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The Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security includes four strategic objectives: (a) to fully realize the targets of Millennium Development Goal 1 and the 1996 World Food Summit goal;21 (b) to work within the Global Partnership for Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition and fully implement the reform of the Committee on World Food Security; (c) to reverse the decline in domestic and international funding for agriculture, food security and rural development in developing countries, and promote new investment to increase sustainable agricultural production and productivity, reduce poverty and work towards achieving food security and access to food for all; and (d) to proactively face the challenges posed by climate change to food security and to

Education staff are responsible for specific regions and countries and now link directly to UIS regional advisers in field offices with the

The desk study undertaken considered in general terms: a historical overview of MB phase-out in Africa and the progress made to date; the main MB consuming sectors in the region – tobacco seedlings, cut flowers, horticulture (particularly tomatoes, but also melons, strawberries, bananas and a variety of vegetables) and postharvest treatment of grains; the types of

It welcomed the plans of the International Council: (a) establish a base set of hazard and exposure information adequate for conducting safety assessments of all chemicals in commerce; (b) improve global capacity to implement best assessment practices and management procedures, especially in

While some WTO members had underlined the positive aspects of private standards on quality and access to high quality markets, many other members had expressed the following concerns: the application of private standards at the import stage resulted in de facto barriers to trade, and created difficulties especially for developing countries; complying with these standards required multiple

Thus, the objectives set for the agricultural sector had to do with the continuation of the reforms, creation of a modern legislative and institutional framework based on market economy principles, increase of competitiveness of the agricultural

The objective of the verification was to: crosscheck

12.58 During the biennium 2012-2013, projected extrabudgetary resources of $2,148,000 will provide, inter alia, for the following technical cooperation activities: (a) contributing effectively to the efforts of developing countries to formulate strategies and policies to respond to the challenges and opportunities of commodity markets; (b) providing advisory services and holding training/capacity-building workshops; (c) assisting

To achieve the strategic goals set by the Committee, there must be significant improvements in the capacity of many

Reliable and affordable infrastructure services are essential for efficient operation of existing productive assets and enterprises in least

The Observer from the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) recalled that OIV was an intergovernmental organization of a scientific and technical nature with recognized expertise in the field of vines, wine and wine-based beverages, table grapes and raisins and other vine-based products and that the cooperation between OIV and Codex had produced positive results in several areas of Codex

The policy in the field of agriculture supports the rural development through efficiency and competitiveness growth in the agricultural

It was especially important to address the issue of trade in primary commodities of interest to the Caribbean

For example, as the Monitoring Team of the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee has observed, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb has raised a considerable amount of money from kidnappings for ransom and

The Asia-Pacific Technology Information Tracking and Unified Data Extraction (APTITUDE) search engine, designed by the Centre to support the www.technology4sme.net website to search three databases in 2008, was upgraded and programmed to search 12 public domain technology databases from the Asia-Pacific region, to enable the online

To increase the ability of women to contribute significantly to improved food security, FTF

The main impacts of the current multilateral trade regime on the right to food include: (a) increased dependency on international trade which may lead to loss of export revenues when the prices of

Nevertheless, we consider that there is considerable potential for tensions to arise between the need to secure