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There is no climate security without food security and no food security without climate security

This statement is a summary of Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) held in parallel to COP16 on Saturday 4 th December in Cancun. It describes the key issues and outcomes of the Day as well as messages to the UNFCCC on how to take forward agriculture in the negotiations.

A Call for Action on Agriculture and Climate Change

ARDD was convened by over 19 leading organisations from the UN, governments and development agencies, civil society, farmers groups, research community, private sector and the media to show how agriculture can contribute to a low emission future while adapting

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Malawi + 18 others
New partnership for Africa's development: seventh consolidated progress report on implementation and international support (A/64/204)

Sixty-fourth session
Item 65 (a) of the provisional agenda
New Partnership for Africa's Development:
progress in implementation and international support

Report of the Secretary-General

Summary

In recent years, African countries with the support of the international community have taken several policy actions to implement the sectoral priorities of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and enhance prospects for meeting the Millennium Development Goals. The current report indicates that, despite the global financial

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Global: Freedom from hunger is "not an optional human right"

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IRIN
NEW YORK, 12 December 2007 (IRIN) - The world has the technical ability but lacks the political will to eliminate global hunger, a scourge afflicting one in eight people that is as much a violation of human rights as torture, according to a report by the NGO, Action Against Hunger.

A main tenet of the study, the Justice of Eating - the Struggle for Food and Dignity in Recent Humanitarian Crises, is that the right to food is an inextricable part of the basic set of freedoms embodying human rights that are collectively the minimum conditions necessary for the realisation of human dignity.

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Launching latest Africa report, Deputy Secretary-General cites some 'good news' - Towards attaining Millennium Development Goals, urges scaled up interventions

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Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro's opening remarks at today's Headquarters press conference on the Millennium Development Goals:

Today, the G-8 Summit gets under way in Germany and the United Nations has taken this opportunity to launch an update on the progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in sub-Saharan Africa. And this is particularly because, at the G-8 Summit, the Secretary-General

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Malawi + 4 others
Canadian Red Cross expands Campaign Against Malaria in Africa with support from CIDA

Ottawa, April 17 - Canadian Red Cross is pleased to announce the expansion of its successful malaria program, which has distributed nearly 2.6 million mosquito nets in six African countries. These activities have been made possible through the generous support of the Canadian International Development Agency.

The Honourable Josée Verner, Minister of International Cooperation and Minister for La Francophonie and Official Languages, today announced that Canada is committing $20 million to the Canadian Red Cross malaria program and other malaria programs aimed at saving lives in Africa.

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Africa: Food Security - a paradigm shift

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ICRC
In spite of decades of dedicated effort and billions of dollars in aid, hunger still stalks the world. Why is hunger so entrenched? And what is the Movement doing about it?

On a hot day in the remote Malawian village of Chimpholi, more than 100 children at a day-care centre are ready for lunch. One by one they collect a plate containing a handful of porridge.

Sitting under a tree, Yohane Chabwera, 6, is worried. It is the orphan's first meal of the day and most likely his last. "I didn't have enough - Iam still hungry," he says in a faint voice.

A drought has left more than one-third

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Malawi + 7 others
Africa food crisis appeal

The British Red Cross is extending its appeal for aid to Africa as a food crisis threatens to engulf large swathes of the continent.
More than 20 million people across east, west and southern Africa are struggling to live on meagre food and water supplies. Drought, disease and inflated food prices are just some of the reasons for a crisis, which is complex and widespread.

In southern Africa long dry spells followed by flooding has ruined crops. The region also has the world's highest HIV prevalence, which has dramatically weakened the farming workforce and thus

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Millions face severe hunger and starvation across Africa as CARE International UK launches emergency appeal

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CARE
Millions of people across Africa face severe hunger and starvation unless the international community heeds calls for rapid action.
Leading international aid agency CARE International UK is today launching a major public campaign in an effort to avert the mounting crisis which is affecting 35 million people across the continent - the equivalent of more than half of the population of the UK.

The situation is especially difficult in the southern African countries of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe with climbing rates of malnutrition and rapidly rising food prices combined with insufficient

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Concern uses GIS software from ESRI to fight hunger in Africa

Aid agency Concern, has received a donation from ESRI Ireland, the geographical information systems (GIS) provider, for 30 copies of their flagship product ArcView.

Using this software Concern can map and assess the vulnerability of areas where it provides aid. "ArcView allows us to have a spatial understanding of the nutrition and food security vulnerabilities in the areas we are working. This allows us to plan our interventions in areas of greatest need." says Valerie Gatchell (Nutrition Adviser, Concern).

Concern is currently piloting the GIS

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Malawi + 8 others
Drought and locusts decimate crops across Africa

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CARE
More than 30 million people in need of food aid

While members of the G8 gather today in Scotland to discuss whether or not to help Africa, 3.6 million people in Niger are walking the slow road to starvation. The worst locust infestation in 15 years decimated crops through west and central Africa, and a worsening drought has withered any remaining harvest.

This is the Africa being discussed at this week's conference, where drought and food shortages are problems that many Africans face every day. Development programmes and government initiatives

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Health and care in the community: Special focus on HIV/AIDS in Africa Appeal No. 01.65/2002 Programme Update No. 2

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IFRC
The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in 178 countries. For more information: www.ifrc.org
Appeal No. 01.65/2002

Appeal Target: CHF 4,442,993 (USD 3.01 million / EUR 3.02 million)

Beneficiaries/target groups (if available): N/A

Programme Update No. 2; Period covered: January - October, 2002

IN BRIEF

Update/Summary: Continued support