• Bateau Boboto: How NGOs and international organizations have succeeded in re-establishing a humanitarian corridor along the Congo River
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• Bernard Conyers prizes information on rural development
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• The FAO brings together representatives of the governmental, non-governmental and private sectors to prepare a list of forest crimes
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• ICT TASK FORCE: a joint effort of civil society, the private sector and the United Nations to overcome the digital divide between the rich and the poor
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• FAO and WHO call together more than 300 experts to exchange experiences on how to establish safety in food
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• African NGOs decide to form a network to improve communication with the United Nations
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• BM and FMI invite a joint review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)
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• The FAO calls for groups of the Network to support the Strategies for National Agricultural Development Horizon 2010 at all levels
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• Porto Alegre points to Food Sovereignty as one of its principal themes of debate
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• Monterrey puts in evidence the need for a consensus from governments of rich and poor countries, the civil society and donors to give a push to development
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• Brasil: an inter-agency meeting on human rights emphasizes the right to food for all people
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• Indonesia: FAO to coordinate donors' assistance to the country's agricultural policies
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• Niger: The Thematic Group to revise the National Programme on Food Security
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• Peru: The Thematic Group debates agro-productive chains
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• African Youth Summit.
  Lagos, Nigeria, 2-5 April 2002
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• International Symposium on the Measurement and Analysis of Food Deprivation and Undernutrition.
  Rome, 26 - 28 June 2002
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• 20^th Session of the International Rice Commission (IRC).
  Bangkok, 23-25 July 2002
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• 2002, International year of the mountains: an important event for the Network
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• Towards the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD).
  Johannesburg, 26 August - 4 September
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"It is of utmost importance that each participant of the thematic group feel in some way the ownership of the group."

Interview with Norman Bellino,
representative of the FAO in Peru
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"To establish a legal framework that confronts hunger in Nicaragua, we need a concerted force from the Parliament and civil society."

Interview with Dora Zeledón,
Nicaraguan deputy
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• "Land reform-colonization and co-operatives 2001/1"
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• "Inter-agency Experiences and Lessons from the Operationalizing Participatory Ways of Applying Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches"
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• "Distance education and distance learning - A framework for the FAO"
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• African NGOs and CSOs adopt the Cairo declaration on food security. The Bamako Declaration was also approved by more than 200 African social movements.
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• The NGOs worldwide prepare for the Forum on Food Sovereignty, an event parallel to the World Food Summit:fyl
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• Africa prepares the World Food Summit: five years later
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• Director-General of the FAO, Jacques Diouf, warns the Near East against increasing dependency on food imports while more than 35 NGOs recommend priorities for the region
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• Members of the Network support the preparation of Ecuador for the next World Food Summit
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• Turkey: The thematic group of the network debates the position of Turkish NGOs in the World Food Summit
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