World Food Day 16 October 2003
International Alliance against Hunger

You are cordially invited to a World Food Day Civil Society Event

FAO: Green Room, 16 October 2003, 14:30 - 17:30

We can and must stop hunger!
Civil Society plays its part

INTRODUCTION

FAO
  • Henri Carsalade, Assistant Director-General, Technical Cooperation Department
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    International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for the WFS:fyl (IPC)
  • Antonio Onorati, international focal point
  • Mario Ahumada, focal point for Latin America
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    International NGOs
  • Ursula Goh, Deputy President, Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW)
  • Pierre Cibambo, Caritas Internationalis
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    Associazione ONG Italiane
  • Sergio Marelli, President
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    CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVES

    "Africa can feed itself" campaign and "What agriculture for NEPAD?"
  • Mamadou Cissokho, Honorary President of the Network of peasant farmers' and agricultural producers' organizations of West Africa (ROPPA)
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    "More and better" an international campaign for agriculture and rural development aid to eradicate hunger and poverty
  • Rev. Arthur Simon, Bread for the World Institute
  • A representative of the Campaign against Famine in Ethiopia
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    Tomorrow's farmers and citizens in action
  • Kirsty Gray, Chair of World Board, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)
  • Leone Magliocchetti-Lombi, Sub-regional Director for Europe, International Association of Agricultural Students (IAAS)
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    THE WORLD OF GOVERNMENTS REACTS

    Reactions to the civil society initiatives by a panel of representatives of FAO, IFAD, WFP, IPGRI and governments.


    DISCUSSION

    CONCLUSIONS
  • Henri Carsalade and Mamadou Cissokho
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    Organized by FAO, the International NGO/CSO Planning Committee, and the Ad Hoc Group of INGOs
    resident in Rome in collaboration with IFAD, WFP with the support of the Associazione ONG Italiane