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Background documents
FIAN & ITDG (September 2005) Food Sovereignty: towards democracy in localized food systems
Grain (Seedling, May 2005) Food Sovereignty: turning the global food system upside down
Devinder Sharma (June 2004) My Vision for a Global Agriculture
Devinder Sharma (2005) The Business of hunger
Action Aid (2005) Power Hungry - Six reasons to regulate global food corporations
Useful Links
GLOBAL
farming
solutions
A joint web-site to promote sustainable farming solutions
by Oxfam, Greenpeace, ILEIA, PAN
Green perspectives: IAASTD reports from the Pesticide Action Network
Eldis
Gateway to Development Information
knowledge-base for online documents and organisation contacts
Right
to food
Web site of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the
Right to Food, Jean Ziegler
Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
United
Nations Millenium Project homepage
Task
Force Reports of the Millenium Project
Halving
Hunger by 2015 it can be done, summary version of Project report
Development
Goals, targets and Indicators a conceptual framework and a database
InterAcademy Council
report to Kofi Annan (June 2004)
Realizing
the promise and potential of African agriculture: Science and technology strategies
for improving agricultural productivity and
food security in Africa
FAO (May 2004)
State
of Food and Agriculture 2003-2004, special report: Agricultural Biotechnology
Meeting the needs of the poor?
FAO (Nov 2004)
10th
regular session of the Commission on genetic resources for food and agriculture
(CGRFA)
CGRFA-10/04/13
Progress in the Draft Code of Conduct on Biotechnology as it relates to genetic
resources for food and agriculture: policy issues, gaps and duplications
FAO Biotechnology Forum (online discussions on selected topics on biotech in developing countries)
UNITED NATIONS Economic and Social Council,
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler,
in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/25*, 9
February 2004
The right to
food
Robert Watson, Michael Crawford and Sara Farley,
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3026, April 2003
STRATEGIC
APPROACHES TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT
UNEP / Consumers International (September 2004)
Tracking
progress: Sustainable consumption policies
A global review of implementation of the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer
Protection
REGIONAL
Europe / North America
UK Agricultural Biodiversity Coalition
UK
Government's Department for International Development (DFID): New Directions
for Agriculture in reducing poverty
Draft new agricultural development policy open for public
consultation until September 2005
OECD: Agriculture and the Environment: Lessons Learned from a Decade of OECD Work, 1993 - 2003
European initiative on international agricultural research for development
CTA - Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU
Europe
Aid Co-operation Office Annual Work Programme 2005 for Grants EuropeAid Food
Aid and Food Security
"As indicated in the EC-CGIAR strategy document, the
EC resources for 2005 will be allocated to a limited number of CGIAR programmes
with high food security incidence, in the fields of Genetic Resources, and International
Policies, including issues related to water management and a limited contribution
to the new IAASTD initiative launched by a number of co-sponsors (FAO, UNDP,
UNEP, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank)."
"Preparing
for the Future"
Scenarios regarding the future use of GMOs in agriculture,
report prepared by the USDA Advisory Committee On Biotechnology and 21st Century
Agriculture (May 2005)
Africa
GRAIN
briefing - USAID: Making the world hungry for GM crops
This briefing examines how the US government uses USAID to actively promote
GM agriculture. The focus is on USAID's major programmes for agricultural biotechnology
and the regions where these programmes are most active in parts of Africa and
Asia[1]. These USAID programmes are part of a multi-pronged strategy to advance
US interests with GM crops. Increasingly the US government uses multilateral
and bilateral free trade agreements and high-level diplomatic pressure to push
countries towards the adoption of many key bits of corporate-friendly regulations
related to GM crops. And this external pressure has been effectively complimented
by lobbying and funding from national and regional USAID biotech networks.
Asia / Pacific
Livestock
Research for Rural Development
The international journal for research into sustainable developing world agriculture
Central and Western Asia and North Africa
Subsaharan Africa
All Africa agricultural overview
Latin America
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