Declaration from Social Movements/NGOs/CSOs Parallel Forum to the World Food Summit on Food Security - Rome

We, 642 persons coming from 93 countries and representing 450 organisations of peasant and
family farmers, small scale fisher folk, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, youth, women, the
urban people, agricultural workers, local and international NGOs, and other social actors,
gathered in Rome from the 13 -17 of November, 2009 united in our determination to work for
and demand food sovereignty in a moment in which the growing numbers of the hungry has
surpassed the one billion mark. Food sovereignty is the real solution to the tragedy of hunger
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