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Youth Leaders of the Global Food Revolution Attend Dag Hammerskjold Farmers Market
A youthful, yet purposeful air filled the site of the weekly Wednesday Greenmarket between 1st and 2nd Ave at 47th St. Perhaps it was the Teen Iron Chefs from Urban Assembly HS in Brooklyn, or the young famers and entrepreneurs of the Youth Farmers Market and Learn It Grow It Eat It Programs (both run [...]
Continue reading...Young People Demonstrate Power and Concern at Several Events
13. May 2009
World Youth Speak up at the UN’s 17th Commission on Sustainable Development, an International Symposium to Address Global Crises, and New York City Showcases Vibrant Local Markets to Youth from Around the Globe May 4-15, 2009 Young People Demonstrate Power and Concern at Several Events New York, NY Now, as the converging food, finance, energy and climate crises push [...]
Continue reading...Urban/Rural Linkages Showcase Tours - Saturday, May 9th
1. May 2009
Following a successful pair of tours at CSD 16, the New York City Host Committee, in conjunction with WHY (World Hunger Year), is putting on a City/Farm Linkages Showcase during this year’s CSD 17. On Saturday, May 9th, we will host two tours which will share with international delegates and civil society some of New [...]
Continue reading...Event Calendar
30. April 2009
Event Calendar The New York City Host Committee to CSD-17 is pleased to present a listing of selected side events, presentations, City-Farm Showcase events both in- and outside CSD for delegates and representatives and a youth farmers market that includes the general public. Click here for a printable listing of Select Events
Continue reading...Public Food and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
27. April 2009
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
27. April 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...UN Dialogue on the Right to Food This Monday April 6th
4. April 2009
Farmers, community groups, researchers, government and UN partners gather to address the Global Food Crisis and the Right to Food. UN General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann hosts Interactive Thematic Dialogue to “address policy choices and provide answers to the poor.” While there is consensus to take decisive action, the way forward to establish a new [...]
Continue reading...New Report: A Recipe for Hunger
4. April 2009
The International Trade Union Confederation has just released a new report about the global food crisis. ITUC works closely with The Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC), an organizing partner for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. The report, A Recipe for Hunger: How the World is Failing on Food, explores the truly stark situation facing [...]
Continue reading...Women farmers at the center of agriculture and rural development
21. February 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
21. February 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...- Youth Leaders of the Global Food Revolution Attend Dag Hammerskjold Farmers Market
- Young People Demonstrate Power and Concern at Several Events
- Urban/Rural Linkages Showcase Tours - Saturday, May 9th
- Event Calendar
- Public Food and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
- CSD-17 Policy Session set to take on global food crisis and more
- UN Dialogue on the Right to Food This Monday April 6th
- New Report: A Recipe for Hunger
- Women farmers at the center of agriculture and rural development
- Major Groups to “Highlight the Way Forward” at UN CSD session
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