• The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) list the main challenges for better national Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs).
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• United Nations Common-Supply Database (UNCSD) provides a source for a study on the effectiveness of multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD).
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• Global Partnership for Cassava Genetic Improvement.
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• FAO Council - 28 October - 2 November 2002: The discussion continues on the establishment of the International Alliance Against Hunger.
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• Ecuador: the FAO will take charge of the organization of the Coordinating Board of Food Security and Rural Development.
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• Laos: The Thematic Group asks the government for a series of seminars to explain the national policies and priorities within the sphere of rural development.
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• Nicaragua: The Thematic Group studies the information and monitoring systems of food security in the country.
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• Perú: The Thematic Group studies the implications of the law that will facilitate exportation of Andean products to the USA.
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• The FAO and UNESCO are making a joint call for Education for rural people.
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• Ghana: civil society will discuss its participation in the formulation of national food security policies with representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture.
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• December 1st: 2002 World AIDS Day will focus on taking stigma and discrimination out of AIDS.
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• December 3: International day of Persons with Disabilities.
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• December 10: Human Rights Day.
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• 2003: International Year of Freshwater.
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“The FAO and civil society must act creatively so that national governments take our work into account in political decision making concerning food insecurity.”
Interview with Mr. Antonio Onorati who has co-ordinated the efforts of the International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for the International Forum for Food Sovereignty held during the World Food Summit of June 2002.
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“Access to land, because of political difficulties or resistance by powerful vested interests, really requires new ways of collaboration between international development organisations, UN agencies, international financial institutions, donor agencies, governments and people themselves: civil society.”
Interview with Mr. Bruce H. Moore, Coordinator of the Popular Coalition to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty.
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• ProPoor Info Tech Centre launches a web Site on Non-Governmental Organizations across South Asia.
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• The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and FAO launch a publication on Success Case Replication.
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• The state of food and agriculture: SOFA-2002.
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• Twenty-four donors exchange analytical information on different countries through a Website.
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• The Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2002.
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• "Nutrition: A Foundation for Development" United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN).
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