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Colombia + 15 others
Update on UNHCR’s operations in the Americas

Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme

Sixty-third session

Geneva, 1-5 October 2012

A. Situational analysis including new developments

In the Americas region, the implementation of pledges made during the Ministerial Intergovernmental Event1, held in December 2011, have been consolidated in the following areas:

Statelessness

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Burkina Faso + 9 others
Agriculture development and food security - Report of the Secretary-General (A/64/221)

Sixty-fourth session
Item 62 of the provisional agenda
Agriculture development and food security

Summary

The impacts of the 2008 food crisis have been complex and far-reaching, increasing the number of hungry and undernourished people in the world and jeopardizing the progress made in achieving internationally agreed development goals. Climate change, energy needs, diminishing natural resources and ailing or outdated market systems all are factors that affect the ability to respond to the food security challenge in a strategic and

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Côte d'Ivoire + 27 others
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter (A/HRC/12/31)

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Twelfth session
Agenda item 3

PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Crisis into opportunity: reinforcing multilateralism

Summary

Since the global food crisis has put hunger at the top of the political agenda, important efforts have been put, at both international and national levels, into increasing the supply of food. Producing more food will not, however, reduce hunger if we neglect