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AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Meetings & Events
Youth-led Innovation: Ensuring good food for all, today and tomorrow
This event highlights the importance of engaging global youth in STI, showcasing young scientists, innovators and presenting opportunities for youth to transform agrifood systems and achieve the SDGs.
Audio Languages: English, Original
8 May 2024
Sustainable food systems and traditions - SDG Media Zone at the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly
Sustainable food systems cut across the achievement of all the Sustainable Development Goals. However, current agricultural practices and systems are depleting our natural resources. Agriculture is the largest consumer of the world's freshwater resources, one of the main contributors to greenhouse gasses, and more than one-quarter of the energy used globally is consumed on food production and supply.
Audio Languages: English, Original
19 September 2023
Media Stakeouts
Antony Blinken (United States/Security Council President) on the priorities during its presidency of the UN Security Council & other topics - Security Council Media Stakeout
Comments to the media by Antony Blinken, Secretary of State of the United States of America, and President of the Security Council for the month of August, on the United States' priorities during its presidency of the UN Security Council, including ending famine and conflict-induced global food insecurity and defending human rights.
Audio Languages: English, Original
3 August 2023
Features
Agriculture for Development: Community Gardens in Rural Gambia
n central Gambia, the life of Bintou Nije and other smallholder farmers was not easy. But after joining a UN-led training programme, their life has changed.
Audio Languages: English
30 April 2023
Features
Rice Revolution: Climate-Resilient Rice Empowers Rural Gambia
Mariam Leigh is a small-scale farmer in the Central River Region in The Gambia. Like many smallholders, she struggled to make ends meet. Since she joined Maruo Farms, her life has changed.
Audio Languages: English
29 April 2023
Features
Strawberries for Change: Young Farmer's Challenge in Rural Gambia
In The Gambia, strawberry production is rare and the majority of food is imported. After having received a three-month training on vegetable production, 24-year old Alhadgie Faal decided to build his own small business where he and his brother grow high-value vegetables and fruits, including strawberries.
Audio Languages: English
28 April 2023
Side Events
Water Management Innovation for Underserved Populations (UN 2023 Water Conference Side Event)
The IBM Sustainability Accelerator is a pro-bono social impact program speeding and scaling nonprofit and governmental organization environmental sustainability initiatives supporting vulnerable populations.
Audio Languages: English, Original
22 March 2023
General Assembly
Sexual orientation and gender identity in armed conflict and peacebuilding (Side Event of the Third Committee, General Assembly, 77th session)
From wars against diversity to an inclusive peace: Violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in armed conflict (Side event of the Third Committee, General Assembly, 77th session).
Audio Languages: English, Original
31 October 2022
Security Council
The situation in the Middle East - Security Council, 9088th meeting
The situation in the Middle East.
Audio Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
11 July 2022
High Level Events
(Part 2) Africa Dialogue Series 2022 High Level Policy Forum "Building Resilience in Nutrition on the African Continent: Accelerate the Human Capital, Social and Economic Development"
On 26 and 27 May, a High-Level Policy Dialogue will be held to further integrate the views of Member States into the examination of the four ADS 2022 sub-themes. Sub-themes 3 and 4 will be covered on 27 May.
Audio Languages: English, Original
27 May 2022
Conferences
Launch - 2021 The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report - HLPF 2021 Side Event
2021 The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report: "Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition, and affordable healthy diets for all". The 2021 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World provides the latest updates and trends in food security and nutrition, and offers some indication of what hunger would look like by 2030, in a scenario further complicated by the enduring effects of COVID-19.
Audio Languages: English, Original
12 July 2021
Features
International Day of Family Remittances (16 June) - Lack of digital infrastructure risks leaving millions of poor rural families in poverty
Despite a massive 65% increase in migrants sending money home via digital transfers in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of their rural family members struggle to access mobile banking services which could help lift them out of poverty.
Audio Languages: English, Spanish
15 June 2021