Public Food and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
PUBLIC FOOD AND THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOOD has a crucial role in advancing the sustainable development agenda. Food production and consumption affect our individual and communal health, the integrity of our eco-systems, our quality of life. Hence, political intervention on the various stages of the food chain means addressing multiple forms of deprivation. Throughout the [...]
Continue reading...CSD-17 Policy Session set to take on global food crisis and more
Monday, April 27, 2009
The UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) policy session kicks off its seventeenth session on Monday May 4 for two weeks, ending on May 15. It will address Agriculture, Rural Development, Land, Drought, Desertification and Africa. Ministerial Roundtables in the second week will address critical areas including: - Responding to the Food Crisis through Sustainable Development - Realizing [...]
Continue reading...Women farmers at the center of agriculture and rural development
Saturday, February 21, 2009
As part of the “Highlighting the Way Forward” series of side events at the Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development meeting in New York next week, the need to invest in and support women farmers will be one of the key messages to policymakers. This side event is convened by Women [...]
Continue reading...Major Groups to “Highlight the Way Forward” at UN CSD session
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Civil society groups from around the world will arrive in New York Sunday, February 22 to meet with governments and representatives of UN agencies to highlight solutions on issues ranging from agriculture and rural development, land, drought and desertification, with special attention to Africa. Heifer International, Food and Water Watch, Women Organizing for Change in [...]
Continue reading...Taking on climate, energy, food and economic crises at CSD
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Major Groups from around the world will zero in on debates central to food and agriculture as delegates gather in New York next week. Here’s a preview of the policy messages and websites of the organizing groups: HIGHLIGHTING THE WAY FORWARD Enabling Policies for Development and Sustainability from the IAASTD (International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science & Technology [...]
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