Posts Tagged ‘Food Security’
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 : How does international price volatility affect domestic economies and food security?
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
“This edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World focuses on food price volatility and high food prices, which are likely to continue in the years ahead. Indeed, the Group of Twenty (G20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors has become actively engaged in finding cost-effective ways to reduce price volatility and mitigate its effects when it does occur. By using previously unavailable data sources and studies, this report goes beyond the global-scale analyses to find out what happened on the domestic markets where poor people buy and sell their food in order to draw policy relevant lessons from the world food crisis of 2006–08.”
Tags: Food Security, Sustainable Development
Posted in Food Security, News |
FAO’s 3rd World Food Summit
Friday, July 31st, 2009
[ November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009. November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009. November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009. ]
November 2009, Rome, Italy: The FAO’s will hold it’s 3rd World Food Summit to pressure governments and institutions that a better food and agricultural system must support self-sufficiency and local needs, withstand and mitigate climate change, maintain biodiversity and sustainability, and improve women’s economic and food security. http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article1399
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Tags: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Food Security, Sustainable Development
Posted in Biodiversity, Events, Food Security, Library, News |
People’s Hearing on the Financial Crisis
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
[ June 20, 2009; ]
20 June 2009, New York, NY (1-6 pm)
WEDO invites you to join us at Peoples Voices on the Crisis, an event we’re co-sponsoring that aims to shed light on the all-too-real social and environmental impacts of the current financial, food, energy and climate change crises. The event will bring together activists from civil society organizations, trade unions and grassroots groups on a local, national and international level who will give testimony on how their lives …
Tags: Climate Change, Climate Finance, Food Security, WEDO
Posted in Events, Library |
WEDO News and Views July 2008
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
WEDO’s July 2008 newsletter, featuring an interview with Alexandra Spieldoch of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, updates on the GEAR campaign and more!
WEDO News and Views July 2008…
Tags: Climate Change, Food Security, Trade and Finance, WEDO
Posted in Library, Newsletters |
FAO LinKS Project – Gender, biodiversity and local knowledge systems for food security
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
The FAO LinKS project (Gender, biodiversity and local knowledge systems for food security) works to improve rural people’s food security and promote the sustainable management of agrobiodiversity by strengthening the capacity of institutions to use participatory approaches that recognize men and women farmer’s knowledge in their programme and policies.
Tags: Biodiversity, Case Studies, Food Security
Posted in Biodiversity, Food Security, Library |
