International Food Security Network (IFSN): A grassroots partnership towards democratising global food security dialogues
International Food Security Network (IFSN) - a partnership of 1100+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 31 countries across continents – strives to strengthen its regional food security networks to ensure food and nutritional security in southern countries. The Network pr
omotes south-south dialogues and knowledge dissemination and aims at influencing policies and programmes for increased food security at national, regional and international level. Twelve organizations, six regional networks and twenty seven national networks spanning across the globe form the core of IFSN with Actionaid International in the lead. The Network - since its formation in 2004 - has been co-funded by European Commission. From April 2013, IFSN entered its third phase and now working towards ensuring regular, structured and inclusive dialogues between regional and global food security networks and governments and international organisations. The Network’s activities are geared further towards creating policy spaces for interaction between governments and CSOs and legislative spaces for regional frameworks on food security and nutrition, built on a human rights approach. In order to contribute to these processes the IFSN regional networks are working on developing policy positions, documenting best practices, and building institutional capacity. IFSN - in principle - constantly focuses on south-south solidarity and brings southern and grassroots voices to different multi-stakeholder dialogues, organises farmer to farmer exchanges, and undertakes study and research. The Network also actively engages with various food and nutritional security discussions at regional and global level, especially the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) in solidarity with social movements and other organisations. IFSN constantly strives to reach out to its target people that includes more than a one million right-holders, including smallholder farmers, women, fisher-folk, forest dwellers, indigenous groups, pastoralists, consumers and their community based organizations. OFFICIAL PARTNERS
ActionAid | ACTUAR (Associação para a Cooperação e o Desenvolvimento) | AIPE (Asociación de Instituciones de Promoción y Educación) | Ayuda en Acción | CCRD (Center for Rural Communities Research & Development) | CNCR (Counceil National de Concertation et de Cooperation des Ruraux) | FIAN | INCIDIN | Peuples Solidaires | SOS Sahel | sSTEP (Society for Social Transformation and Environmental Protection) | Unnayan Dhara
REGIONAL AND NATIONAL NETWORKS
ASASAN [Alianza por la Soberanía, Autonomía y Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional]
Red ASSAN y Ayuda en Acción, Bolivia
Planeta Paz y Ayuda en Acción, Colombia
FIAN International y Ayuda en Acción, Ecuador
Ayuda en Acción y Red Rural ONG, Paraguay
APSSAN, Perú
AFSN [Asia Food Security Network]
CIFPEN (Civil Society Inclusion for Food Security and Poverty Elimination Network), Vietnam
CNFSC (Community Network for Food Sovereignty in Cambodia), Cambodia
SAAG (Sustainable Agriculture Action Group), Pakistan
KHANI Bangladesh, Bangladesh
PRF (People’s Rights Forum), India
ESAFSN [East and Southern Africa Food Security Network]
Food Rights Alliance, Uganda
Food Security Advocacy Network, Malawi
National Food Security Network, Ethiopia
PALOP-CPLP [Network for Portuguese speaking African countries]
Civil Society Food Security Working Group, Angola
Civil Society Food Security Working Group, Cape Verde
ROSA (Rede das Organizações para Soberania Alimentar), Mozambique
RESCSAN-STP (The Civil Society Network for Food Security and Nutrition), Sao Tome and Principe
RESSAN-GB (The civil society Network for Food Security), Guinea-Bisseau
ROSA, Mozambique
RedCASSAN [Red Centroamericana de Seguridad y Soberanía Alimentaria]
ALIANZA SARA, Honduras
GISSAN, Nicaragua
REDSAG, Guatemala
REDSAES-REDSAL, El Salvador
WAFSN [West Africa Sub-regional Network]
FoodSPAN (Food Security and Policy Advocacy Network), Ghana
NAFS (National Alliance for Food Security), The Gambia
ROSSAD (Réseau des Organisations de la Société Civile pour la Sécurité Alimentaire Durable), Burkina Faso
ROSA (Réseau des Organisations Civile pour la Sécurité et la Souveraineté Alimentaires), Senegal
Contact
IFSN Global Management
ActionAid International
House-08, Road-136
Gulshan 1, Dhaka-1212
Bangladesh
Tel: +880 2 9894331
Fax: +880 2 8815087
www.ifsn.info
Twitter: www.twitter.com/foodsecuritynet
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For more information: Global Secretariat: AFM Shahidur Rahman, Global Coordinator [[email protected]], Hillol Sobhan, Communications Adviser [[email protected]], Alberta Guerra, Policy Advisor [[email protected]] and Miranda Davies, Finance Advisor: [[email protected] ]
