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Article: MORE FOOD, GROWN SMARTER, GREENER, FOCUS OF UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION MEETING AT HEADQUARTERS, 4-15 MAY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 2, 2009
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UNITED NATIONS, May 1 -- The United Nations issued the following press release:
With a lingering food crisis and global population growing by 90 million a year, countries will decide how they can scale up successful pilot projects to grow more food in a greener way when the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development meets at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 May.
"Solutions exist," says Tariq Banuri, Director of the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development. "We know what they are. We just need to use them globally and tailor them locally to put the world's agricultural production onto a more secure and sustainable footing."
Many of the policy ...