APN led the International Civil Society Mechanism in an open meeting on food security in protracted crises, which was held on the 31st of October at the office of Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. The meeting was attended by representatives of countries as well as representatives of international organizations and the private sector.

APN was represented by the head of the Policy Program and APN manager Mariam Al Jaajaa who prepared and coordinated civil society interventions that focused on the content of the draft Agenda for Action (A4A) to be approved by the Committee on World Food Security on food and nutrition insecurity in conflict and natural crises.  She stressed that "resilience" should not  be used as the overarching framework in the A4A because as it is defined currently in the document, it does not include actions to prevent crises, absorb their causal factors, and stop them from deepening or reoccurring.  She highlighted the recommendations of the High level Expert Forum on Protracted crises which stress on the importance of understanding root causes of crises to tailor responses” and the need for “conflict analysis and political economy assessments to complement food security analysis.”

The civil society interventions stressed that the A4A should not only guide countries undergoing crisis but should call on all countries to respect extra-territorial obligations that have huge affects on food security in other countries.