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External sources (not reviewed)

Given the different climatic and soil

The Conference urged member countries and

a) To define “pesticide” and other related terms in a way consistent with Codex; b) To provide a list of maximum residue limits (MRLs) and extraneous maximum residue limits (EMRLs), to adopt MRLs/EMRLs recommended by Codex as the backbone as well as the Codex’s classification of foods; c) To prohibit the import and sale of the concerned food for which no MRL/EMRL had been specified, unless DFEH was satisfied that the detected level would not be dangerous or prejudicial to health; d) To provide a list of exempted substances; e) To accept applications for adding / revising MRLs and exempted substances; f) To

The strategic direction of the subprogramme is imbedded in the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, the Doha Outcome Document on Financing for Development, the outcome of the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, the outcome of the forthcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, in 2011, and Commission resolutions 62/1, 63/4, and 64/6 on achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the ESCAP region, 64/7 on financing for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 in the ESCAP region, 65/1 on implementation of the Bali Outcome Document in addressing the food, fuel and financial crises, and

However, other actions could also be taken to strengthen the phase-out achieved, such as the adoption of environment-friendly production practices, new incentives to

When the lease payments cannot be allocated reliably between the land and building

In these areas of retreat, FARC-EP and ELN

In this vein, speakers stressed that increasing productivity in the agriculture sector had to be a top priority, but that, for it to be effective, complementary efforts needed to be simultaneously implemented. These included providing necessary physical and communications infrastructure; strengthening absorptive capacity of the farming sector for technological improvement, especially in providing the necessary support

The following reports of working groups were made available at intersessional meetings of the Commission: (a) the report of the meeting of the working group on supply reduction, held in Vienna from 23 to 25 June 2008 (UNODC/CND/2008/WG.1/3); (b) the report of the meeting of the working group on countering money-laundering and promoting judicial cooperation, held in Vienna on 30 June and 1 July 2008 (UNODC/CND/2008/WG.2/3); (c) the report of the meeting of the working group on

Delegates agreed that various successful agricultural practices – including restoration of

These systems of sale and exchange are an important mechanism by which

(a) Applications of Earth observation for sustainable development in areas such as human security and welfare, human health and its relation to environmental change;

Examples were given of national, bilateral, regional and international programmes to further socio-economic and sustainable development, notably in the following areas: agriculture

Though seed analysis diagnoses past problems, it can help

The primary sources of information on drug trafficking were the replies submitted by Governments to part III (Illicit supply of drugs) of the annual reports questionnaire for 2009 and previous years, and

Although the recent decrease in oil prices has, to some extent, eased macroeconomic and fiscal pressure in most West African countries, the broader, global nature of the crisis has

It includes: savings in fertilizer use made possible through the use of nuclear techniques to more effectively determine optimal application and timing; higher

WFP and FAO jointly carried out crop and food supply assessment missions in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,

Thailand had played a leading role in the establishment of the ASEAN Food Security Information System; while