FAO is a key partner in
the implementation of three environmental
conventions, namely, the United Nations
Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD)
- FAO's mandate involving agrobiodiversity
- the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification (UNCCD) and the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Environmental conventions and agreements
addresses mainly technical and policy issues
related to these three conventions. It deals
mostly with normative activities (such as
policy and technical guidelines and databases),
but it also includes information on field
programmes. Selected technical and institutional
links to many other partners that support
these conventions are also included under
this theme.
Challenges and
opportunities for the World Summit on Sustainable
Development
"Challenges and opportunities for the
World Summit on Sustainable Development:
FAO's perspective" was prepared as
a contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable
Development, Johannesburg, 26 August-4 September
2002. more................
Earth Summit+5:
progress on the road from Rio
The FAO is Task Manager for four of Agenda
21's key chapters - planning and management
of land resources, combating deforestation,
sustainable mountain development, and sustainable
agriculture and rural development. It is
actively involved in the implementation
of others - such as combating desertification
and drought, and conservation of biological
diversity - and in broader areas covered
by Agenda more..................
Potential impacts
of sea-level rise on population and agriculture
This Special addresses issues related to
the potential impacts of sea level rise
on the world's coastal populations and agriculture.
It is a global study mostly based on national
data. The paper stresses that both the impacted
system (population and coastal agriculture)
and the extreme physical factors have their
own dynamics, and that those dynamics are
not independent. Some thought is given to
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Biological diversity
for food and agriculture
FAO's goal is to help build a food-secure
world for present and future generations,
through access of all people at all times
to sufficient nutritionally adequate and
safe food. This requires the conservation
and utilization of biological diversity,
particularly biological diversity for food
and agriculture, within sustainable ecosystems.
FAO assists in the implementation of biodiversity-related
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FAO report for
the Third Conference of Parties of the Convention
to Combat Desertification (CCD)
This report to the conference,
held in Recife, Brazil, 16-29 November 1999,
reviews FAO's past and current activities
in the fight against desertification, including
monitoring and normative programmes as well
as field projects
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Report:
Sustaining agricultural biodiversity and
agro-ecosystem functions
This report was presented at the International
Technical Workshop organized jointly by
FAO and the Secretariat of the Convention
on Biological Diversity, in Rome, 2-4 December
1998. The workshop resulted in a set of
provisional recommendations for the further
development and implementation of an integrated
Work Programme on Agricultural Biodiversity.
The article contains the workshop context,
term more...................
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Foreword , The World
Summit on Sustainable Development, to be
held in Johannesburg this year, is an important
landmark in the global imperative of sustainable
development. Coming a decade after the historic
United Nations Conference on Environment
and Development at Rio de Janeiro, it will
take a look at the road travelled so far,
assess our successes and many shortcomings,
and proclaim again our collective commitment
to sustainability, without which "development"
is meaningless.
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