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Why the Global Food Security Forum?

The Global Food Security Forum seeks to tackle, in an innovative way, the mounting challenge of feeding a growing world population while assuring food security for the most vulnerable. By confronting a wide range of perspectives, leveraging proven on-the-ground solutions, and capitalizing on the power of interactivity, this unique South-originated Forum will help identifying local solutions and promoting concrete actions to address the food security challenge.

This first edition of the Global Food Security Forum, to be held on March 7-9 2012 in Morocco, will bring together a group of key stakeholders from around the world for an action-oriented and solutions-focused debate. Participants will include experts, decision-makers and opinion leaders from a wide range of scientific, technical and policy fields, encompassing the academic, NGO, policy, investment and business communities.

The Forum will have a strong South-orientation, focusing on local aspects of global food security issues and on tailored solutions developed and implemented by "on-the-ground" actors.

The goal of the Global Food Security Forum is not only to foster a vigorous debate, but also to build a global and durable community of stakeholders to take action on food security. The GFSF is only the first step.

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Due to high level of interest, there are no more places available at the inaugural meeting of the Global Food Security Forum.
Please contact us if you would like to inquire about the invitation process for future meetings
organisation@globalfoodsecurityforum.com
The Global Food Security Forum will provide answers to the following questions:
  • What have we done wrong that we should have done differently?
  • What have we not done that we should start doing?
  • What has been the missing link in our approach / understanding?
  • What were the root causes of failure?
  • How can we increase yields while protecting smallholder farmers and the rural environment?
  • How do we introduce innovative techniques and inputs without creating a dependency and destabilizing local social structures?
  • Should we deliberately focus financing mechanisms and training programs on women, given their proven role in agriculture?
  • Why is it still so difficult for small farmers to get access to markets? Is it about infrastructure, growers' organizations, marketplaces?
  • How can rural social structures be preserved within a free trade network?
  • What can be done to curb rural flight?
  • What is the role of subsistence agriculture for smallholder farmers?
  • Do WTO policies and Free-Trade agreements help or hurt smallholder farmers?
  • What kind of subsidy policies should be implemented in emerging countries?
  • What is the role of policy makers in helping develop agriculture and rural communities?
  • What are the key underlying factors behind the rise in the price of food commodities?
  • Should we let speculative financial instruments drive the price of food commodities?
  • Is global regulation or stock management feasible? Will it be effective and sufficient?
  • What has been missing in Africa (but succeeded elsewhere) to make a Green Revolution?
  • What are the root causes of the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa?
  • What is the role of foreign food aid in helping African countries?
  • How can we protect African smallholder farmers from land grabbing?
The Global Food Security Forum is produced and animated by Richard Attias & Associates. Richard Attias is widely respected as the producer for many years of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, and for his key role in designing and launching the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nobel Laureates Conference, the Bahrain Education Project and the New York Forum.