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News
- UN General Assembly adopts important resolutions on the right to development and on Human rights and extreme poverty
- Outcomes from FAO’s Committees on Agriculture and World Food Security
- Overview of World Food Day celebrations in 2004
Thematic Groups
- Angola: UN agencies launch new Working Group on Food Security and Nutrition
- Guatemala: Thematic Group issues second Newsletter
- Turkey: Thematic Group restructured to meet MDGs
- Uruguay: Thematic Group grows and prepares to work with other partners
- Zambia: Donor Group meets to discuss IFAD project and the situation of food reserves
Events
- 5 June: World Environment Day
- 2 July: 111th UN International Day of Cooperatives, "Microfinance is OUR business! Cooperating out of poverty"
- 12 August: International Youth Day, World Programme of Action for Youth + 10 and Making Commitments Matter
Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD)
- Civil Society and SARD at the center of a side event during FAO’s COAG
- First Meeting of the SARD-M Regional Focal Points: Launching of activities in the regions
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Interviews
"Secure access to land is recognized by all to be a cross-cutting requirement for alleviating hunger (...) and for achieving environmental sustainability, combating desertification and preventing resource conflicts."
In this interview Mr. Bruce Moore, Coordinator of the International Land Coalition (ILC) shares with the Network the recent outcomes of the Global Assembly of the ILC held in Bolivia in March 2005 and talks about ways in which the ILC is contribuiting to the achievement of Millennium Development Goal #1 of eradicating poverty and hunger.
"One of the most important goals that the campaign has achieved is the definition of criteria. We’ve worked for two years and finally decided on the characteristics of what we think should be more and better aid."
In this interview, Ms. Mercy Karanja, Development Policy Coordinator for the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) and member of the More and Better Aid International Campaign, shares her views on the milestones reached by the campaign, the outcomes of their most recent meeting and ways More and Better and the International Alliance can work together at national level.
Publications
- Discussion session on the Commission for Africa Report by UN Habitat’s Executive Director at FAO
- Evaluation and Monitoring of Poverty Reduction Strategies: a SIDA experience
- Multilingual Land Tenure Thesaurus
Calendar
Calendar of international events (international days and UN/NGO/civil society meetings)
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