37th CFS Plenary Session, 17-22 October 2011, Rome
The CFS is the United Nations' forum for reviewing policies concerning world food. It is the most inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all relevant stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition.
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G20 leaders at their summit meeting in November 2010 endorsed the Seoul Development Consensus for Shared Growth and its Multi-Year Action Plan on Development. One of the 9 pillars of this Multi-Year Action Plan on Development focuses on Food Security
(abstract on food security from Multi- Year action plan on development available bellow)
The spike in food prices of last year (2008) underscored what experts have been telling us for many years: the world's food systems are in crisis