Fuad Abu Saif is the General Manager of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC). With extensive experience in environmental agriculture and as a social and human rights activist, Fouad has been instrumental in numerous social development initiatives aimed at combating poverty and supporting marginalized communities in Palestine. He is a dedicated advocate for sustainable agriculture, food sovereignty, and the rights of farmers. Under his leadership, UAWC has expanded its reach and impact, helping thousands of Palestinian farmers to improve their productivity and resilience in the face of ongoing challenges. Fuad is also actively involved in international coalitions and management boards, working towards global solidarity and justice.

Educator and agroecologist by profession. In recent years, she has been involved in activism and work for food sovereignty and agroecology through training and research.

At a more local level, she is involved in REDINAM, the Baladre Coordination and Ecologistas en Acción. At a more global level, she is vice-president and in charge of advocacy for the URGENCI Network (International Network for Community Supported Agriculture). From there, she collaborates in different spaces such as the publication of the Right to Food and Nutrition Observatory.

In the last 4 years she has coordinated the Civil Society group for the Voluntary Guidelines for Food Systems and Nutrition within the Committee on World Food Security. In this space, she is also part of the working group for the Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment.

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I am 64 years old and retired from the French education system, where I was a teacher in structures and facilities for children and adolescents with learning difficulties or behavioural problems.

For the last 5 years, I have been a member and volunteer administrator of the collective MIRAMAP: Mouvement Inter-régional des AMAP (association for the preservation of peasant agriculture). I live in Haut de France and have been an AMPAien for 15 years. I have been involved in the work of the national collective for social food security, representing Miramap since 2021.

Director of the Espigoladors Foundation, which fights for a better food usage while empowering people at risk of social exclusion from a transformative, participative, inclusive and sustainable way. We are a non-profit organisation which acts upon three social challenges: developing a replicable and transferable model able to impact food waste reduction, enhancing access to an adequate diet and generating new opportunities for people at risk of social exclusion.