Organizations from the entire continent managed to include the concept of Food Sovereignty in the FAO against the hegemonic concept of Food Security, which understands that there is enough food for the population, although it doesn’t take into account who produces food and how.

The organizations had raised the need to broaden and relaunch the campaign for a discussion and implementation of Food Sovereignty at the 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty and this is what they expressed before the official representatives gathered in Palacio San Martin, Buenos Aires, capital city of Argentina.

On Monday, March 26th, the governments accepted the presence with full powers of the civil society commissioned by the Conference to take the main conclusions of the four days of work. The movements also demanded that “the position of the Civil Society is included in multisectoral consultations, especially around a Global Strategic Framework that includes Food Sovereignty as the most important claim of social movements and as the main principle of said Framework”.

In addition, they demanded governments and the FAO to “stop and reject the grabbing of land and other natural resources and promote the implementation of the Guidelines on the Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests together with social organizations and small-scale food producers, by establishing platforms or participatory national tables for their implementation, monitoring and the assessment of their impacts in the realization of the Right to Adequate Food”.