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In 2010 an inclusive Civil Society Mechanism was launched for the Intergovernmental Committee on World Food Security (CFS). The CFS itself was established, as a result of the food crisis of the 1970s upon recommendation from the 1974 World Food Conference, to serve as a forum for member States in the United Nations System for review and follow-up of policies concerning world food security. In 2009 CFS members agreed on a wide-ranging reform. During this process Member States recognized the right of Civil Society Organizations to “autonomously establish a global mechanism for food security and nutrition which will function as a facilitating body for CSO/NGOs consultation and participation in the CFS” <ref>CFS: 2009/2 Rev.2, para. 16, http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/cfs/Docs0910/ReformDoc/CFS 2009CFS_2009_2_Rev_2_E_K7197.pdf</ref>. The CSM is reaching out to hundreds of CSOs in all continents<ref>http://www.csm4cfs.org/</ref>.