On September 30, 2002, USAID awarded the Food Security III Cooperative Agreement (under a Leader with Associates [LWA] Agreement mode) to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics at Michigan State University. It was a potential 10-year project, with renewal after the first 5 years contingent on an evaluation.
Somos una asociación formada por personas que creemos en la necesidad de cambiar el sistema agroalimentario actual, que oprime y expulsa a las comunidades rurales, y destruye el medio ambiente. Este cambio pasa por la consecución de la Soberanía Alimentaria.
VISIÓN: La consecución de una sociedad justa, equitativa y solidaria, a través del ejercicio de una solidaridad responsable y respetuosa.
The Future Agricultures Consortium is an Africa-based alliance of research organisations seeking to provide timely, high-quality and independent information and advice to improve agricultural policy and practice in Africa.
Through a network of over 90 researchers across the region and around the world, we are showing how agricultural policy in Africa can help to reduce poverty and strengthen agricultural growth.
The international peasant's voice
Unity among peasants, landless, women farmers and rural youth
The FSN Forum. A partner at global, regional and national level
The FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum), launched in 2007 and managed by the Agricultural Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is based on the rationale that food security and nutrition issues benefit from being discussed and leveraged by a large community of people.
The Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security (Agri-Gender) is an international, open access, peer-reviewed and refereed journal published by the Africa Centre for Gender, Social Research and Impact Assessment. The main objective of Agri-Gender is to provide an intellectual platform for international scholars to publish their research work on gender, agriculture and food security.
The aim of Agri-Gender is to promote interdisciplinary research related to gender and the agricultural and food sciences.
The International Agri-Food Network (IAFN) was formed in 1996 during the World Food Summit as an informal coalition of international trade associations involved in the agri-food sector at the global level. The network facilitates liaison among the member organizations and engages international organizations in the agri-food chain at a global level.
CIARD is a global movement dedicated to open agricultural knowledge. We help to align the efforts of national, regional and international institutions, and to establish better connections to improve sharing of information and services.
Partners in CIARD believe that open knowledge makes it easier to develop better solutions to agricultural challenges. Furthermore, we contribute to reducing hunger and poverty, because agricultural development is such an important driver of economic growth.
in: http://www.foodsovereignty.org/about-us/; 14/03/2016
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty is the world’s largest Alliance of small-scale food producers, peasant family farmers, artisanal fisher folks, pastoralists, nomads, indigenous peoples and indigenous organizations, the landless, urban producers, alternative consumer movements, rural workers and grassroots organizations, whose aim is to advance the food sovereignty agenda at the global and regional level.
Founded in 1962, the CIHEAM is a Mediterranean intergovernmental organisation devoted to the sustainable development of agriculture and fisheries, food and nutrition security and rural and coastal areas.
Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.
