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Madrid talks: In the right direction but lack urgency and fund |
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 |
27-01-09: As UN Secretary General, General Ban
ki Moon and Spanish Premier, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, close the Madrid
High Level Meeting on Food Security and Agriculture, the Global Call to Action
against Poverty (GCAP) calls for a move from the right words to urgent action
by making sufficient funds available immediately, particularly to local
governments and local civil society. GCAP also demands that unfair trade, food
dumping as well as financial speculation on food, be stopped immediately.
GCAP Poverty Hearings in Southern countries in 2007 and 2008 have shown the
daily reality of unaffordable staple foods for millions of people. The
global financial crisis is directly affecting those working in informal
economies. As families starve, domestic and communal violence increases
and criminal networks increase their hold on vulnerable populations.
Meanwhile, this Madrid Declaration is focused on spending another year
building a Global Alliance for Agriculture and Food Security. Southern governments
are diplomatically calling this progress ‘slow’ and GCAP is not convinced the
best interests of food producers and poor consumers will be represented.
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Madrid meeting must have binding commitments to tackle rising hunger |
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 |
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)
alliance will be keeping a spotlight this week on the one billion people,
mostly women and children, directly affected by the past 18 months rise in food
prices. As Spain prepares to host a High Level Meeting on Food Security and
Agriculture, GCAP calls on those attending the meeting to accelerate the pace
and deliver a binding roadmap.
GCAP has been hearing from campaigners in
Southern countries that prices have not dropped despite the global economic
downturn and staple foods remain unaffordable. Meanwhile, this Madrid High
Level Event - a follow-up to the Rome Summit of June 2008 - aims to agree a new
proposal for a Global Alliance for Agriculture and Food Security but there are
few Southern people involved in the meeting itself.
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