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3-Year Darfur Conflict Leads to Emergency Food Situation in Sudan

The conflict in the

Darfur region of western Sudan between the Janjaweed and the non-Baggara people began in July 2003. The estimated number of deaths in the conflict have ranged from 50 000 (WHO 2004) to 450 000 (Reeves 2006). As many as 2,5 million are thought to have been displaced. The mass media have described the conflict as both ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide.’ Below ar more...
Related links:
>UNICEF - Darfur Overview (click on + for more resources)
>UNHCR - Chad/Darfur Emergency
>International Crisis Group - Darfur Crisis Page
>"Quantifying Genocide in Darfur"
>BBC - Special Reports on Darfur
>dgFoodSecurity Emergencies Key Issue
>WFP - Country Overview
>ReliefWeb - News Source
>FAO - GIEWS Special Reports
>FAO - Sudan WFS Progress Report on Food Security (Arabic, PDF, 2004)
January 5, 2007
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E-Agriculture - Cyberagriculture - Ciberagricultura

The impact that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can have on sustainable development, and in particular, agriculture, has been highlighted through the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and other global platforms. The realization of the effective application of e-agriculture has become a ma more...
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> NEW! Click HERE to take our survey "Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World" for our upcoming Special Report.
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September 26, 2006
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2008 World Development Report to Focus
on Agriculture and Development

The World Bank has announced its flagship research publication and showcase for the latest Bank thinking on development--the World Development Report--will focus on Agriculture and Development  in 2008, the first WDR to focus on agriculture since 1982. President Paul Wolfowitz selected agriculture as the topic for the first WDR to be completely produced under his leadership.


The World Development Report is produced on an annual more...
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>+ 2006 WDR - Equity Enhances the Power of Growth to Reduce Poverty
>+ World Bank WDRs
>+ dgFoodSecurity Agriculture Key Issue (1690 items)
>+ World Development Report to Focus on Agriculture - It's About Time!
July 7, 2006
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Bi-Monthly Highlight: World Urban Forum (19-23 June 2006)
A UN-Habitat event on urban sustainability to bring together public and private institutions, experts and decision-makers from around the world to discuss key urban challenges facing the world today. It is projected that in the next fifty years, two-thirds of humanity will be living in towns and cities. A major challenge is to minimize burgeoning poverty in cities and improve the urban poor's access to basic facilities such as shelter, clean water and sanitation. Event held in Vancouve more...
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>3e Forum urbain mondial
>WUF UN-HABITAT
>Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF); see three FS related events at WUF here
>Cities Feeding People (IDRC)
>Urban Issues at dgFoodSecurity
>3rd World Urban Forum
>dgSpecialReport: Urban Environment: Challenges to Sustainability
>dgUrbanDevelopment Community
June 13, 2006
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Bi-Monthly Highlight: Gender and Food Security

Rural women are responsible for half of the world's food production and produce between 60-80% of the food in most developing countries. Yet, despite their contribution to global food security, women farmers are frequently underestimated and overlooked in development strategies. A lack of available gender disaggregated data means that women's contribution to agriculture in particular is poorly understood and their specific needs ig more...
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>dgFoodSecurity Gender Key Issue
>UNFPA State of the World Population 2005: The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
>Gender resources at IFPRI
>New dgSpecial Report: Online Education: What Can It Deliver?
>UNIFEM
>Changing Social Institutions to Improve the Status of Women in Developing Countries
>International Women's Day (8 March 2006)
>Equidad de género en las micro y pequeñas empresas rurales
>Gender dgCommunity
>Día internacional de la mujer (8 de marzo de 2006)
>Women and Rural Development Resources at WomenWatch
>FAO Gender and Population Division
>Journée internationale de la femme (8 mars 2006)
March 8, 2006
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Contribution to the dgSpecial Report on Online Education:
EC-FAO's Food Security Information for Action Programme
Reinforcing Capacity through Distance Learning
The Programme aims at enhancing national and local capacity to generate, manage, and use food security information from different sectors for more effective policies and programmes. This multi-disciplinary country-based initiative draws on FAO's expertise in early warning and remote sensing, economic and policy analysis, statistics, nutrition, inter-agency coordination, and training and capacity building. Special features of the Programme include a consultancy fund for additional more...
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>Information Management and Resource Kit (IMARK)
>Using E-Learning to Support National Food Security Information Systems and Networks (EC-FAO Programme Information)
>dgSpecialReport on Online Education
>dgFoodSecurity Training Resources
>dgE-learning Community
February 10, 2006
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Bi-Monthly Highlight
HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, and Food Security Conference
(8-12 May 2006 - Lusaka, Zambia)
 

Project Concern International and partners are hosting this event bringing together development professionals, health experts, government officials, grassroots organizations, and business leaders from Africa, Europe and the United States. The conference, entitled "Food Security and HIV/AIDS:  An Integrated Response to the Dual Epidemics of Hunger and HIV/AIDS in Africa", will showcase practical, cost-effective interventions from the public and private more...
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>-Addressing HIV/AIDS through Agriculture and Natural Resource Sectors: Guide for Extension Workers
>-HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Nutritional Care and Support
>-Potential Uses of Food Aid to Support HIV/AIDS Mitigation Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa
>-Conference website
>-Improving the Nutrition Impacts of Agricultural Interventions: Strategy and Policy Briefs
>-Drought and AIDS Make Malawi Desperate for Food Aid
>-Key Issue on Nutrition and Health at dgFoodSecurity
>-dgHIV/AIDS Community
>-Looking Ahead: Long-Term Prospects for Africa's Agricultural Development and Food Security
>-A Leadership Strategy for Reducing Hunger and Malnutrition in Africa
>-Zambia Nutrition Guidelines for the Care and Support of People Living with HIV/AIDS
>-Latest IFPRI Update on the World Food Situation
January 11, 2006
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Highlight: 6th WTO Ministerial Conference -
Agricultural Tariffs, Subsidies, Poverty at Issue
This 6th conference will be vital for enabling the four-year-old Doha Development Agenda negotiations to move forward sufficiently to conclude the Round in 2006. For the negotiations on agriculture and non-agricultural market access, the next aim is to agree on formulas and other details that will determine the scale of reductions in tariffs, and on farm subsidies. Event held in Hong Kong, China (13-18 December 2005) .
Related links:
>Agricultural Trade Reform Offers Benefits But the Poor Could Be Left Behind (SOFA 2005)
>FAO's Trade in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Division
>Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda (World Bank)
>Position de CONCORD sur le commerce, l'agriculture et le développement
>Trading Places: PANOS Reporting from the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference
>Talking Doha Down (The Economist)
>Agricultural Trade Resources available at dgTrade
>Why the European Union Retains its Strange Fondness for Farm Subsidies, the French Case
>Trade Resouces available at dgFoodSecurity
>World Trade Organisation Conference Website
>La sixième Conférence ministérielle de l'OMC
>Sexta Conferencia Ministerial de la OMC
>Agreement? End of Agricultural Export Subsidies for 2010 or 2013
>IFPRI on the State of Agricultural Trade Negotiations
December 14, 2005
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Bridging the Rural Digital Divide
World Summit on the Information Society (16-18 November 2005)
The information revolution has completely bypassed nearly one billion people. They are the rural poor, who constitute 75 percent of the people in the world who live on less than one dollar a day. The advent of ICTs has served only to widen the gap between them and others who do have access to such technologies. The rural digital divide is most evident when comparing the disparities between urban and rural communities, men and women and between successful farmers and their less successful neighbo more...
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>World Summit on the Information Society
>Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
>FAO's BRDD
>FAO Press Release and Interviews (RealAudio and MP3)
>Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK)
>Read the Development Gateway Special Report - Information Society: The Next Steps
November 11, 2005
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World Food Day: Agriculture and Intercultural Dialogue
(16 October 2005)

The theme recalls the contribution of different cultures to world agriculture and argues that sincere intercultural dialogue is a precondition for progress against hunger and environmental degradation. World Food Day provides an opportunity at local, national and international levels to further dialogue and enhance solidarity on these and other related issues. (Logo credit, FAO)
Related links:
>- Telefood
>- Journée mondiale de l'alimentation
>- FAO World Food Day Web Site
>- Día mundial de la alimentación
>- Lookup events in your country
>- State of Food Insecurity in the World Reports (SOFI)
>- Swiss WFD Symposium: Poor Health, Food Insecurity, and Poverty - How to Break a Vicious Circle? (13-14 October 2005)
>- WFD USA Teleconference (October 14th)
>- WFD Activity in London, U.K. (October 17th)
>Read the Development Gateway Special Report - Information Society: The Next Steps
>- Exposition à Agropolis-Museum (Montpellier) : Nourrir neuf milliards d'hommes (13 octobre-30 novembre)
October 5, 2005
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