This page contains the archive of all SARD-related news items published for the year 2003, with the most recent at the top. Useful links are given at the end of each item and documentary resources are listed in the right sidebar.

August 2003

2nd Session of FAO/COFI Sub-committee on Aquaculture, 7-11 August 2003, Trondheim, Norway. This session considered a number of topics arising out of recommendations made at the previous session. Among these, specific attention was paid to the issue of responsible practices in culture-based fisheries was treated in a background document (COFI:AQ/II/2003/7).

April 2003

SARD Initiative Stakeholder Design Consultation at COAG 17, 1 April 2003, Rome, Italy. The SARD Initiative Stakeholder Design Consultation took place as a Side Event at the 17th Session of the FAO Committee on Agriculture’s (COAG) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy in April 2003. The Consultation provided an opportunity for the different stakeholders to make suggestions as to the roles that participating Civil Society Organizations, Governments, and Intergovernmental Organizations should play in the SARD Initiative as well as how the SARD Initiative can best contribute to improved livelihoods of the rural poor and disadvantaged groups and to the achievement of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and the Millennium Development Goals.