• Hunger Task Force report launched in Rome
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• WFP: Joint Collaborations with Rome-based agencies essential to achieving the Millennium Development Goals
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• World Social Forum held in Brazil
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• A coordinated approach to emergencies: the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot
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• Recommendations of the final report of the auto-evaluation of the UN System Network approved by FAO Senior Management
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• Burkina Faso: Thematic Group in action
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• Dominican Republic: Thematic Group sets activities for 2005
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• El Salvador: Rural Development Committee defines strategic plan
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• Ethiopia: Donor Group on Rural Economic Development and Food Security to represent the Thematic Group
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• Guatemala: GIISAN coordinates and improves information on food security and nutrition in Guatemala
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• Laos: Thematic Group creates two new working groups
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• Mexico: Thematic Group holds second meeting
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• 1 March: Launch of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
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• 8 March: International Women’s Day
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• 2005-2015: International Decade for Action "Water for Life"
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• Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development on the Agenda of the FAO Committee on Agriculture
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• SARD in Mountain Regions: A multi-stakeholder partnership starts activities in the field
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"UN agencies must work together to fight hunger."

In this interview Dr. Pedro Sánchez, Director of Tropical Agriculture at the Earth Institute of the Columbia University and Co-chair of the Task force on Hunger of the UN Millennium Project, shares with the UN System Network the way forward after the launch of the Hunger Task Force report. From Kenya he also talks about the work being done in a "Millennium Village" where the report's recommendations are being translated into concrete actions to fight hunger.
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In this interview Mr. Jacques Godfrain, President of the FAO French Association and former French cooperation minister, and Mr. Alain Pierret, President of the Interministerial Committee for Food and Agriculture, both acting as Co-presidents of the National French Alliance "Alliés contre la faim", talk about the recent creation of the Alliance and its activities during the Salon International Internationale de l'Agriculture in Paris in March 2005.
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• A new communication tool for the International Alliance Against Hunger
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• UN agencies unite efforts in humanitarian early warning website
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• UNEP/IISD publication presents framework on poverty and ecosystems
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• A knowledge network on trade and sustainable development
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