DOCUMENTATION

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
  • Crops Prospects and Food Situation – FAO, April 2008
  • Fighting Food Inflation – European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and FAO, 10 March 2008
  • Growing Demand on Agriculture and Rising Prices of Commodities: An Opportunity for Smallholders in Low-Income, Agricultural-Based Countries? – FAO, 14 February 2008
  • Current World Fertilizer Trends and Outlook to 2011/12 – FAO, 2008

• World Food Programme - WFP
  • Response to Global Food Crisis, 10 May 2008

• World Bank
  • Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries – World Ban k, 16 April 2008

• United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP
  • Agriculture and Environment: Climate Change Challenges and Policy Options (English, French, Spanish)
  • Website on bio-energy
  • Farmers and the Future of Agro-biodiversity
  • Agriculture, Agro-Biodiversity and Climate Change
  • Investing in Agriculture and Agro-biodiversity
  • Agricultural innovations and their impact on agro-biodiversity
  • Biofuels and agro-biodiversity
  • Governance and Agriculture

• United Nations Energy
  • Sustainable Bioenergy: A Frameworkd for Decision Makers, April 2007

• UNICEF
  • Documentation on the topic of Nutrition, Unicef

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - UNCTAD
  • Accra Declaration, UNCTAD XII (Please see paragraphs 5 and 6)

• United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination – CEB
  • Joint communiqué, Berne, Switzerland, 29 April 2008
  • United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 40th Session - The World Food Crisis-Statement (Advanced Edited Version)
  • Civil Society Forum on the Global Food Crisis, 16 May 2008 - Outcome Document

• Additional Internet Links
  • United Nations Secretary-General's Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis
  • Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
    • Portal of the World Food Situation, FAO
    • High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
  • International Fund for Agricultural Development - IFAD
    • Rising Food Prices, IFAD
  • International Monetary Fund - IMF
    • IMF Works with Vulnerable States on Food Price Policies – IMF, 28 April 2008
    • Ministers Resolve to Counter Slowdown, Combat Food Hikes – IMF, 13 April 2008
  • International Food Policy Research Institute – IFPRI
    • The World Food Situation, IFPRI, December 2007
  • United Nations Development Programme - UNDP
    • Drought and Food Security in Africa- UNDP
  • Food price crisis, World Bank
  • World Food Programme - WFP

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