• The fight against AIDS in the rural world
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• Brazil: New stage for the Thematic Group on Food Security and Rural Development
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• Guinea-Bissau: The Thematic Group to identify on-site the needs of the farmers
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• Guinea-Bissau: periodical bulletins reporting the activities of the Thematic Group
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• Haiti: reactivates its Forum for Sustainable Rural Development and Food Security
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• Peru: Thematic Group as platform for the formulation of national policies for rural development.
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• 2002, International year of the Mountains: an important event for the Network
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• High-level International and Inter-governmental Meeting on the Financing of Development. Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March 2002
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• African Youth Summit. Lagos, Nigeria, 2-5 April 2002
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• International Scientific Simposium on Measurement and Assessment of Food Deprivation and Undernutrition. FAO, Rome, Italy, 26-28 June 2002
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• Towards the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD). Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August - 4 September 2002
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"Thematic Groups can serve an important role in turning their countries into guardians of biological diversity."

Read the interview with José T. Esquinas-Alcázar, Secretary of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
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• "Systems of agricultural production and poverty: To improve life in a changing world"
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• "Does Quanxi Matter to Nonfarm Employment?"
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• World Food Summit and the Network
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• Sri Lanka: The preparation continues for the World Food Summit: five years later
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