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FAO's focus on mountains
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FAO is meeting the challenges of sustainable mountain development in many ways around the world. Across its technical departments, FAO is addressing the needs of mountain people and mountain environments through its normative work, field programme, direct country support and contribution to global partnerships.
This focus on mountains is an integral part of FAO’s responsibility as the UN specialized agency devoted to raising levels of nutrition, improving agriculture productivity and alleviating poverty and hunger around the world. It also supports the role FAO has been playing as Task Manager of Chapter 13 of UNCED Agenda 21, the blueprint for sustainable mountain development that arose out of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
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