SAWTEE and Oxfam organized the Second Civil Society Forum on Responding to Food Insecurity in South Asia from 24-25 February 2011 in Kathmandu.
A cross-section of over 50 stakeholders from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka participated in the Forum and adopted the Civil Society Statement on Food Security II, which contains a set of recommendations for the SAARC Agricultural Ministers, who were scheduled to meet in Dhaka on 3 March.
The recommendations are under six clusters: climate change, agriculture and food security; regional cooperation on trade in agricultural and food products; SAARC Food Bank; intellectual property rights and farmers' rights; technology transfer; and the SAARC Seed Bank and Material Transfer Agreement. The Statement also features 12 project ideas developed by the Forum for consideration by SAARC.
The Forum was a continuation of the first such Forum held in October 2008 which had also adopted a statement on food security.
The event was part of the Trade, Climate Change and Food Security Programme, which SAWTEE and Oxfam Novib are implementing in South Asia.
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