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 October 2002

    

Previous Updates

News          

  • The Network distributes its case studies throughout the world
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  • Ethiopia launches a website on food security with the support of the European Commission
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  • The African Development Bank finances a United Nations project to confront AIDS in four African countries
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  • The concept of "stakeholder" and conflict management
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  • Promoting Ingenious Agriculture Heritage Systems: a new inter-agency and civil society initiative
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  • FAO and UNESCO propose a joint partnership to promote education in the rural world
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  • Arab World: The World Economic Forum releases report on Arab World competitiveness
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  • The United Nations launch a proposal to establish a world solidarity fund for poverty eradication
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  • The United Nations and NGOs explore ways of rebuilding societies emerging from conflict
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  • European Forum on Rural Development Cooperation
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Thematic Groups          

  • Uruguay: The Thematic Group structures its activities in a Program for Rural Development and Food Security
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Events          

  • Electronic forum to improve the participation of ACP countries in negotiations on agriculture in the WTO
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  • World Food Day 2002 - Water: source of Food Security
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  • International Decade and Day for the Eradication of Poverty
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Interviews

    International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Mountain Regions, Adelboden, 2002.

  • “To make up for the disadvantages for agriculture in mountain regions, a maximum utilization of synergies with and between other economic and social spheres is essential.” – Mr. Hans-Jörg Lehmann.
    Interview with Mr. Hans-Jörg Lehmann from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, and one of the main organizers of the International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Mountain Regions, Adelboden, 2002.
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  • People Shaping their Sustainable Futures - the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Initiative
    Basic Information about the SARD Initiative
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  • WSSD: 10 Statements on Sustainable Development
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Publications          

  • "The building of sustainable development": seven sheets on the concept of sustainable development.
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  • An agenda for people. The UNFPA through three decades.
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  • FIVIMS launches a new web site highlighting timely country focused data
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