News Archive

Since 1998, the ACC Network Website has featured news items on the establishment, progress and achievements of Thematic Groups, as well as announcing special events, new Websites, publications and papers produced by partners working in rural development and food security issues.

• World Food Summit: five years later (WFS:fyl)
• Thematic Groups around the world

• World Food Summit: five years later (WFS:fyl)
• Thematic Groups around the world
• Collecting case studies from the field
• Empowering the rural disabled
• E-conferencing for civil society in Latin America
• E-powerment for the world's rural poor
• Networking for farmers' information

• The Administrative Committee on Coordination Sub-Committee on Nutrition's 28th Session and Symposium on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS
• Thematic Groups around the world
• Publications: IFAD, WFP, UNICEF, IFAP
• Guide to Forming Farmer Groups
• Final Report of the Virtual Conference: Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda

• ECOSOC Special Session
• Thematic Group in Turkey
• United Nations Statement on Food Security in Pakistan
• Food Security in Viet Nam
• Thematic Group in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Electronic Conference on "Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda"

• "A Millennium Free from Hunger"
• Ensuring civil society participation in the Horn of Africa initiative

• Reaching the unreached
• Closing the Information Gap in Central and Eastern Europe (Agroweb)

• Thematic Groups around the world
• Sharing knowledge for rural development and food security
• WMO celebrates its 50th anniversary
• Websites: Emnergencies, Gender
• Publications: Children, Rural Energy, Statistics

• Parnerships with civil society strengthened
• UNEP assesses the global environment crisis
• World Bank provides guidance to stem rising poverty
• UN partners together fight HIV/AIDS
• Multi-functions of agriculture explored

• UN collaboration in Viet Nam is enhanced
• Traditional crops of the Andes
• Food security in Nicaragua
• Farmer field schools in Cambodia
• A new European network builds partnerships for food security
• The Internet in Africa
• UNESCO helps build alliances for science in the 21st century

June 1999

• Reforming the agricultural sector in Yemen
• Special Programme for Food Security
• World Bank e-discussions for development
• Youth against hunger
• WHO issues new directions for health in the 21st century

• Multi-donor food security mission to Ethiopia
• Food security in India
• Making women farmers count too, International Women's Day at FAO HQ
• The ACC Network and RASAD forge links

• E-discussion: Knowledge and information for development
• Follow-up to the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN) in Jamaica
• World on the brink of eradicating polio
• Population, poverty and environment

• FIVIMS and the World Bank: map shows the food supply gap between rich and poor countries
• Thematic Group in Trinidad and Tobago
• Inter-Parliamentary Conference

• Workshop - United Nations Inter-Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equality

• FIVIMS in Cambodia
• Integrated rural development project in Turkey
• Global Forum on Sustainable Food and Nutritional Security
• El Nino effects in Zambia
• Progress report and future activities

• Small farmer group associations
• Workshop on the development dimensions of the HIV epidemic
• Children, youth and AIDS
• Socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS
• Population, poverty and environment

• Committee on World Food Security reviews WFS follow-up
• Food insecurity and vulnerability information and mapping system
• Gender equality, mainstreaming in the work of the UN system

• Strategies for sustainable management of natural resources, Tonle Sap Region, Cambodia
• Natural resource and environmental management in Yemen
• UNDP/FAO collaboration on food security and sustainable livelihoods Promoting UN collaboration in the Philippines
• Transferring agricultural and rural development projects to clients in Latin America
• Rehabilitating roads and bridges in Angola
• Financial crises: causes and indicators
• Unfolding African Renaissance
• Tokyo Declaration on 'Eco-Society' at local level

• Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information Mapping System (FIVIMS)
• Global Mechanism to combat desertification
• International Year of the Ocean International Conference on World Water Resources
• Water resources management
• Global Teenager On-line Forum
• Organic farming's contribution to sustainable agriculture
• Legislation for sustainable development in Jordan

• Committee on World Food Security
• Knowledge Network on Civil Society Initiatives in Land Reform and Tenurial Security
• UNDP's collaborative efforts with civil society
• People's Summit "Beyond Growth: Consumption and well-being"

April 1998

• "Year of Food Security" in Venezuela
• Announcing the ACC Network's "Theme of the Month"
• Encouraging the participation of civil society in the Network
• Guidelines for Thematic Groups
• Help desks: a support mechanism for Thematic Groups
• Network e-mail listserver
• Resources