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It also stipulates that States parties should take appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas and ensure their rights to organize self-help groups and cooperatives in order to obtain equal access to economic opportunities

Promote the regional coordination of initiatives as well as the exchange of technologies and recovery of traditional technologies among other actions to ensure food and nutritional security through public policies that foster rural development, the

Under this arrangement, commercial banks are willing to work with

Recognizes that 80 per cent of hungry people live in rural areas and 50 per cent are small-scale farm-holders, and that these people are especially vulnerable to food insecurity, given the increasing cost of inputs and the fall in farm incomes; that access to land, water, seeds and other natural resources is an increasing challenge for poor producers; that

WFP and its partners also trained 9,700 smallholder farmers, 26 per cent of whom were women, and 58 warehouse operators in contracting, quality specifications,

In the United Republic of Tanzania, joint WFP/Alliance for a Green Revolution in

That project's main components are the

Those responses included implementing social protection programmes, instituting targeted public distribution systems, maintaining adequate stocks of

Experts also noted that in principle, sovereign wealth funds could also be mobilized to support agricultural production in developing countries through providing access to

The existing models of housing are: social housing – finalized construction, construction by means of partial self-support, construction by self-support, free of charge construction materials, micro loans for construction materials and qualified

Furthermore, nearly two thirds of women were beneficiaries of financial assistance schemes provided by the

The four response mechanisms provided for under the Marrakesh Decision are: (a) the provision of food aid at a level sufficient to continue to provide assistance in meeting the food needs of developing countries; (b) the provision of technical and financial assistance to least-developed and net

It was encouraged by Chile’s readiness to guarantee access to education for all children, especially those from

Redistributive agrarian reforms should: (a) include comprehensive rural development policies that follow the recommendations resulting from the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for

It includes the rights of vulnerable and discriminated groups to have access to

Also calls upon States to place a high priority on strengthening and implementing legal and policy measures that promote the full enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights, particularly those aimed at eliminating discrimination against women, promoting gender equality, empowering women and promoting their autonomy, including with regard to land, property, marriage and divorce, child custody and inheritance, and to promote equal access to literacy, education,

At its sixty-third session, the General Assembly decided to devote one plenary meeting at its sixty-fifth session to consideration of the

Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food products included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and plant health, including promotion of risk analyses and developing base-level capacity to ensure national ability to monitor, diagnose, report and respond to pest and disease outbreaks; (b) the standard setting work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the International Plant Protection Convention; (c) the establishment of a Food Chain Crisis Management Framework for prevention, early warning, preparedness and response to food chain crises caused by transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases, food safety threats and emergencies, as well as nuclear and radiological threats and emergencies;

These matters include the questions whether: (a) the grantor has to be the same person as the borrower; (b) the security agreement secures all the relevant obligations; (c) the security right is subject to any legal

UNESCO advocated for stronger evidence-based planning and management in the area of education and for improved quality through piloting innovative inclusive and child-friendly educational approaches and developing effective education

The Ministers in order to promote the human rights of women expressed their resolve to take appropriate measures at the national, regional and international levels to improve the quality of life and achieve gender equality and empowerment of women, bearing in mind the inherent potential of women, through inter alia adopting proper socio- economic strategies and programmes and provisions of government services to