Archive | November, 2008
Politics of Food: Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann’s Speech
This is official text of the speech delivered by Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of the United Nations General Assembly, at last week’s Politics of Food Conference. Dear brothers and sisters. I thank you for inviting me to join you today and I am pleased to return to Columbia University where I attended the graduate school of [...]
Continue reading...CSD: Major Group Priorities for Action Online
24. November 2008
From Federica Pietracci at the UN: Please be informed that the advance unedited text of the Major Groups Priorities for Action on agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification, and Africa is available on the Internet. These would be used as the major groups’ contribution to the Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting (IPM) in February and CSD-17 in May, and [...]
Continue reading...Politics of Food: Mapping Partnerships
19. November 2008
We’ll be posting more content from today’s Politics of Food conference over the next couple days. Below, here’s a highlight– the slides from Thomas Forster’s presentation about regional partnerships. The slides are a glimpse of an ongoing effort to map food policy organizations and shared interests in the New York region. Mapping Partnerships View SlideShare presentation or [...]
Continue reading...2009: New York and CSD 17
17. November 2008
Learning first hand about New York’s food and farming system was a unique educational experience for visiting government officials and civil society groups from around the world last year at the United Nations. International Partners for Sustainable Agriculture and a wide range of New York partners are preparing to greet them again in February and May [...]
Continue reading...Politics of Food Nov 19th: President of UN General Assembly to Speak
17. November 2008
H.E. Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, M.M, the President of the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, will be speaking at The Politics of Food: New York’s Next Policy Challenge this Wednesday at Columbia University.
Continue reading...Pastoralism and Climate Change
16. November 2008
Pastoralism and Climate Change: Rethinking the links between livelihoods and land.
Continue reading...Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
16. November 2008
Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A often neglected challenge and a potential opportunity for urban-rural collaboration.
Continue reading...Taking a Stand for Nutrition: the UN’s SCN.
16. November 2008
The United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) is a UN organization with a cross-cutting mandate to battle malnutrition. To promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner organ.izations in support of community, national, regional, and international efforts to end malnutrition in all of its forms in this generation. The SCN held an event last month in Rome [...]
Continue reading...Farm to School Programs: New Markets in Healthier Food for Students
16. November 2008
Farm to School Programs: New Markets in Healthier Food for Students.
Continue reading...International Livestock Research Institute
16. November 2008
International Livestock Research Institute: Better Lives through Livestock.
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Pastoralism and Climate Change: Rethinking the links between livelihoods and land.
Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A often neglected challenge and a potential opportunity for urban-rural collaboration.
Farm to School Programs: New Markets in Healthier Food for Students.
International Livestock Research Institute: Better Lives through Livestock.
The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP) was formed to conduct a comprehensive, fact-based and balanced examination of key aspects of the farm animal industry.
Local Governments Stand Up and Take Action for the Millennium Development Goals.
24. November 2008
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