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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
Monday, November 24, 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...2009: New York and CSD 17
Monday, November 17, 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
Monday, November 17, 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.
Sunday, November 16, 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...Local Governments Stand Up and Take Action for the Millennium Development Goals.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Local Governments Stand Up and Take Action for the Millennium Development Goals.
Continue reading...CSD Major Group Guidelines
Sunday, November 16, 2008
CSD 17 Major Group Guidelines Now Available.
Continue reading...Land Coalition CSD 16 issues paper
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Land and Vulnerable People CSD 16 issues paper from the International Land Coalition.
Continue reading...Civil Society Speaks Out on Desertification
Sunday, November 16, 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...How the Commission on Sustainable Development Works
Thursday, November 13, 2008
This article provides a quick sketch of how the United Nations’ Commission on Sustainable Development works. CSD Origins: A Legacy of the Earth Summit The Commission on Sustainable Development - also known as CSD - was created in December 1992 to ensure effective follow-up of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED - also [...]
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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.
Monday, November 24, 2008
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