Thursday, 29 September 2011

FAO is failing to fulfil its mandate

Mr Rudd heavily criticised the UN's Food Agriculture Organisation, which has a $1.2 billion annual budget, saying it was failing to fulfil its mandate to raise nutrition levels and improve agricultural productivity.
He said the federal government met with the FAO last week and was assessing Australian aid funding to the organisation.
“The challenge for the FAO is to respond to the criticisms of it, and use the recent reviews to reframe itself, and to achieve better results,” Mr Rudd said.

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Welcome to Brisbane

Welcome to the 5th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (WCCA) incorporating the 3rd Farming Systems Design (FSD) Conference (www.wcca2011.org), 26-29 September, Brisbane, Australia 

The co-location of WCCA and FSD brings a great opportunity to discuss the design of more sustainable and resilient food production systems in face of global change.


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