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Alliance Participants Betty Williams Ireland Bio: Betty Williams is a Northern Irish peace activist. She was awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her campaign against violence between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti ©FAO/Alessandra Mairead Maguire Ireland Bio: Mairead Maguire is a Northern Irish peace activist. She was awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her campaign against violence between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. ©Inter Press Service Press ©Inter Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Argentina Bio: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine human rights activist. He was awarded the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to fight the military junta that was ruling Argentina. ©Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador/Romina Icaza Ecuador/Romina del Nacional ©Asamblea Oscar Arias Sánchez Costa Rica Bio: Oscar Arias Sánchez is a former president of Costa Rica. He was awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year. ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti ©FAO/Alessandra Frederik Willem de Klerk South Africa Bio: Frederik Willem de Klerk is a former president of South Africa. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa. ©Foreign and Commonwealth Office /Flickr Office Commonwealth and ©Foreign Graça Machel South Africa Bio: Graça Machel is a former First Lady of South Africa and a human rights activist for women’s and children’s rights. She is the widow of Nelson Mandela, freedom icon and a former president of South Africa, who was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime. © World Economic Forum/ Zahur Ramji/Mediapix Zahur Forum/ Economic World © José Ramos-Horta East Timor Bio: José Ramos-Horta is a former president of East Timor. He was awarded the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor. © Chatham House Muhammad Yunus Bangladesh Bio: Muhammad Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, especially women, through their pioneering microcredit work. ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti ©FAO/Alessandra Tawakkol Karman Yemen Bio: Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle for the safety of women and their rights to full participation in peace-building work in Yemen, and became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising. ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti ©FAO/Alessandra Leymah Gbowee Liberia Bio: Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist and women’s right advocate. She was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle for the safety and rights of women in peacebuilding and is a founding member of the Women in Peacebuilding Network/West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WIPNET/WANEP). © FatoPress/Luiz Munhoz FatoPress/Luiz © Juan Manuel Santos Colombia Bio: Juan Manuel Santos is a former president of Colombia. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people. ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti ©FAO/Alessandra ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti ©FAO/Alessandra Why this Alliance? The FAO-Nobel Peace Laureates Alliance for Food of the areas the Alliance has made an impact. With Security and Peace was estabslished by the FAO strong political commitment, and deepened technical Director-General in May 2016 to work jointly with FAO understanding, it is possible to address food insecurity, to build a virtuous relationship, where food security reducing the potential for conflict and instability. supports peacebuilding, and peacebuilding reinforces food security. The Alliance is an advocacy group of The overall goal of the Alliance is to contribute to Nobel Peace Laureates that aims at amplifying FAO’s creating the necessary political will to eradicate hunger contribution to conflict prevention and to giving visibility within our generation and to build sustainable peace. at the work of the Organization in post-conflict countries With the support of FAO Members, the Alliance will in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable raise awareness and champion global and country-level Development. activities promoting the links between food security The Nobel Peace Laureates have led extraordinary and peacebuilding, as well as highlight FAO’s technical efforts that have contributed to a wide range of leadership in agricultural and food security policies and areas. Sustainable development, reduction of poverty, actions that promote peace, rural development and international cooperation and peace are only some food security. “Where food security can be a force for stability, we have to look to food and agriculture as pathways to peace and security. This is a great challenge, but one that we can meet together as we embark on achieving the 2030 Development Agenda.” José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General How has FAO been advocating the impact of the Alliance? FAO hosted the first ever meeting of the Alliance upon International Conference on African Development its establishment on May 11th 2016. Since then, the FAO (TICAD-VI), FAO formulated and raised key messages. Director-General has attended several events presenting FAO has identified the following key messages that and promoting the Alliance. During the 2016 FAO should be promoted to create global political will in Regional Conference for the Near East and North Africa, support of strengthening peace through increased food the World Humanitarian Summit 2016, and the Sixth Toky security. Country project FAO HAS IDENTIFIED TWO COUNTRY PROJECTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING IMPLEMENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE ALLIANCE AND THEIR RESPECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC With the financial support of the Italian Government, the first Government to support the Alliance, FAO is implementing a project to reinforce agricultural production on 150 hectares of land in Bimbo (5 km from the capital Bangui). The land is owned by the Holy See and hosts 3 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs). This inter-religious project will work with Catholics and Muslims to reinforce social cohesion and provide employment opportunities for IDPs and ex-combatants. Gangale ©FAO/Riccardo COLOMBIA FAO is responsible for supporting the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Reform for the realization of peace in the country. FAO has played an important role in supporting the Government in the implementation of integrated rural development. Along with the European Union and La Via Campesina, FAO has been asked by the Government to help implement the Peace Accord 1 on Comprehensive Rural Reform. In Colombia, the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests ©Patrick Zachmann/Magnum Zachmann/Magnum ©Patrick in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) are the main tool for the implementation of Chapter 1 of the Peace Agreement. ©Patrick Zachmann/Magnum Zachmann/Magnum ©Patrick Facts and figures 42500 40% E GDP PEOPLE FLEEING PER DAY Post-conflict Agriculture Since 2000, Every day in In 2014, children countries with accounts for 48 percent of 2014, conflicts constituted high food two-thirds of civil conflicts and violence 51 percent of insecurity are 40 employment have been in forced about 42 the refugee percent more and one-third of Africa, where 500 people to population, likely to relapse gross domestic access to rural flee their homes the highest into conflict product (GDP) land underpins and seek safety percentage within a 10-year in countries in the livelihoods either internally in more than time span protracted crises. of many, and or across borders. a decade. where in 27 out Few refugees of 30 interstate (only 1 percent) conflicts land have returned, issues have less than at any played a point in the past significant role 30 years. Peace is impossible without food security, and there will be no food security without peace The 2030 Agenda highlights Most conflicts mainly affect rural Food insecurity can also be a source that there is no peace without areas and their populations. This is of conflict. Where it is, it is never the sustainable development and that particularly true for civil conflicts, one single factor behind the strife. there is no sustainable development nowadays the most common form Causal effects of the conflict and without peace. With the advent of armed conflict. Conflict has strong food-security nexus include loss of of the 2030 Agenda, FAO wants and unambiguous adverse effects assets (including land and livestock) to draw the world’s attention on food security and nutrition. It is and threats to food security (including to the role of food security and the major driver of food insecurity sudden food-price increases), but agriculture in preventing conflicts and malnutrition, both acute and in conjunction with other forms of chronic. Conflict has lasting impacts and crises, mitigating their impacts grievance and discontent. and promoting post-crisis recovery on human development as a result and healing. Ending hunger of increased malnutrition, which Building resilience through and malnutrition, addressing tends to affect children the most and peacebuilding efforts is critical for humanitarian and protracted crises, leave lifelong physical and/or mental food security and nutrition. Little disabilities and difficulties. preventing and resolving conflicts, is known about how, and to what and building peace are not separate Causal effects of the conflict and extent, improved food security could tasks, but simply different facets food-security nexus vary across prevent conflict, and build and sustain of the same challenge.
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