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L'ORIGINE DE LA CRISE ALIMENTAIRE MONDIALE
Décryptage avec Marcel Mazoyer, agronome et économiste (INA)
Entretien avec Marcel Mazoyer, de l'INA.
Propos recueillis par Viviane Thivent. Montage : Valerie Pasteau.
© CSI 2008
Encore merci à Jean-Pierre Petit
Extraits de son article Pourquoi les émeutes de la faim ?
11 mai 2008
"Marcel Mazoyer, chercheur à l'INRA, Institut National de l'agronomie, vous l'expliquera très simplement, en répondant à un certain nombre de questions :
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Les prix des céréales se sont mis à monter brutalement, et il explique pourquoi. Les stocks ont baissé, et soudain l'offre est devenue plus faible que la demande. Alors les prix ont flambé. C'est la " loi de Wall ". Voir page 19, dans ma bande dessinée l'Economicon:
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La loi de Wall
Un article sur la facette spéculative qui a accompagné cette flambée des prix.
Dans le commerce, qu'est-ce qu'on cherche à faire ? A gagner de l'argent, le plus possible. Ce qui fixe les prix c'est " la loi de l'offre et de la demande ".
Y a-t-il une limite ? Que nenni ! Ce qui est l'objet d'une demande inévacuable et qui se raréfie voit son prix flamber automatiquement, si le marché est libre. A Haïti, pays de misère, le prix des produits alimentaires a soudain doublé. Comme nous l'explique Mazoyer, les stocks de céréales ont baissé, progressivement. Après, dit-il, il suffit d'un rien. Une baisse de production dans des pays producteurs et exportateurs, comme l'Australie, du fait de mauvaises conditions climatiques, un accroissement de la demande (importations chinoises, demandes en agrocarburants) et la spirale démarre. Il ajoute que cette crise était totalement prévisible car un savait que les stocks de céréales mises en réserve diminuaient.
Mais ça n'est pas la demande chinoise ou la demande soudaine en agrocarburants qui sont la cause première du phénomène. Elles n'en sont que le déclencheur. La cause est ailleurs.
Passons sur les chiffres terrifiants que Mazoyer nous assène avec lassitude. Neuf millions d'hommes, de femmes et d'enfants meurent de faim chaque année. Trois milliards sont en dessous du seuil de pauvreté, survivent avec deux euros par jour. Deux milliards sont anémiés par le manque de qualité des nourritures qu'ils absorbent. Huit cent cinquante millions (il précise que le chiffre s'accroît chaque année ) ont le ventre tenaillé par la faim.
Dans cette interview, Mazoyer lâche une phrase qu'il faut attraper au vol : " les accords de Marrakech ". Vite, chercher. De fil en aiguille l'explication monte très vite, elle porte un nom : l'OMC, l'oganisation Mondiale du Commerce. Allez sur Google, tapez OMC. Cet organisme aime à se présenter lui-même. Il est né le 1° janvier 1995. Son siège est à Genêve et comporte 151 états-membres. .
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Avant l'OMC le monde correspondait aux accords du GATT (General Agreements of Tariffs and Trade : accords généraux sur les tarifs et le commerce). Cet accord, signé en 1947 par 23 pays correspond au commerce de l'après-guerre. Tout cela va de pair avec la création de la Banque Mondiale, dont Wolfowitz,, nommé par Georges Bush fut un des présidents et du FMI, du Fond Monétaire International.
Nous en sommes à un stade, à une époque où il faut s'informer, lire ce qui est disponible.
Restons-en au niveau de l'Organisation Mondiale du Commerce. C'est l'outil de la Mondialisation de l'économie. Cet organisme se base sur un credo : la disparition des barrières douanières, frein aux échanges. Ce credo est " plus les échanges seront actifs, plus on permettra la libre concurrence entre les différents producteurs et plus les prix baisseront, plus cela profitera au consommateur".
Il est évident que dans tous les domaines de l'activité économique ceci défavorise les petits producteurs dont l'activité se traduit par des coûts de production plus élevé. Je crois qu'il n'est pas nécessaire d'insister pour tout le monde soit conscient de ce phénomène. Les gros mangent les petits. Les petits disparaissent, les faibles sont éliminés. C'est la version économique du darwinisme. En parallèle les pays " se spécialisent ". Le pays qui pourra s'arroger une forte part dans la production sera celui qui offrira les coûts de production les plus bas. Mazoyer cite en exemple le Brésil qui cultive sur des vastes territoires, subissant une déforestation, en utilisant une main-d’œuvre à bon marché. Dans ces régions le coût de production des céréales peut descendre en dessous de 100 euros par tonne.
A l'inverse, les petits producteurs, les paysans qui travaillent sur des terres ingrates, qui subissent des facteurs d'échelle, qui ne disposent pas d'engins mécanisés, ni même d'animaux de trait ont des coûts de production quatre, cinq à six fois plus élevés. Dans le coût de production, il faut tout additionner : depuis le coût sur le terrain, sur qu'au coût de la marchandise collectée, acheminée, stockée (en assurant sa conservation), distribuée, que cela soit sur un marché international ou sur un marché intérieur. Un paysan habitant une campagne reculée, pourra être laminé par l'arrivage de denrées d'importation.
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Les petits producteurs ne font pas le poids devant des représentants de ce que Mazoyer appelle l'AGROBUISNESS qui allient vastes exploitations, moyens techniques sophistiqués, circuits d'acheminement et de distribution rapides et bien organisés, sur de vastes échelles, et main-d'oeuvre peu payée ( Brésil ).
Les petits paysans ne peuvent alors survivre face à une telle concurrence. Ils viennent alors grossir les bidonvilles. Mazoyer indique que 40 % des habitants de ces bidonvilles sont des paysans ruinés et que si aucune mesure n'est prise ce chiffre pourra monter à 60 % dans les prochaines années.
Au moment où ces mesures de libre concurrence ont été mises en oeuvre des petits producteurs par exemple de café, en Afrique, ont été brutalement confrontés à la concurrence brésilienne, comme rappelé par le Suisse Ziegler, rapporteur pour les Nations Unies pour les questions d'alimentation, auteur de l'ouvrage l'Empire de la Honte .
Les importations et la distribution du café sont par exemple tenus par d'immenses trust comme la société Suisse Nestlé, que Ziegler nomme " la pieuvre de Vevey ". Il rappelle qu'il avait eu un jour un discussion avec un de ses responsables, en lui signalant que cet écroulement des prix du café, dû à la concurrence brésilienne, avait acculé à la ruine nombre de petits producteurs africains. Ce à quoi son interlocuteur lui avait répondu :
- Eh bien, si le café n'est plus rentable chez eux, ils n'ont qu'à cultiver autre chose (....)
La mondialisation entraîne la ruine et la paupérisation de nombre " d'oubliés de la croissance ", de gens " incapables de s'adapter ", de victimes des délocalisations, de la férocité de la concurrence. Aujourd'hui l'impact sur les ressources en nourriture se signale par des émeutes de la faim. En fait la carence en nourriture sur la planète ne datent pas d'hier.
Mais, comme le note Mazoyer, la nouveauté est que les affamés sont maintenant dans les bidonvilles et non plus dans les campagnes ou les régions en voie de désertification.
- Avant, dit-il, quand des paysans mourraient de faim dans des coins perdus, personne ne s'en souciait. Mais aujourd'hui la famine touche les bidonvilles en entraîne des manifestations de masse.
Cette famine était, dit-il, totalement prévisible. Les stocks de céréales étaient simplement en constante diminution depuis une vingtaine d'années (...). L'offre n'était alors plus en état de répondre à la demande, en manifestant une certaine élasticité. Quand les stocks atteignent une valeur minimale seuil, le marché devient " rigide " et sa réponse est la flambée des prix.
A cet épuisement des stocks il faut adjoindre l'accroissement de la demande, liée aux agrocarburants et aux importations de pays non producteurs. Mais tout ceci n'est que le déclencheur. De manière systématique il faudrait accroître, dit Mazoyer, la production de céréales de 33 % pour résoudre ce problème de la faim.
On découvre alors dans son discours que l'aide alimentaire ne représente qu'un pour cent de ce volume.
Ainsi cette aide est symbolique plus qu'autre chose. Elle ne résoudra jamais les problèmes.
C'est comme si à la suite d'un tremblement de terre ( Pékin vient d'en subir un, ce jour, 12 mais 2008, de magnitude 7,8 ) vous décidiez d'envoyer des ambulances en ne décidant de ne sauver qu'une victime sur cent.
La solution, dit Mazoyer " est d'assurer une protection des petits producteurs ". Qui dit protection dit protectionnisme, introduction de barrières douannières, de taxes sur des importations de produits étrangers, pour protéger les exportateurs locaux ou simplement les producteurs aux fins de consommation intérieure, dans le pays. Or c'est diamétralement opposé au credo de l'OMC.
L'OMC se veut structure de négociation entre états, qui peuvent alors porter sur des quota. Mais ces discussions concernent les entités à grande échelle, les vastes machineries économiques, à l'échelle brésilienne chinoise, européenne. Il n'y a personne pour défendre le petit producteur de céréales.
Mazoyer :
- Des terres cultivables, il en existe et point n'est besoin pour en trouver de dévaster la forêt amazonienne. Mais les représentants de l'agrobuisness ne s'intéressent pas aux terres ingrates, pauvres, mal situées, mal irriguées, que ne pourra cultiver que le petit paysan, alors incapable d'assurer un prix à la production compétitif. Si on ne protège pas systématiquement ces petits paysans qui sont ruinés les uns après les autres, ils viendront grossir les bidonvilles.
En un mot Mazoyer indique que la solution n'est pas de fournir de la nourriture à ces gens des bidonvilles mais de leur permettre de retourner vers leurs terres en faisant en sorte que ces exploitations leur assurent non seulement un revenu qui leur permettre de survivre, mais aussi d'investir en devenant capables d'acheter des animaux de trait, des charrues, des engrais. Il faut pour ce paysans pauvre que ses revenus soient suffisamment assurés pour qu'il puisse investir dans ces achats. Et, techniquement, cela ne peut se faire qu'en réintroduisant des mesures protectionnistes concernant l'agro-alimentaire, au détriment des profits des barons de l'Agrobuisness.
Dans le monde actuel, qui devient chaque jour un peu plus délirant, non seulement le fonctionnement du marché écrase totalement les petits producteurs, mais il leur ajoute de nouvelles taxes avec ... les OGM. Le petit producteur n'est ainsi même plus propriétaire des semences qu'il récolte. Il lui est interdit par la loi de les réutiliser.
Les Héraults de cette mondialisation et ardents défenseurs des OGM, comme notre ex-french doctor Koutchner diront que la solution de faim dans le monde passe par ces OGM, " qui accroîtraient la rentabilité des entreprises agricoles ". Ainsi la solution consisterait à faire produire massivement de la nourriture par des grandes entreprises spécialisées, travaillant sur de vastes échelles. Mais comme le note Mazoyer, ces entreprises ne travaillent pour des clients riches, solvables. L'aide alimentaire ( pourcentage ridicule déjà mentionné ) est incapable de palier ce problème.
Dans certaines régions pauvres les paysans se tournent vers des récoltes plus rentable : la drogue. Comment s'en étonner, dans un monde qui compte résoudre ses problèmes en équipant les policiers de tasers, en multipliant les camps de concentrations, voir un jour en éliminant de vastes populations de manière discrète, par le biais
d'armes météorologiques ou bactériologiques."
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In the world, 462 million school-aged children and teenagers live in countries affected by wars or other natural disasters and around 75 million need an educational support. #EmergencyLessons shows – and celebrates – this, with lessons from children living through crises around the world. Tuesday 6th December in Brussels children, teachers and volunteers all around the world came for a meeting at the Parliament.
When emergencies hit – from natural disasters, such as earthquakes or flooding, to civil conflicts, and to health crises, such as the Ebola outbreak – children’s education can be disrupted and, is often, abandoned.
Education and school give children a sense of normality. During and after emergencies, it is as critical as food and medicine, it gives ability to not only survive, but thrive.
Students all around the world came at the European Parliament to share their stories about school in emergency situations.
The #EmergencyLessons event was supported by Christos Stylianides, Commissioner - Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management, Linda McAVAN, MEP and UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth. The project is a partnership between the European Commission’s department for humanitarian aid and civil protection and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Education is fundamental for children to express their full potential and build a prosperous future for themselves and society. It is even more important during emergencies when children are often direct witnesses of atrocities and tragedies. Today, around 37 million children are out of school in crisis-affected countries.
The EU and UNICEF work together to provide children with a place where they can feel safe and continue their education at all times.
The #EmergencyLessons communication campaign tells the stories of Yaroslav and Nastya who, like many other girls and boys, have experienced war and disaster but were able to carry on their studies thanks to the assistance from the EU and UNICEF.
#EmergencyLessons is supported by European sport and TV celebrities and youth influencers: British actor Tom Hiddleston; Italian European Space Agency astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti; Slovenian basketball player Boštjan Nachbar; and Hungarian news presenter and media personality Kriszta D. Tóth.
Read more: www.emergencylessons.eu/
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BENGHAZI LIBIA-06-03- 2011-rebeldes concentrados na praca central de benghazi s eprotegem de fumaca causado por bomba O ditador da Libia , O ditador Muammar Gaddafi que esta no poder a mais de 40 anos sofre com uma crise no pais. (Foto: Joel Silva/ Folhapress,****MUNDO***
ReACT Sofia, organized by EP Information Office in Bulgaria: Darin Madzharov - one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in Bulgaria (funded through JEREMIE), founder of ucha.se
More information: www.europarl.bg/reactsofia
Quality of life: from safe food to data protection
What does quality of life mean for you? Safe food? Accessible medical care? Breathable air and clean environment? Strong consumers’ rights? Or knowing that your data and privacy are safe? European Parliament holds improving of the quality of life in the EU high on its agenda. Read more here and follow 4th ReACT conference on quality of life on 23 January in Rome live!
In the past few years, European parliament worked on wide range of rules to improve the quality of life in Europe: ensuring safe and accessible medicines and medical treatments, strengthening passenger rights, enabling consumers to buy clearly and correctly labelled food, cutting CO2 emissions and preventing other environmental pollution, but also making sure that privacy of European citizens is protected and their data safe. Read more in our Top Story.
Three of those topics: environment, health and food and the “European way” to protect them are to be debated during fourth ReACT conference “Cutting Quality of life: past, present and future” that takes place on 23 January in Rome. Chef Carlo Cracco, climatologist Riccardo Valentini and Professor Michele Mirabella present their points of view and debate them with the audience. Conference is moderated by geologist Mario Tozzi. Follow live and comment #Reactroma via links on the right.
ReAct Roma is the fourth in a series of five interactive conferences on subjects vital to the EU, ahead of the European elections in May 2014. They take place in different European cities where opinion leaders will share their ideas about today's issues. Previous events were dedicated to jobs and employment (15/10 Paris), EU in world (14/11 Warszawa), EU and finances (5/12 Frankfurt). The fifth event will be about EU and economy and will take place on 20/2 in Madrid.
Streaming ReACT Rome, 23 January 19:00
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ReACT Rome: web site in IT
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A business building, possibly with apartments on the upper floors, in the Southside section of Belize City, near the Swing Bridge. Brodie's, a large complex of stores, is at far right, with another entrance down Regent Street at the left. I bought a bottle of water there.
Belize was a British colony as British Honduras. It became self-governing in 1964, and achieved full independence in 1981. English is the official language. Nonetheless, people drive on the right. I heard some people speaking another language, which was not Spanish. It may have been Krol, a Creole dialect.
CNBB, Ministério da Justiça, Ministério Público Federal e Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros assinaram Conclamação Dirigida ao Povo Brasileiro. Evento aconteceu em Brasília (DF).
Ousmane Badiane
Director for Africa, IFPRI
POLICY ROUNDTABLE
Regional Policy Dialogue on Early Warning Early Action Mechanisms for the Prevention of Food Crises
SEP 5, 2019 - 10:30 AM TO 01:00 PM GMT
IFPRI is participating in a regional dialogue, which will take place as an invitation-only event during the African Green Revolution Forum 2019 (AGRF) on September 5, 2019 in Accra, Ghana.
The AGRF brings together key stakeholders involved in African agriculture to discuss and commit to programs, investments, and policies designed to achieve inclusive and sustainable agricultural transformation in the continent.
With this year’s thematic focus on “Leveraging Digital Transformation to Drive Sustainable Food Systems in Africa,” the AGRF 2019 provides a highly suitable venue for this regional dialogue, which will contribute to recommendations for addressing the most pressing needs/challenges in analyzing and predicting food crises and the development of FSP tools, including the Excessive Food Price Variability tool, the Early Warning Hub, and other policy analysis tools.
Some key questions to be addressed at the FSP regional policy dialogue include:
Is there a need to improve the current early warning, early action (EWEA) systems to prevent and address food crises? Would it be feasible and desirable to invest in real-time monitoring instruments that make use of new digital technology, including satellite images and AI to identify food crisis risk factors?
How are existing EWEA systems currently used in food crisis-affected countries? Are they serving to provide timely and adequate responses?
Is there a need to tailor the international EWEA systems to country needs? If so how and what should donors and international organizations do? How could the Food Security Portal support such efforts?
Opening Session
David Nabarro, Strategic Director, Skills, Systems and Synergies for Sustainable Development (moderator)
Setting the Stage
Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI
The Food Security Portal and Early Warning System hub for Food Crisis Prevention
Rob Vos, Coordinator for Food Security Portal and Director of Markets, Trade and Institutions, IFPRI
Global Network Against Food Crises and the Need for Improved Early Warning Early Action Systems
Roberto Schiliro, Head of Section, on behalf of Ambassador Diana Acconcia, of the European Union, Ghana
Panel Discussion: Relevance of and ways to Improve Early Warning Systems?
Gerardine Mukeshimana, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources of Rwanda
Mahalmoudou Hamadoun, Coordinator for the Regional Food Security and Nutrition’s of CILSS
Sheryl Hendriks, Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension, and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner, Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union
Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergencies and Rehabilitation and Strategic Programme Leader for Resilience at FAO
Gordon Conway, Professor of International Development, Imperial College London
Roundtable Discussion
Closing Remarks
In the world, 462 million school-aged children and teenagers live in countries affected by wars or other natural disasters and around 75 million need an educational support. #EmergencyLessons shows – and celebrates – this, with lessons from children living through crises around the world. Tuesday 6th December in Brussels children, teachers and volunteers all around the world came for a meeting at the Parliament.
When emergencies hit – from natural disasters, such as earthquakes or flooding, to civil conflicts, and to health crises, such as the Ebola outbreak – children’s education can be disrupted and, is often, abandoned.
Education and school give children a sense of normality. During and after emergencies, it is as critical as food and medicine, it gives ability to not only survive, but thrive.
Students all around the world came at the European Parliament to share their stories about school in emergency situations.
The #EmergencyLessons event was supported by Christos Stylianides, Commissioner - Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management, Linda McAVAN, MEP and UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth. The project is a partnership between the European Commission’s department for humanitarian aid and civil protection and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Education is fundamental for children to express their full potential and build a prosperous future for themselves and society. It is even more important during emergencies when children are often direct witnesses of atrocities and tragedies. Today, around 37 million children are out of school in crisis-affected countries.
The EU and UNICEF work together to provide children with a place where they can feel safe and continue their education at all times.
The #EmergencyLessons communication campaign tells the stories of Yaroslav and Nastya who, like many other girls and boys, have experienced war and disaster but were able to carry on their studies thanks to the assistance from the EU and UNICEF.
#EmergencyLessons is supported by European sport and TV celebrities and youth influencers: British actor Tom Hiddleston; Italian European Space Agency astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti; Slovenian basketball player Boštjan Nachbar; and Hungarian news presenter and media personality Kriszta D. Tóth.
Read more: www.emergencylessons.eu/
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Zeynaddin village, Babak region, Nakhchivan. Yagut Ahmadova’s one of favorite painting - a portrait of a pandemic doctor.
Yagut Ahmedova from Nakhchivan AR, Azerbaijan took up exercising her painting skills and talent after 25 years of a break. She is one the beneficiaries of the EU-supported project “Economic response to rural women impacted by COVID 19 in Nakchivan AR”, which is part of a broader programme “Promoting the Role of Civil Society in Gender-sensitive Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals” funded by the EU, co-funded and implemented by the UNDP.
The project aims at minimizing the economic damage, supporting rural women (including women with disabilities) in obtaining income during COVID – 19 crises and begin looking towards a post coronavirus phase.
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Un programa que se despide...
Lástima, porque era un gran programa de radio.
Un saludo Edu, y buena suerte.
Sugerencia musical, lógicamente, la sinto del programa:
The house is Rockin' - The Brian Setzer Orchestra
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Dessin et rotring,feuille d'or,une première interprétation avec une (ACTION AU PORTEUR de 1905 ) que m'a généreusement envoyé ANNE, j'ai trouvé des timbres de la "semeuse" de 1908 ,1909 et 1911 .
On 15-16 November 2017, IIED and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) hosted an international conference on how to respond to humanitarian crises in urban areas.
The high-profile event brought together more than 100 participants from government, humanitarian agencies, urban researchers and practitioners.
More details: www.iied.org/urban-crises-conference-time-put-learning-pr...
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Num dia de Abril, uma mulher ofereceu cravos aos soldados nas ruas de Lisboa e esta flor tornou-se um símbolo de liberdade. Mais tarde, a entrada na UE e o euro prometiam dias melhores mas, uns anos mais tarde, a crise trouxe o peso da palavra Austeridade, tornando o Futuro numa incógnita que, no dia 2 de Março, levou centenas de milhar às mesmas ruas, com a ansiedade e receio de um Amanhã mais sombrio nos semblantes.
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On a day of April, carnations were offered to rebel soldiers in the streets of Lisbon by a woman and this flower became a symbol of freedom. Later on entry into the EU and the euro promised better days but years later the crisis shown the weight of the word Austerity, making the future an unknown that on March 2 brought hundreds of thousands to the same streets, with anxiety and fear of Tomorrow in their faces.
Bakery Carlos
Opens its doors on weekends
(Friday and Saturday)
Until midnight
For a service of à la carte dinners
with or without booking
And every weekly day
(notice required)
Daily menu service - Daily menu service - Daily menu service
Banking crises tend to follow periods of financial excess. Can financial variables serve as early warning indicators to inform monetary policy and financial regulation? In this paper we define an empirically-based approach to measure financial cycles and study their leading indicator properties using Early Warning System models and regressions. We find that financial variables’ predictive power is on par or better than that of real sector variables. Equity prices in particular offer the best signal, followed by property prices. By contrast, credit, though widely seen as a strong crisis predictor, does not offer the clearest signals. Aggregating financial cycle information in an overheating index tends to improve prediction in real time and underscores the need to look at a wide range of indicators.
New York - 21 September 2022
Calling on all men to act now to drive action on gender equality, world leaders gather to accelerate progress at UN Women’s HeForShe Summit:
Against a global backdrop of receding rights for women and girls, as well as collective crises like climate change, conflict, and natural disasters, the HeForShe Summit gathered political, business, global development and social justice leaders to review progress on gender equality across countries, companies and communities. While UN Women recently reported that, at the current rate of progress, it may take close to 300 years to achieve full gender equality, the HeForShe Summit urged men to do their part in accelerating equality in whatever capacity they can.
"With the engaged allyship of men and boys, we are powerfully united in addressing inequality," said Sima Bahous, UN Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director, UN Women. "I see this strength in all the leaders at the HeForShe Summit, who are acting as inspiring agents of change in their fields."
At the Summit, HeForShe Alliance members shared best practices in advancing gender equality through targeted and ambitious commitments in areas such as equal representation in the workplace, economic empowerment, or global policies addressing domestic violence. World leaders gathered to speak on the importance of achieving equality, including Ms. Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, who said "I would like to live in a world where there are no differences between people. I would like to live in a world where the HeForShe initiative is not necessary."
UN Women and HeForShe also announced new members of the HeForShe Alliance and their ambitious commitments to accelerate progress towards gender equality. H.E. Mr. Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan, and H.E. Mr. Felix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, committed their governments to enabling gender equal policies. Bolstering HeForShe partnerships in East Asia, Recruit Holdings was announced as the latest HeForShe Champion with a focus on achieving parity in their global organization by 2025.
Leaders from public, private and academic sectors discussed the issues facing women today during the event. Anita Bhatia, UN Women Deputy Executive Director, led a discussion on the compounding effects of crisis on gender with leaders from MTN Group, PwC, and the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness. The second discussion, led by Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General and CEO of the United Nations Global Compact with executive leadership from UN Women, INSEAD, and HCL Technologies, reinforced the substantial difficulties women face in advancing economically and highlighted key actions to reduce these barriers, particularly as today around 2.4 billion women of working age are not afforded equal economic opportunity. One such recommendation is to ensure sponsorship, not just mentorship, throughout a woman's academic and professional experience.
Closing the event, author and activist Frederick Joseph called on men and boys around the world to embrace the role they play in recognizing gender equality through everyday actions. Actress, activist, and singer Sofia Carson closed the Summit with an inspirational musical performance and took a moment to reiterate the unanimous call that brought these leaders together—men must have an active role in achieving a more equal world.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Criança leva recipiente com água coletada da caixa d'água comunitária e leva andando até sua casa em manoel Marque na rodovia Transacreana (Foto: Alexandre Cruz Noronha/Amazônia Real)
On 15-16 November 2017, IIED and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) hosted an international conference on how to respond to humanitarian crises in urban areas.
Here David Dodman, director of IIED's Human Settlements research group, speaks at the closing session. The conference ended with a strong message that it was time to get out into the field and engage with affected populations and also work to influence policy at all levels.
The conference was entitled 'From cities in crisis to crises in cities: towards a collaborative urban humanitarian response. ’ It was the culmination of a three-year project funded by the UK's Department of International Development (DFID), and enabled researchers and practitioners from around the globe to share the latest evidence and experiences about taking effective action when crises hit urban areas.
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