CSO Regional Consultation prior to the FAO 31stRegional Conference for Europe (ERC)

Civil Society Consultations are meetings organized autonomously by and for Civil Society actors in the region prior to the Regional Conferences of the FAO, meant to gather civil society organizations representing the relevant constituencies (smallholder farmers, fisher folk, pastoralists and herders, forest dwellers, ethnic minorities and indigenous people, urban poor, agriculture and food workers, rural youth and women, consumers, NGOs) in order to discuss key topics pertinent to the region, evaluate what FAO has done in the previous biennium, as well as specific agenda items of the Conference.