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Biodiversity & Sustainable Diets: United Against Hunger

28 October 2010 | Permalink

3-5 November 2010, Rome

The programme is now available for the International Scientific Symposium, ‘Biodiversity & Sustainable Diets: United Against Hunger’. The 3-day event, which starts next week, is jointly hosted by Bioversity International and FAO.

The focus of the symposium is the global challenge of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, considering their impact on poverty and health. It will also consider the need to re-examine food systems and will present case studies that examine ways to improve the nutritional quality, affordability and sustainability of diets while protecting food biodiversity.

Download the symposium programme (693 KB)

To register, email a copy of the registration form (32 KB) to:
Sustainable-Diets(at)fao.org

For more details, click here

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See also: Conferences & Events, Malnutrition, Nutrition

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