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Gisele Henriques

Gisele Henriques

I am CIDSE's Policy and Advocacy Officer on Food, Agriculture and Sustainable Trade.

henriques(at)cidse.org / +32(0) 2 233 37 54


G8 New Alliance - CIDSE & EAA Recommendations

Monday, 06 May 2013 07:23

Whose Alliance? The G8 and the Emergence of a Global Corporate Regime for Agriculture, CIDSE and EAA Recommendations, May 2013 (to be available shortly in ES and FR)

Published in Food governance

We’ve had enough with agribusiness!

Wednesday, 23 January 2013 15:58

Undeterred by sub-zero temperatures, Misereor partner Hellen Yego, a Kenyan farmer, joined Misereor colleagues and me as we hit the streets of Berlin last Saturday in a public march against agribusiness.

Published in Just food

Food and climate: how my lunch relates to drought in Somalia

Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:00

This week (15-20 Oct) in Rome, CIDSE urges decision makers to support ecological food production systems to reduce emissions and increase agriculture’s resistance to climate change. Our latest publication analyses the link between food and climate in detail.

Published in Just food

What we should learn from food price spike due to U.S. drought

Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:02

The record high food prices caused by drought in the world's biggest agricultural exporter should make us re-consider our relationship with food and the unsustainable system we have conjured up around it.

Published in Food price volatility

Lack of access to land one of the structural causes of poverty

Friday, 29 June 2012 11:49

During a side-event at the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, CIDSE’s Gisele Henriques called on governments to act on land grabbing and implement the UN-endorsed Voluntary Guidelines to Land

Published in Land (land grabbing)

Fundamental changes to achieve food security

Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:33

CIDSE's Policy and Advocacy Officer Gisele Henriques talked to Vatican Radio about how to tackle food insecurity, ahead of a meeting of G20 leaders at Los Cabos in Mexico (18 and 19 June, 2012)

Published in Just food

Agriculture is the culture of Asia

Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:32

CIDSE’s Food Officer Gisele Henriques reports from the 31st session of the FAO regional conference of Asia and the Pacific in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Published in Food governance

Stop the global land grab

Monday, 14 February 2011 00:00

Land is now one of the hottest commodities in the world market. Time to stand up for small farmers dismissed as 'inefficient'.

Published in Land (land grabbing)