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On May 9, 2012, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) adopted a landmark document laying out principles and internationally accepted standards on land governance and tenure security - the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT). Members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land (GDWGL) actively supported both technically and financially the inception of the VGGT and their formulation. Since that time, the global land tenure community, including the CFS, has worked to put the VGGT into practice.
The Global Donor Working Group on Land (GDWGL), a network of 24 bilateral and multilateral donors and international organizations committed to improving land governance worldwide, praises the work and achievements to date by a large range of stakeholders all over the world to promote, disseminate and implement the VGGT. Now, four years after the adoption of the VGGT, we applaud the CFS' initiative to organize a stock taking event during CFS 43 aimed at sharing and discussing inspiring actions undertaken so far in the application of the VGGT.
