Welcome to FAO’s e-bulletin on the post-2015 development agenda, the process designed to craft a successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals. In this issue, we feature proposed targets and indicators for FAO’s 14 priority themes for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), hear from Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General for Natural Resources, who describes FAO’s post-2015 focus in a video interview, and pick out six innovative ways of engaging in the process.– FAO’s Post-2015 team |
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released proposed targets and indicators for 14 themes the Organization is focusing on in support of the UN-wide process to define global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Following April’s release of common targets and indicators by the Rome-based Agencies (RBA) - FAO, IFAD and WFP, these 14 themes include common RBA areas such as food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture, but also span FAO’s broader mandate covering environmental stewardship and the sustainable management of natural resources.
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Maria Helena Semedo, FAO’s Deputy Director-General for Natural Resources, gives an overview of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) role in the post-2015 process. Watch the video interview Highlighting the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in poverty and hunger, she explains how the world has moved on since the year 2000 and how different the post-2015 development framework will be. READ MORE |
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A “zero draft” document on proposed sustainable development goals and targets has been released (2 June) by the Co-Chairs of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The new document adds a goal on “reducing inequality within and among countries” to the 16 focus areas discussed at the 11th session of the OWG held between 5 and 9 May. READ MORE |
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Targets and indicators on sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition were the subject of discussion among New York delegates of members of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and representatives of civil society at meetings hosted by the Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) - FAO, IFAD and WFP, in New York on 5 and 7 May. The gatherings – held during the week of the eleventh session of the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – presented an opportunity for discussion on proposed targets under OWG focus area 2, for which the RBAs, working within the United Nations Technical Support Team, have collaborated to provide input.
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As the post-2015 development agenda approaches a defining moment with the negotiation of Sustainable Development Goals, we present some of the innovative tools available for youth and the general public to participate in the process to define new global development goals. READ MORE |
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| DID YOU KNOW...? | 
| Today, only a fifth of the world population enjoys sufficient social protection. An additional 30 percent is partially, but not sufficiently covered, leaving half of the world excluded. |
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| Of the 30 000 edible plants, just 4 – wheat, rice, maize and potatoes – provide 60 percent of the world population’s energy intake. Using such a small number of species increases the vulnerability of agriculture systems and puts food security and nutrition at risk. |
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