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Long live the Madrid Process!
05/02/2009 By Jose Luis Vivero Pol
In this Comment, Jose Luis Vivero Pol takes a positive look at the results of the High Level Meeting on Food Security in Madrid. The Madrid Meeting has yielded some remarkable results, including the launching of the Madrid Process of Consultations, additional financial commitments to increase agricultural productivity, and the clear message that the “business as usual” approach should be changed and the governance of the current global agricultural and food system reformulated.
Hunger rates seem to have reached breaking point, and in the current era of global crises (environment, energy, food, finances, economies, de-regulated markets), decision makers appear determined to revamp the world food system that was first established in 1946 and later modified in 1974 after the food and oil crisis.
This Comment analyses the way in which such developments are now taking place under the so-called “Madrid Process” and how this seeks to think up a new global food system, the goal of which is to secure the right to food and produce more food in a more sustainable way.
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