They sat patiently. Thousands of delegates who poured in for the inaugural plenary on “Land, Water and Food Sovereignty” on Jan 17, waited for the star cast to emerge on the stage. In the next four days, food security emerged as one of the hot topics of the WSF. Food activist Devinder Sharma writes: "I was amazed to see that in each and every of the 14 sessions that I chaired or spoke at, the halls were overflowing. At the same time, what was more significant was that the audience was not the same that moved from one session to another. Even if I had continued delivering the same speech session after session, I would have found enough takers for my analysis. It is heartening to find the social movements and the civil society realizing the importance of the growing threat to food sovereignty as the main cause to rally around."