• Communicating development through Spore
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• Second Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples
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• FAO's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean fortifies links with NGOs and CSOs
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• FoodSPAN holds official launching
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• ECOSOC's High-level segment to focus on integrated approaches to rural development
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• FAO's Committee on World Food Security 29th session
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• IRAQ: UN Agencies and NGOs step up humanitarian assistance while UN resolution calls for the termination of the Oil-for-Food Programme
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• Cuba hosts II Forum on HIV/AIDS/STD of Latin America and the Caribbean
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• Meetings on access to land issues
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• Trade and Sustainable Development, main issues discussed in Pan-African Congress
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• NGOs and CSOs form coalition to launch campaign against hunger
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• Ecuador: Coordinating Board on Food Security and Rural Development supports Human Rural Development workshop
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• Madagascar: Common Country Assessment Process resumes activities (CCA/UNDAF)
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• Niger: FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS: Impact of HIV/AIDS on food security in Niger
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• Senegal: Review of thematic group performances and its main donors
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• Uruguay: Thematic Group presents results of the Caraguatá Pilot Project
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• World Environment Day 2003: Water - Two Billion People are Dying for It!
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“The International Alliance Against Hunger is a force that recognizes the good work that has been done up to now. This good work however, can be further energized by an initiative like the Alliance aimed at enhancing political will and commitment.”
– Eva Clayton.
Ms. Eva Clayton, a Congresswoman of the United States from 1993 to 2003, has been recently appointed Special Advisor to the Director General of FAO on the World Food Summit Follow-up. In this interview Ms. Clayton, who is also entrusted with the promotion and monitoring of the International Alliance Against Hunger (IAAH) at both global and national levels, gives an insight on the potential of the alliance and its next steps.
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“Asian decision makers who deal with small-scale production in the agriculture and rural sector are awakening to a regional call to take up a pro-active leadership role in support of small farmers as rural small scale entrepreneurs at regional level.”
– Wim Polman.
In this interview Wim Polman, Rural Development Officer of the FAO's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, gives us an overview of the situation of agricultural cooperatives in the Asian-Pacific region and comments on the future events being organized to promote the development of small rural enterprises in this region.
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• Three volumes on good practices in development projects
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• Masters of their own development: PRSPs and the prospects for the poor
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• FAO-WHO Launch Report on Diet and Health
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• IFPRI publishes collection of studies on food, agriculture, and pro-poor growth in the Middle East and North Africa
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• "LEADER, from Initiative to Method": Guide to teaching the LEADER approach
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