On the 8th of April Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, UNDP and FAO co-organized a seminar on global food security and nutrition in the post-2015 agenda.
On 5 April, the UN and partners worldwide will observe the 1,000-day mark to the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are the most successful global anti-poverty push in history. Governments, international organizations and civil society groups around the world have helped to cut in half the world’s extreme poverty rate. More girls are in school.
Desertification in the Sahel - an untruthful story?
Desertification in the Sahel - an untruthful story?
SIANI aims to build a network to facilitate communication throughout the sustainable food and nutrition security sector. By the end of the first phase (2008-2012), SIANI had more than 780 members.
A report named "Environmental pressures from European consumption and production" has been made by the European Environmental Agency where they describes methods for quantifying environmental pressures caused by European consumption patterns and economic production sector
Today, on the International Day of Forests, Focali and SIANI publish the brief “Forests and trees – essential for food security on a landscape level”.
The annual conference on Agricultural Research for Development will be held at SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala between the 25-26th of September 2013. This years topic will be "Agricultural Research for Sustainable Development Goals"
Between 17 and 19 January 2013 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture was held in Berlin. A key topic discussed during this forum was how to make sustainable investments in agriculture.