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PARIS, May 24, 2011 - As a key element of the Dakar Declaration issued following the Dakar Agricole Forum, the creation of a World Organization for Agriculture (WOA) would represent a major step toward a new global governance system.

BEIJING, March 11, 2011 - The Research Center for the French-speaking world at the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs recently hosted a one-day conference in Beijing to focus on the geopolitical issues regarding global food security.

DAKAR, Senegal, February 14, 2011 - On the initiative of President Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal is organizing the second edition of the International Dakar Agricultural Forum on 18th and 19th April 2011 at the Meridien President Hotel in Dakar.

PARIS, November 9, 2010 - According to momagri(c), a think tank advocating a new vision for global agriculture, the international community is not fully taking into account the impact of monetary and currency imbalances on agricultural activities.

PARIS - While Some States Envisage a "New Approach" to Resume the Doha Round, the Theses and Figures Put Forward by Pascal Lamy were Contested at the end of the International Workshop Organized at the Sorbonne on June 4th and 5th by momagri's Head Economist Bertrand Munier, University Professor and Chief Economist at momagri, stated at the end of this workshop: "agricultural price volatility, the impact of speculation and the progress made in understanding agricultural markets, questions the WTO's liberalization strategy on agricultural markets." (Logo: Thus, the thirty economists present from the IMF, FAO, World Bank, OECD, American universities, think tanks, and different government departments, have reached a general consensus on two main points: - the international community's long sidestepping of the issue of the volatile prices of staple agricultural products, could exacerbate food insecurity, - the current economic models that guide international decisions are unable to make sense of this reality.