Committee Food Security and Sustainable Development

Title

Committee Food Security and Sustainable Development
Eighth Session of the Committee on Food Security and Sustainable Development and the Africa Regional Implementation Meeting for the Twentieth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
19 November 2012 to 21 November 2012
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Background

The Committee on Food Security and Sustainable Development

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), within the context of reform of its intergovernmental machinery, created the Committee on Food Security and Sustainable Development (CFSSD)1, by Resolution 853 (XL) in April 2007. The CFSSD is both a technical and a legislative organ and is composed of high-level experts from governments, academia, Research and Development (R&D) institutions, the private sector and civil society of ECA member States.

Parliamentary Documents

Main Outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - Implications for Africa

Implementation of the 2012/2013 Work Programme of the ECA Subprogramme on Food Security and Sustainable Development

Report on Livestock Value Chains in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Regional Perspective

Report on Climate for Development (ClimDev-Africa) in Africa Programme

Status of Food Security in Africa

AU-ECA-AfDB Land Policy Initiative. Supporting Land Policy Development and Implementation in Africa

Objectives of CFSSD-8

The main objectives of the CFSSD-8 are:
  1. To provide a platform for the Africa RIM for CSD-20 which will deliberate on the main outcomes of Rio+20 and adopt an outcome document to serve as Africa’s collective input to CSD-20; and
  2. To review progress in the implementation of the 2012/2013 work programme of ECA Subprogramme on Food Security and Sustainable Development (FSSDD), and provide guidance on further work during 2013.

Documents

Outcome Document of the Africa Regional Implementation Meeting for the Twentieth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development

Report of CFSSD8/Africa-RIM - Advance unedited version

Reports

The Africa Regional Preparatory Process for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development