Food Prices - From Crisis to Stability - World Food Day 2011newsTaming food prices. Millions of people around the world live in chronic hunger. When food prices fluctuate wildly as they have in recent years, it's the poor who are hit the hardest. World Food Day 2011 calls on the global community to do what's needed to stabilize food prices.
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Lucerne World Mountain Conference: Closing and Call for ActionnewsThe Lucerne World Mountain Conference closes with a "Call for Action" to bring a conjunct strong message to Rio+20 in June 2012. Twenty years after the Rio 1992 meeting, over 100 participants joined to meet in Lucerne, Switzerland to make a compelling case for mountains in international development discussions. A...
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FAO-OECD Expert Meeting on Greening the Economy with AgriculturenewsThe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is collaborating with partners to analyze existing information and develop possible scenarios for Greening the Economy with Agriculture (GEA), including an evaluation of sustainability progress and gaps in the food supply chain to project food supply and demand towards 2050....
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Call for Proposals: Review of and strategy development for communications and social learning in climate changenewsThe Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), together with the Earth Science Partnership, has launched a call for proposals for a review of and strategy development for climate change communications and social learning in climate change. The objective of this...
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Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas Conference - 16-18 April 2012, in Stuttgart, Germany – abstracts by 1 November 2011newsA conference on Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas will take place from 16 to 18 April 2012 at the Hohenheim University in Stuttgart, Germany. The themes will include soil care, land use and land cover change in mountain landscapes, sustainable and competitive livestock systems, supplying, using,...
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FAO Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study – new reports on linenewsThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has finalised the second Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study. The new publications include "Asia-Pacific Forests and Forestry to 2020", covering major aspects of forestry development across the Asia-Pacific region and "Forest policies, legislation and institutions in Asia and the Pacific. Trends and emerging needs...
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