Beyond the crossroads
Mittwoch, den 02. November 2011 um 13:52 Uhr
International Conference Berlin
9—10 November, 2011
Beyond the Crossroads: New Issues, Persistent Problems.
Linking food security, sustainability
science and sustainability politics
Since in April 2008 the final Intergovernmental Panel in Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa, has accepted the reports and summaries of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), its core questionsand issues have become even more urgent. How to
· reduce hunger and poverty,
· improve rural livelihoods and human health, and
· reach equitable, socially, environmentally and economically sustainable development?
While many international political summits and conferences onhunger and international aid have been taken place and pleasant final communiqués been aired, real politics in most countries turned out to do business as usual. Just the same pattern we’ve seen following the I. Assessment Report (AR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. But at the time when the IV. AR of the IPCC has been published in 2007, national and global
politics finally noticed, taking the findings and conclusions seriously and indicating that it is of utmost importance to deliver complex assessments to decision makers not once but time and again. The Millennium Development Goals (MDG), especially MDG 1 might not be accomplished until 2015, other MDG show also a very mixed balance. In 2011, as in 2010, nearly one billion people are suffering from hunger.