I speak today on behalf of Australia and New Zealand.
In September of 2011, the General Assembly adopted a Political Declaration (resolution 66/2, annex) that recognized that death and disability from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) had reached epidemic proportions. Then, as now, non-communicable …
With close to 1 billion people suffering from malnutrition, including one third of all children in the developing world, and with rapid population growth, soaring food prices and climate change threatening to intensify those challenges, the imperative to identify viable options for sustainable agric…
