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Book (stand-alone)Proceedings of the Ministerial Meeting on Food Price Volatility
Fao Headquarters, Rome, 16 October 2012
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No results found.This book is a compilation of the statements delivered at the Ministerial Meeting on Food Price Volatility organized by FAO on the occasion of World Food Day 2012. The statements are collected together not only to provide a record of the Meeting, but also to stimulate further discussion and debate on the challenge of food price volatility and its devastating impacts on hunger and food insecurity. -
DocumentHigh-level ministerial session. Chapter Two of the Proceedings of the FAO International Symposium on the Role of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition 2016
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No results found.Chapter 2 present the texts of addresses by government ministers from Argentina, Canada, Hungary, Senegal, Bangladesh, Cameroon, the Netherlands, and the United States of America. The Question and Answer session is also reported. The FAO international symposium on “The role of agricultural biotechnologies in sustainable food systems and nutrition” took place from 15 to 17 February 2016 at FAO headquarters, Rome. Over 400 people attended, including 230 delegates from 75 member countries and the European Union, as well as representatives of intergovernmental organizations, private sector entities, civil society organizations, academia/research organizations and producer organizations/cooperatives. The symposium encompassed the crop, livestock, forestry and fishery sectors and was organized around three main themes: i) climate change; ii) sustainable food systems and nutrition; and iii) people, policies, institutions and communities. The proceedings provide the main highlights of th e symposium which covered a broad range of biotechnologies, from low-tech approaches such as those involving use of microbial fermentation processes, biofertilizers, biopesticides and artificial insemination, to high-tech approaches such as those involving advanced DNA-based methodologies and genetically modified organisms. Read the full reportFull report chapter by chapter:
For more information, visit the webpage http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/agribiotechs-sympo sium/en/. -
MeetingProceedings Preparatory technical meeting for the Joint FAO/WHO Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2)
FAO Headquarters Rome, Italy November 13-15, 2013
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No results found.The Preparatory Technical Meeting for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), jointly convened by FAO and WHO, was held at FAO headquarters, Rome, 13-15 November 2013. The two and a half day scientific and technical meeting was attended by 128 country delegates from 61 countries, 28 experts and resource persons, 41 representatives from United Nations (including IFPRI, IFAD, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, WFP, WTO) and UN coordinating bodies (UN Standing Committee on Nutrition, High Level Task Force on Food Security and Nutrition), international organizations and other intergovernmental organizations, and 21 representatives from civil society and the private sector.
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