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e-bulletin • July 2015 • Issue No.6
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Welcome to FAO’s e-bulletin on the post-2015 development agenda. In this issue, we feature a new report by the Rome-based UN agencies estimating the investments needed to achieve zero hunger by 2030. The spotlight falls on the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Ethiopia, where the Addis Ababa Action Agenda was recently adopted. Two articles are dedicated to indicators ̶ FAO’s proposals for monitoring the post-2015 agenda, and a Q&A with Indian economist Vikas Rawal. We bring you the latest developments in the post-2015 process, including discussion on the zero draft of the outcome document. Finally, in a special focus on sustainable agriculture, Ren Wang, FAO ADG, explains how to produce more with less.
– FAO’s Post-2015 team
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Achieving Zero Hunger: Combining social protection with pro-poor investments<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/298272/>
Eradicating world hunger sustainably by 2030 will require an estimated additional US$267 billion per year on average for investments in rural and urban areas and in social protection, so poor people have access to food and can improve their livelihoods, a new UN report says. This would average US$160 annually for each person living in extreme poverty over the 15-year period.
Prepared by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), the report, presented to media in Rome on 10 July, was the focus of a FAO-IFAD-WFP side event on the margins of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development <http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/69/L.82> (FfD3) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 15 July.
[cid:image004.png@01D0CAEF.10FB3F00]READ MORE<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/298272/>
· Key points: Zero Hunger by 2030<http://www.theguardian.com/fao-partner-zone/2015/jul/15/zero-hunger-by-2030-11-points-to-new-un-report>
· Remarks by the FAO Director-General (Addis): Investing in a future free from hunger<http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/298476/icode/>
· Event (Addis): Approach to food security prominent in Addis Ababa Action Agenda<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/302409/>
· Video: Interview with Kostas Stamoulis, director of FAO’s Agricultural Development Economics division <http://www.fao.org/news/audio-video/detail-video/en/?uid=11246>
· Audio: Interview with Lorenzo Bellu, FAO senior economist<http://www.fao.org/news/audio-video/detail-audio/en/?uid=11244>
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Approach to food security prominent in Addis Ababa Action Agenda <http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/317881/>
Food security, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, and sustainable management and use of natural resources and ecosystems have received strong recognition in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda<http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/69/L.82> of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development<http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/>, an agreement that will play a crucial role in helping to realize the ambitious post-2015 sustainable development agenda.
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda<file:///C:\Users\allenr\Documents\new%20Richard\oldcomputer\Richard\ESW\MOI\Outcome%20AddisApproved.pdf>, which builds on the Monterrey Consensus <http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/Monterrey_Consensus.htm> (2002) and the Doha Declaration<http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/doha/documents/Doha_Declaration_FFD.pdf> (2008) in aiming to establish a policy framework on development finance and to generate investments for tackling a range of economic, social and environmental challenges, begins “Our goal is to end poverty and hunger…”, while reference to “agriculture” appears frequently in the document.
[cid:image004.png@01D0CAEF.10FB3F00]READ MORE<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/317881/>
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Marathon post-2015 agenda enters final turn <http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/317885/>
Final sessions of the UN General Assembly’s intergovernmental negotiations (IGNP) for the post-2015 development agenda are now underway in New York, with a strong feeling of optimism that by the end of July countries will agree an outcome document for adoption at September’s post-2015 summit.
IGNP co-facilitators, Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the UN and David Donoghue, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the UN, will be encouraged by agreement reached in Ethiopia on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and by a largely positive response among UN Member States and the wider international community to the release of the initial zero draft in June.
[cid:image004.png@01D0CAEF.10FB3F00]READ MORE<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/317885/>
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FAO proposes 29 indicators to monitor SDGs<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/317891/>
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has put forward a total of 29 indicators covering eight goals of the July 2014 proposal of the UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to help monitor the post-2015 development agenda.
The FAO report<http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/mdg/img/SDG_indicators_identified_by_FAO__short_version_for_public_.pdf>, together with indicators<http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/2015/06/16/detailed-inputs/> put forward by other UN agencies, entities and regional agencies, is a contribution to discussions on a post-2015 indicator framework, now moving ahead following the first meeting of a working group of the UN Statistical Commission (UNSC), the United Nations Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDG), from 1 to 2 June in New York.
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Devil in the detail - measuring sustainable development<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/317897/>
September’s post-2015 development agenda<https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015> summit of heads of state and government may well attract global headlines this year, but much of the really significant work is being executed behind the scenes. As statisticians lock heads to come up with a workable indicator framework to measure and monitor the ambitious Agenda, Vikas Rawal, Associate Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, describes the make-up and value of a sound indicator, bringing meaning to the complicated task of sizing up progress.
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Video: The role of agriculture in sustainable development <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVRsY7m8p7g>
How to feed a growing world population without depleting the planet’s resources counts high among the complex challenges facing decision-makers crafting global development goals this year. In this video, Ren Wang, Assistant Director-General for Agriculture and Consumer Protection at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, describes the centrality of agriculture to the sustainable development discussion, and highlights approaches in which farmers around the world are producing greater yields with less environmental damage.
· Watch video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVRsY7m8p7g>
· Read article: Green growth places agriculture at the heart of sustainability<http://www.theguardian.com/fao-partner-zone/2015/may/12/green-growth-places-agriculture-at-the-heart-of-sustainability>
· View the photo gallery: Beyond quinoa, 10 more super crops <https://www.flickr.com/photos/129361196@N02/sets/72157652657202592>
DOWNLOAD the PDF version of the e-bulletin<http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/post-2015/E-bulletin/July_2015/e-bulletin-06_EN.pdf>
FEATURES
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Zeroing in on hunger
This photo gallery<http://www.theguardian.com/fao-partner-zone/gallery/2015/mar/19/a-rural-focus-promises-rich-rewards> portrays the people and areas to invest in to end hunger by 2030 + MORE<https://www.flickr.com/photos/129361196@N02/sets/>
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FAO news, Guardian style
Follow the latest news, features and exclusive interviews in the FAO-partner page on a special sustainable development section of the Guardian website. + MORE<http://www.theguardian.com/fao-partner-zone>
Timeline
Check out our post-2015 calendar and note down key dates as D-Day to adopt the post-2015 development agenda gets ever closer. + MORE<http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/post-2015/Info_Kit_Post-2015/post-2015_calendar/Calendar_events_xlsx__23_July_.pdf>
Tweets tweet @FAOpost2015<https://twitter.com/FAOpost2015>
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Follow our twitter account and get all the latest news on the post-2015 process.
Fresh features
Along with new content, FAO’s Post-2015 website<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/home/en/> boasts fresh design features bringing more colour to the latest news on food security and sustainable development
COMING UP…
e-forum and webinar – Access to Information and the SDGs
Between 7 and 18 September, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and FAO will host an e-forum and selection of webinars<https://dgroups.org/fao/ciard-econsultation/sdgs-impact-access-information-societies/> to exchange ideas on how the SDGs can promote access to information + Sign in to join the e-forum<https://dgroups.org/fao/ciard-econsultation/sdgs-impact-access-information-societies/>
YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
Six key findings in new world hunger report
The recently released State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 <http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4646e.pdf> report captures the final score on progress made in the MDG era to halve the global share of hungry people (MDG 1c). From big gains in East Asia to disparities across regions, here are six major trends summing up the annual report put together by FAO, IFAD and WFP – the UN’s Rome-based food and agriculture agencies.
Full story<http://www.theguardian.com/fao-partner-zone/2015/jun/05/six-key-findings-in-new-world-hunger-report>
Video interview <http://www.theguardian.com/fao-partner-zone/2015/jun/10/video-zero-hunger-new-goal-after-un-report>
New interactive hunger map <http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/?utm_source=faohomepage&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=featurebar>
Taking stock of the MDGs
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2015_MDG_Report/pdf/MDG%202015%20rev%20(July%201).pdf> provides a detailed account of progress made achieving the eight goals set out following the Millennium Declaration in 2000.
Read the report<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2015_MDG_Report/pdf/MDG%202015%20rev%20(July%201).pdf>
Hunger-fighters awarded at FAO ceremony
An international awards ceremony has recognized the great effort made by countries around the world that has led to the near achievement of the MDG target to halve the proportion of hungry people by 2015. Some 72 of 129 countries monitored by FAO achieved the MDG target, with developing regions as a whole missing it by a small margin.
Read the article: Seventy-two countries achieve the MDG target to halve proportion of hungry people <http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/292551/icode/>
IN THE NEWS
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Papal encyclical 2015 <http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html>
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From Hunger to Climate Change - Op-Ed by Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General, FAO. The Huffington Post. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jose-graziano-da-silva/from-hunger-to-climate-ch_b_7601646.html>
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Fight against hunger too slow and uneven - Op-Ed by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at FAO. The Hindu (India). <http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/fight-against-hunger-too-slow-and-uneven/article7279094.ece>
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Sustainable Development Goals: each of us has a part to play<http://www.trust.org/item/20150618095212-b92h7/>
<http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment>
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Why should you care about the Sustainable Development Goals?<http://www.rtcc.org/2015/06/22/why-should-you-care-about-the-sustainable-development-goals/>
<https://www.globalcitizen.org/en>
DID YOU KNOW...?
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Agriculture is by far the largest user of water, accounting for almost 70 percent of all water withdrawals, and up to 95 percent in developing countries.
FAST FACTS
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Food systems consume 30 percent of the world’s available energy.
[cid:image015.png@01D0CAEF.10FB3F00]LINKS
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Financing for Development website<http://www.un.org/esa/ffd>
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The Friends of the Chair Group on broader measures of progress <http://unstats.un.org/unsd/broaderprogress>
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Action/2015<http://www.action2015.org>
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UN 2015 is the Time for Global Action
<http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment>
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Global Citizen
<https://www.globalcitizen.org/en>
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Sustainable Development Policy & Practice <http://sd.iisd.org>
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Communicating the goals- Project Everyone<http://www.project-everyone.org/>
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