Tuesday, April 3, 2012

100 days to Rio+20, 100 facts

By IISD, March 2012

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has produced a fact sheet ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), highlighting the links between people, food and the environment. The fact sheet, titled "100 days to Rio+20, 100 facts: Making the link between people, food and the environment," documents sustainable development challenges related to hunger, water, forestry, gender, fisheries, land, food supplies/production/waste, and nature and the environment. It presents simple facts that together describe the current status of these systems.

Read the facts from here