequate food. States have to regulate and control the activities of third parties to prevent them from violating the right to adequate food of persons living on their territory.
International obligations in the Voluntary Guidelines have to be recognized by the European countries which are members of the FAO:
• As such, negative impact of states’ policies on third states in relation to the right to food must be avoided.
• State parties in different international organizations should ensure the consistence of policies and programmes of these organizations so that they do not deprive citizens of other countries of their right to adequate food. If conflicting obligations occur, the VG should make clear that human right obligations (the right to adequate food) are the primary obligations of state parties.
• The VG should duly recognize that the right to water is an essential component of the right to adequate food and the right to health.
• Possible hazards of trade must be recognized and its negative impact on the implementation of the right to food have to be addressed.
• Also, international sanctions must not affect the right to adequate food of any particular country.
• Finally, the monitoring of the implementation of the VG should be explicitly provided for.
We strongly call on the European states for a final text of the Voluntary Guidelines, in which these topics are duly taken into account.
APPENDIX E
GENERAL STATEMENT BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NGOs/CSOs CONSULTATION ON FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY IN EUROPE
We, consumers, farmers and representatives of the rural world, of environmental organizations and of international solidarity organizations from throughout Europe, have discussed, during the course of intense debate, the very relevant but also extremely broad topic of food quality and safety.
In accordance with the document put before you by FAO, we define quality as aligning the characteristics of a product with the stated or implied, objective or symbolic requirements of the consumer.
Access to a sufficient quantity of quality food is a basic right. We solemnly ask that these rights, the right to food and the right to food sovereignty, be recognized and defended by FAO and its European members.
Each country, or group of countries, has the duty to provide its inhabitants with the food they require. Evoking the principle of food sovereignty, we declare that each nation has the right to decide its procurement in terms of origin, means of production, and social and environmental standards. The duty of the government authorities – your duty – is to put in place the policies and instruments that are needed to satisfy these demands.
1. A EUROPEAN MODEL OF CONSUMPTION
We call for a European model of consumption that is based on quality and diversity, inherited from farmer know-how, from tradition and from cultural heritage. We also note that the prevailing agricultural model does not always correspond to our expectations.
The current norms of food processing and distribution that are determined under the influence of market oligopolies lead to the deterioration of flavour, the disappearance of product diversity and the standardization of consumption patterns, with a negative impact on the wellbeing and health of consumers.
In addition, trade and agricultural policies implemented under the impetus of the WTO tend to align agricultural commodity prices with those of the global producers that can offer the lowest prices and that exploit labour and the environment. These prices are widely applied to European farmers but they do not remunerate their work. Resulting falling prices cause certain agroindustrial enterprises to seek ever lower prices and, in doing so, to adopt dangerous policies that cannot meet consumer expectations but that can endanger their health.
We ask Member States and FAO:
- that producer and consumer organizations be involved in determining Codex Alimentarius standards and in defining European, national and regional food standards;
- that you support all education and information actions that can foster direct dialogue between consumers and farmers;
- that every means be deployed for food labelling to be clearer and more relevant to the consumers of all European countries, so that they may make informed choices and thus influence modes of production by their purchasing behaviour;
- to ensure that geographical specifications and designations of origin are protected at international level. They are one of the strong components of the European food model and the reflection of our culture, of our history, of our territories and of the men and women that keep them alive.
2. THE MODEL OF FAMILY FARMING
We ask that you defend family farming as the only model capable of meeting the requisites of the food production system we advocate. This means introducing agricultural policy based on regulation of supply to match domestic consumption, on protection at borders to guarantee producers remunerative prices and on halting the export of subsidized products that depress developing-country markets. In recognition of the principle of food sovereignty, we ask that such a policy be placed within the scope of any country or group of countries.
In addition, for the export crops (coffee, cocoa, cotton, sugar, banana…) that enable the least advanced countries, notably the ACP countries, to earn the financial resources they need for their development, we ask that import quotas at guaranteed remunerative prices be maintained or established.
That is the only way that you will achieve your set objective of eradicating hunger from the world.
3. A REMUNERATIVE PRICE POLICY
A remunerative price policy would be the best means of ensuring harmonious expansion that was considerate to the new members of the European Union, as it would help secure the financial resources needed to develop infrastructure and the economy and to support family farms and local processing industries.
A price policy is also feasible for consumers: a 25 percent increase in agricultural prices would only mean a surcharge of one to two percent for the consumer. This simple observation causes us to question the distribution of added value within the agricultural supply chain and to ask whether producers and consumers are not hostages to the interests of large-scale distribution. We ask the public authorities to restore a state of balance in market relations.
4. THE REFORM OF THE EUROPEAN UNION’S COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY
The organizations participating in this consultation are particularly unhappy with the actual trends of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. The reform adopted in Luxembourg in June 2003 runs counter to the model that we defend. The fall in prices, with decoupled support, is a negation of the value of the work of small farmers. This reform is also a cover to continue dumping products on domestic and international markets. It will also undoubtedly lead to desertification and to irreversible loss of agricultural land and know-how in the less developed parts of the European Union.
5. CONCLUSION
If the diversified European food and agriculture model is to continue to exist, the young must be encouraged to take up farming and must be given long-term prospects of proper income and social recognition.
The only policy that can combine all these advantages must necessarily be defined together with the consumers, the farmers and the representatives of the rural world, of environmental organizations and of international solidarity organizations of the whole of Europe. Only so can our respective demands be reconciled.
That is the policy we propose and earnestly call for.
APPENDIX F
GENERAL STATEMENT BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NGOs/CSOs CONSULTATION ON AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Agricultural research in Europe is largely reductionist and geared towards industrial agriculture and food production. The need for standardization, economies of scale and economic returns has distanced farmers from consumers. Such research is largely oblivious to the environment. The technical choices are harmful to health and the environment, and there is no monitoring of risks. The European legislative framework for GMOs needs to be unified and enhanced by including regulations on the responsibility of patent holders and of government authorities that have authorized GMOs.
The world will not be fed by industrial agriculture. There is an urgent need, rather, to maximize benefit from the diversity of local environments, cultural heritage and farmer practices, the diversity of life forms and the diversity of human societies. This is where smallholder farming, breeding and innovation play a central role. Small-farmer know-how is today restricted by intellectual property regulations (UPOV and patents) and mandatory registration in the catalogue of distinct, homogeneous and stable seeds (DHS). This know-how needs to be rehabilitated, disseminated and shared within societies. This is where research can play an enabling role for the dissemination of small-farmer know-how, adopting a holistic, participatory approach that involves farmers, consumers, the scientific third party of associations with acquired competence, and the other social actors.
European agricultural research is now dominated by biotechnology. Through the GEF, the World Bank favours a liberal approach to GMOs in the legislative frameworks of the countries of East Europe and of the South.
It seems impossible to reform the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) from within, as it is designed and structured to support the development of an industrial approach to agriculture. This institutional rigidity seems to be reinforced by the rigidity of scientists and technicians, who are overly specialized in training and ill-equipped to face the complexities of reality. We also note a strong reluctance on the part of the scientific community to break out of this mould.
There is a very wide range of alternative initiatives and projects to the prevailing industrial system, especially as regards agroecology. These activities testify to the success of small-farmer agriculture but have not received capital investment or been publicized. The formation of multisectoral research teams pursuing a holistic approach is essential for the fostering of agroecological (which includes organic) and small-farmer agriculture if it is capable of involving all the actors.
Civil society concludes by firmly requesting the following of governments and FAO:
1. The results of agricultural research should not be patented and no priority should be given to genetic engineering technologies.
2. FAO should establish a reference framework for international agricultural research that is based on small-farmer know-how and on a holistic, participatory approach that includes farmers, consumers and the other social actors.
3. Governments should give financial priority to the realization of these programmes.
4. FAO wishes to broaden its sphere of governance. Organized civil society calls for this to be extended to agricultural research. FAO seems to be the only UN agency capable of leading a new orientation of agricultural research that is holistic, small-farmer centred and conducted along genuinely participatory lines.
5. A budget line allocated to agroecological agriculture to serve as a means of entry to this new approach. The sharing of experiences, information and training should be integrated into a capacity-building strategy.
6. With regard to agricultural research, FAO should promote the issue of agriculture and food sovereignty in all multilateral agreements on the environment and in strategic plans to reduce poverty.
7. FAO needs to protect small-farmer research and biodiversity against the restrictions imposed by the WTO agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). As for implementation of the International Treaty on Plant and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, governments need to ensure that genetic resources are not patented and remain freely available to farmers.
FAO members in the European Region (November 2003)
Albania |
France |
Norway |
Armenia |
Georgia |
Poland |
Austria |
Germany |
Portugal |
Azerbaijan |
Greece |
Romania |
Belgium |
Hungary |
San Marino |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Iceland |
Serbia and Montenegro |
Bulgaria |
Ireland |
Slovakia |
Croatia |
Israel |
Slovenia |
Cyprus |
Italy |
Spain |
Czech Republic |
Latvia |
Sweden |
Denmark |
Lithuania |
Switzerland |
Estonia |
Luxembourg |
TFYR of Macedonia |
European Community |
Malta |
Turkey |
(member organization) |
Moldova |
Ukraine |
Finland |
Monaco |
United Kingdom |
Netherlands |
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Date and place of FAO Regional Conferences for Europe
First - Rome, Italy, 10-15 October 1949
Second - Rome, Italy, 10-15 October 1960
Third - Rome, Italy, 8-13 October 1962
Fourth - Salzburg, Austria, 26-31 October 1964
Fifth - Seville, Spain, 5-11 October 1966
Sixth - St. Julian’s, Malta, 28-31 October 1968
Seventh - Budapest, Hungary, 21-25 September 1970
Eighth - Munich, Germany, Fed.Rep.of, 18-23 September 1972
Ninth - Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-12 October 1974
Tenth - Bucharest, Romania, 20-25 September 1976
Eleventh - Lisbon, Portugal, 2-7 October 1978
Twelfth - Athens, Greece, 22-27 September 1980
Thirteenth - Sofia, Bulgaria, 4-8 October 1982
Fourteenth - Reykjavik, Iceland, 17-21 September 1984
Fifteenth - Istanbul, Turkey, 28 April-2 May 1986
Sixteenth - Cracow, Poland, 23-26 August 1988
Seventeenth - Venice, Italy, 3-7 April 1990
Eighteenth - Prague, Czechoslovakia, 24-28 August 1992
Nineteenth - Killarney, Ireland, 6-10 June 1994
Twentieth - Tel Aviv, Israel, 29 April-3 May 1996
Twenty-first - Tallinn, Estonia, 25-29 May 1998
Twenty-second - Porto, Portugal, 24-28 July 2000
Twenty-third - Nicosia, Cyprus, 29-31 May 2002
Twenty-fourth - Montpellier, France, 5-7 May 2004
2 Held in Montpellier on 3 and 4 May 2004. The Statement of the Consultation is attached as Appendix D to this Report.
4 The statement is attached in Appendix E to this Report
5 ERC/04/4
13 Side-event linked to Item 6: ‘Food Quality and Sustainable Development’
Side-event linked to Item 7: ‘Agricultural Research at the Service of Sustainable Rural Development’
14 (i) Presentation of the project ‘Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Mountain Regions (SARD-M)’
(ii) Field programme on current projects in the Western Balkans and future approach (Serbia and Montenegro and the FYR of Macedonia)