The General Assembly for the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) met in Brazil between the 25-28th of November to discuss its current strategy and the action plan for the coming years on the global and regional level. Mariam Al Jaajaa gave a presentation about the achievements of the Working Group on Food Insecurity in Conflict founded by APN in 2005. One of the main achievements is putting the question of food insecurity in crises in the agenda of priorities for the Committee on World Food Security which is the highest international multi-stakeholder platform on food security. Al Jaajaa stressed the importance of involving a large number of civil society organizations with the food sovereignty agenda in this group and managed to include this topic in the 4 main priorities of the IPC. In the debate on responsible agricultural investment, Al Jaajaa stressed on the necessity to boycott illegal investments, especially those in the occupied territories which threaten food, economic, and social security of indigenous peoples. She insisted on the involvement of Arab civil society which is marginalized by international organizations and western civil society