Perfil de los miembros
Cecilia Díaz-Méndez
Organización:
University of Oviedo
País:
España
Campo(s) de especialización:
I am working on:
Food system and governance
Cecilia Díaz-Méndez
1. How can FAO and CSOs work together to regain the momentum lost and work jointly to "leave no one behind”?
Failed and successful cases should be analyzed to enhance successful actions and expand accurate strategies. This analysis should look for the factors that block relations between FAO and CSOs and experts could be consulted on how to break these blockages.
2. How can CSOs contribute to such transformation and intensify the effects on the ground? Please suggest concrete actions.
A mediator may be needed to facilitate the task. The data from the Eurobarometer say that scientists are the main source of reliability that European citizens consider when they face a global problem. Scientific institutions (research groups, specialized scientific teams from universities, and research centers) can be that link that facilitates relationships. In each of the topics, there are experts who carry out scientific research analyzing specific problems and specific cases. They offer reliable information supported by evidence. They are the key to increasing trust and supporting FAO's actions. In these scientific teams, whatever their type, social scientists should not be missing, as they are experts in the relationships between agents and analyze the keys to governance and power. Concrete action: create groups of scientists to act as mediators in FAO-CSO relations depending on the profile of the CSO in question and in relation to the topic that we want to discuss with these CSOs.