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Communications in 2002
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The International Year of Mountains - a real catalyst for change
An interim report on the International Year of Mountains delivered by Florence Chenoweth, Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the United Nations at the UN General Assembly, New York (November 2002).
Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Mountain Regions
Statement delivered on behalf of FAO Director-General, Jacques Diouf by Jacques Eckebil, Assistant Director-General, Sustainable Development Department, at the International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Mountains held in Adelboden, Switzerland (16-20 June 2002).
Food Security in Mountains
In his key-note address at the Sustainable Mountain Development side event at the World Food Summit: five years later (10-13 June 2002), El Hadji Sene, Director of the Forest Resources Division at FAO, stressed that one of the main reasons for undernourishment in mountain areas is the scourge of violence and armed conflict.
Global International Year of Mountains launch highlights peace
Armed conflict and hunger must be eradicated to protect the world's fragile mountain ecosystems and alleviate the desperate poverty that exists in many mountain communities, said Jacques Diouf, Director-General of FAO in his keynote address to the global launch of the International Year of Mountains at UN headquarters in New York (11 December 2001).
Mountains and the promise of ecotourism
Statement of David A. Harcharik, FAO Deputy Director-General at the Conference on Ecotourism in Mountain Areas: A Challenge to Sustainable Development
St Johann/Pongau and Werfenweng Salzburg, Austria (12-15 September 2001).
