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The Cordoba Declaration on the Right to Food
We recieved news of the Declaration from the folks at FIAN International: Launched on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal declaration of Human Rights, this Declaration presents a number of issues and recommendations that should be given attention in further work dealing with chronic hunger and the aggravation of the food crisis, as [...]
Continue reading...Politics of Food: Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann’s Speech
24. November 2008
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...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...Food Crisis Response: Act Now and Sign On Before Thanksgiving.
16. November 2008
A compelling call to action from the US Working Group on the Food Crisis: We do not view the food crisis as an unexpected, sudden emergency of the last year, but as the inevitable consequence of the development of a long list of misguided agricultural and food policies over the last 30 years. We believe that we [...]
Continue reading...Civil Society Speaks Out on Desertification
16. November 2008
We, the participating Civil Society Organizations wish to express our concern at the slow progress in the fight against desertification and drought. For this reason civil society expects that the Ten-Year Strategic Framework and Plan (PED) will address the ineffectiveness of the Convention in dealing with land degradation and improving the living conditions of affected communities, especially for those who are [...]
Continue reading...CSD 17 Call to Action
10. November 2008
An excerpt from the call to action from Gerda Verburg, Chairperson of CSD-17: “Within just one year, the world has been shaken by an unprecedented spike in the costs of basic foods, by hunger riots and by social tensions that have demonstrated that food insecurity is an irrefutable reality. Estimates suggest that the total number of malnourished people [...]
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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.
12. December 2008
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