May 25 2012
Ahead of the Rio+20 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, "CGIAR, the world's largest publicly funded research body, has published a seven-point 'call to action' plan," which "call[s] for an improved commitment to deliver nutrition security and lessen the need to aid," BBC News reports. The Rio+20 meeting "will focus on two themes: a green economy in the context of sustainable development poverty eradication; and the institutional framework for sustainable development," and will include seven priority areas: "decent jobs, energy, sustainable cities, food security and sustainable agriculture, water, oceans and disaster readiness," according to organizers, the news service notes, adding that CGIAR is expected to present its plan at the meeting (Kinver, 5/23).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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