Food Security Workshops
The Food Security Workshops took place between 2010 and 2012 in all regions of Ecuador in order to discuss with civilians and local representatives the proposals of civil society for the development of additional legislation on food security issues in the country. These workshops were organized by the Plurinational and Intercultural Conference on Food Sovereignty (Span. COPISA). About 190 meetings were held in all administrative regions of Ecuador, of which a total of approximately 15600 people participated. Among the topics discussed at these meetings were issues of: land and territory, fishing, seeds and biodiversity, ancestral territories, food safety, agricultural development, credits and subsidies, and nutritional security. These workshops promoted new modes of democratic participation among the inhabitants of the regions involved as they were involved in the process of elaborating on and making decisions with regards to Ecuador?s national food security policy.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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