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e-bulletin • December 2014 • Issue No.4


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Welcome to FAO’s e-bulletin on the post-2015 development agenda. In this issue, we bring you up to date on what’s been happening in 2014 and events planned in 2015 through 10 key elements. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, FAO Assistant Director-General, describes the inextricable link between food security and sustainable development in a video interview. And after rounding up the latest events related to post-2015, we present FAO’s themes in sustainable development through an infographic and a photo gallery.
–  FAO’s Post-2015 team






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Post-2015 gears up for defining year<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/270530/>


As 2014 draws to a close, the new framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the end of 2015 is taking ever greater shape. Recent months have seen considerable activity in the process ahead of upcoming intergovernmental negotiations...

July: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) produces a report<http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/post-2015/Info_Kit_Post-2015/OWG_SDGs_report_and_proposal/OWG_SDGs_report_and_proposal__EN_.pdf> proposing 17 goals and 169 targets.

September: The UNGA adopts a resolution making the OWG proposal the “the main basis for integrating SDGs into the post-2015 development agenda…”.

November: Member States begin to discuss the modalities for the intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. The informally agreed draft<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2xGPL1WhiQrYkhVYkJuSndLbXM/view?pli=1> includes dates, working methods, scope, means of implementation, interacting with other conferences, and the continued involvement of major groups.

December: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon releases an advance unedited “synthesis report<http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5527SR_advance%20unedited_final.pdf>” of the post-2015 process so far. Entitled The Road to Dignity by 2030: Ending Poverty, Transforming All Lives and Protecting the Planet, the report, to be finalized by 31 December 2014, welcomes the OWG report and proposes a set of six essential elements to “facilitate the deliberations of Member States” ahead of the post-2015 summit. They are: dignity, people, prosperity, planet, justice and partnership.

UNGA President Sam Kutesa reveals dates for high-level thematic debates and events focusing on the theme and priorities for the 69th session Delivering on and implementing a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda<http://www.un.org/pga/post-2015/>.

With new global goals to be announced in a little over nine months, we bring you an overview of the post-2015 development agenda in 10 key points.

[cid:image004.png@01D01EC7.65379110] ARTICLE: COUNTDOWN TO THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/270530/>







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Video: No sustainability without food security – Jomo Sundaram<http://www.fao.org/news/audio-video/detail-video/en/?uid=10846>


Jomo Kwame Sundaram, FAO Assistant Director-General for Economic and Social Development, gives an overview of the process to determine successor goals to the MDGs. He underlines the importance of food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture to a new framework, and explains why a growing global population, diminishing natural resource base and worsening effects of climate change are shaping talks along the lines of future sustainability.

[cid:image004.png@01D01EC7.65379110] WATCH THE VIDEO INTERVIEW <http://www.fao.org/news/audio-video/detail-video/en/?uid=10846>







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Infographic: 14 themes linking food security to sustainable development<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/273242/>


Among the most pressing challenges facing the world today is feeding a growing global population projected to increase from over 7 billion currently to over 9 billion by 2050. This will require food production to increase by 60 percent globally.

It is a challenge that is compounded by the additional threats of climate change, increasing water and land scarcity, soil and land degradation, and a deteriorating natural resource base, threats that will mainly hurt the world’s poor and vulnerable, especially those living in rural areas, who represent the vast majority of the at least 805 million who suffer hunger on a daily basis.

Featuring FAO’s 14 themes of focus in the post-2015 development agenda, this infographic presents the interlinkages that exist between food security and nutrition and the emerging priorities of a sustainable development agenda.

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CFS considers future engagement in sustainable development goals<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/264494/>


The post-2015 development agenda featured prominently among topics discussed at the 41st annual session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome from 13-18 October.

The world’s foremost inclusive intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder platform for food security and nutrition brought together hundreds of representatives from governments, civil society organizations, private sector and research institutions during World Food Week.

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Rome UN agencies welcome UNGA resolution on SDG report<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/253861/>


FAO, IFAD and WFP united in commending the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Open Working Group (OWG) report on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at a side event held during the 24th session of the Committee on Agriculture at FAO headquarters in Rome on 30 September.

The event, which brought together speakers representing the EU, the Dominican Republic as well as the three Rome-based UN agencies (RBAs), focused on food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture in the post-2015 development agenda.

[cid:image004.png@01D01EC7.65379110] READ MORE<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/news/detail-news/en/c/253861/>







Events round up: Food for talk in Geneva, rural women in New York and fighting hunger awards in Rome


Combining two topical themes - the second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) and the process to determine successor goals to the MDGs, Nutrition in the post-2015 development agenda was the title of the first in a series of Food for Talk discussions organised by FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (LOG), Switzerland on 30 October.

[cid:image004.png@01D01EC7.65379110] WATCH THE VIDEO <http://www.fao.org/europe/log/food-for-talks-series/en/>

The crucial role of rural women in delivering a truly sustainable post-2015 development agenda was the central message at a special event organised by FAO, WFP, IFAD and UN Women at UN headquarters in New York on 15 October, International Day for Rural Women.

[cid:image004.png@01D01EC7.65379110] VIEW THE WEBCAST <http://webtv.un.org/search/empower-rural-women-in-the-post-2015-development-agenda/3841428860001?term=rural>

Thirteen countries have won recognition from FAO for outstanding progress in fighting hunger, an achievement which includes reaching international targets ahead of the end-of-2015 deadline.

[cid:image004.png@01D01EC7.65379110] READ THE FULL REPORT <http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/awards/en/>





DOWNLOAD the PDF version of the e-bulletin<http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/post-2015/E-bulletin/December_2014/e-bulletin-04_EN_3_.pdf>





600+ tweet tweet @FAOpost2015

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Join more than 600 followers of our fledgling twitter account @FAOpost2015<https://twitter.com/FAOpost2015> and get all the latest news on the post-2015 process.





Online in 6 languages<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/home/en/>


Our collection of webpages dedicated to the post-2015 development agenda and achievement of the MDGs is now in Arabic, Chinese and Russian as well as English, French and Spanish. [cid:image004.png@01D01EC7.65379110] MORE<http://www.fao.org/post-2015-mdg/home/en/>





FAO news, Guardian style<http://www.theguardian.com/fao-partner-zone>


Follow the latest news, features and interviews on food security and nutrition related to the post-2015 development agenda in a newly launched FAO-partner page hosted on a special online section of Guardian News and Media.
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Picturing a sustainable world<http://www.theguardian.com/fao-partner-zone/gallery/2014/dec/04/photo-gallery-food-and-the-planet>


With pictures plucked from the Organization’s archives, this photo gallery presents a snapshot of 14 interlinked themes FAO considers critical to ending hunger, achieving food security and ushering in an era of sustainable development.
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You may have missed...

MDG hunger target “within reach”- SOFI

September 2014 - The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI 2014) <http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/> estimates that about 805 million people in the world, or one in nine, suffer from hunger today.

9 out of 10 farms run by families – SOFA

October 2014 - The State of Food and Agriculture 2014 <http://www.fao.org/publications/sofa/en/> highlights the role of family farmers as potential agents of change in a new sustainable development agenda.

Countries commit to tackle malnutrition - ICN2

November 2014 - The Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), organized by FAO and the World Health Organization (WHO), saw over 170 countries adopt the Rome Declaration on Nutrition<http://www.fao.org/3/a-ml542e.pdf>.







DID YOU KNOW...?

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Family farms are the custodians of about 75 percent of all agricultural resources in the world, and are therefore key to improved ecological and resource sustainability.





FAST FACTS

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A quarter of land is
highly degraded and a further 44 percent of land is slightly or moderately degraded due to the erosion, salinization, compaction and chemical pollution of soils.








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Post-2015 learning hub<http://post2015.unssc.org>

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Millennium Development Goals<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/beyond2015-overview.shtml>

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Sustainable development policy & practice<http://sd.iisd.org>

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