New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD): Towards Agriculture and Environment Nexus
NEPAD is a home-grown approach to tackling Africa’s many development challenges. It represents the vision and collective determination of African leaders to place their respective countries on the path of self-reliant sustainable development.
The Farmers' Life School Manual is a joint publication of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), FAO and World Education. The Farmers’ Life School course can be used either in community-based programmes or adapted for formal educational settings.
This article provides an outline of a recent paper whose focus was on cooperation between FAO's Sustainable Development Department and civil society organizations (CSOs).
This article is taken from the FAO document "The role of trade unions, rural workers' organizations, agricultural producers' and farmers' associations, cooperatives, and development/advocacy organizations in contributing to the World Food Summit and its follow-up". It argues that all these organizations have a major stake and role to play in achieving food security and in cooperating with FAO, gov... more
