• The UN System Network on Rural Development and Food Security reviews some of its experiences in a publication
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• FAO and WHO call for a participative evaluation of the food standards programme
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• Communication for development: a new field for the Network thematic groups to explore
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• International experts attempt to extend the debate on ethics in a globalization context and agricultural intensification to public opinion
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• International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Mountain Regions (SARD-Mountains 2002), 16 - 20 June 2002 - Adelboden, Switzerland
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• The leaders of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) explore possible cooperation between the G8 and Africa
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• WTO public symposium on the Doha Declaration
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• The Republic of Congo: Thematic Group focuses its activities for 2002 on agricultural rehabilitation and the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the rural world
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• Laos: the members of the TG agree on a new mandate and establish different technical sub-committees to achieve sustainable rural development and food security at the national level
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• Peru: the Thematic Group studies the potential of agroproduction chains to increase profitability of some agricultural products
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• Uruguay: The Thematic Group promotes a concerted action in one of the poorest areas of the country
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• World Environment Day: "Give Earth a Chance", 5 June 2002
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• World Food Day 2002, "Water: Source of Food Security", 16 October 2002
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• World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg
  26 August - 4 September 2002
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"The Thematic Groups of the Network could exercise an important lobbying function in relation to the Ministries of Finance and Interior in order to channel resources towards rural populations in the context of a growing trend towards decentralization."

Interview with Tomás Lindemann,
FAO expert, Rural Institutions Service, SDAR, FAO
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"If the groups of the Network are successful in participating actively in the formulation of political agricultural agendas, we will be close to the concept of food sovereignty that we are pursuing with such eagerness."

Interview with Andrea Ferrante,
Technical Coordinator of the Secretariat for the Forum of NGOs/CSOs on Food Sovereignty
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• "FAO in Europe - Assisting the Rural Sector"
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• "Protecting Small Farmers and the Rural Poor in the Context of Globalization"
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• Regional conferences of the FAO unanimously ask for greater commitment on the part of governments in the fight against hunger
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• Multistakeholder Dialogue: an open forum for governments and development partners to debate problems of food security
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• World Food Summit: five years later: the 183 member countries of FAO will convene in Rome to evaluate the efforts made since 1996 to reduce world hunger by half
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