June ‘92:  UN Conference on Environment & Development

Chapter 14 - Promoting Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

gopher://gopher.un.org/00/conf/unced/English/a21_14.txt

1995

Feb. '95:  Science and Technology for Integrated Land Management

Commission on Sustainable Development - Intersessional to the Third Session

New York, USA

gopher://gopher.un.org/00/esc/cn17/1994-15/sector/landmngt.txt

Apr. ‘95:  Report CSD - Promoting Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

Commission on Sustainable Development - Third Session

New York, USA

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri1.htm#third

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1996

Sept. ’96:  Consideration of Agricultural Biological Diversity under the CBD

Convention on Biological Diversity – 3^rd Conference of the parties

Buenos Aires, Argentina

http://www.biodiv.org/cop3/html/COP-3-14-e.htm

Progress under the FAO Global System for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation of Plant Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture

http://www.biodiv.org/cop3/html/COP-3-15-Rep-e.htm

Nov. ‘96:  World Food Summit

FAO

Rome, Italy

http://www.fao.org/wfs/homepage.htm

1997

Apr. ‘97:  Report of the Secretary General: Promoting Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

Commission on Sustainable Development - Fifth Session

New York, USA

gopher://gopher.un.org/00/esc/cn17/1997/off/progress/97--2a13.en

Apr. ’97:  FAO Committee on Agriculture – 14^th Session

FAO

Rome, Italy

http://www.fao.org/unfao/bodies/council/cl112/w5021e.htm

June ‘97:  Programme for further implementation of Agenda 21 - Sustainable Agriculture

UNGASS - Earth Summit II

New York, USA

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri1.htm#special

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1998

Mar. ’98:  OECD Meeting of the Committee for Agriculture at Ministerial Level

OECD

Paris, France

http://www.oecd.org/agr/ministerial/index.htm

Mar. ’98:  Programme of Work on Agricultural Biological Diversity

Convention on Biological Diversity - 4th Conference of the Parties

Bratislava, Slovak Republic

http://www.biodiv.org/cop4/4-06/cop4-6e.html

June ’98:  First European Conference of Information Technology in Agriculture

European Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture

Copenhagen, Denmark

http://www.efita.org/conference97/default.asp

June ’98:  The Second International Conference on Women in Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture

Washington DC, USA

http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rd/icwa

Oct. ’98:  Third Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research System Review

CGIAR

http://cgreview.worldbank.org/cgrevrep.htm

Oct. ’98:  Workshop on Emerging Trade Issues in Agriculture

OECD

Paris, France

http://www.oecd.org/agr/trade/index.htm

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1999

Jan. ’99:  FAO Committee on Agriculture – 15^th Session

FAO

Rome, Italy

http://www.fao.org/unfao/bodies/COAG/COAG15/default.htm

May ’99:  Asian Regional Workshop on Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture Systems

World Bank, International Federation of Agriculture Producers (IFAP)

Samsum, Turkey

http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/susint.nsf/HiddenDocView/

81F783F5A645D192852567810054BC01?OpenDocument

Results:

http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/susint.nsf/HiddenDocView/

0DC4BDE87BF02420852567810059B9C4?OpenDocument

May ’99:  OECD Council Meeting of Ministers – Food & Agriculture

OECD

Paris, France

http://www.oecd.org/agr/News/index.htm

May ’99:  Mid Term Meeting of the Consultative Group on International  Agriculture Research

CGIAR

Beijing, China

http://www.worldbank.org/html/cgiar/publications/mtm99/mtm99.html

July ’99:  Central American, Andean & Caribbean Regional Workshop on Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture Systems

World Bank, International Federation of Agriculture Producers

Belize

http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/susint.nsf/1eebb85e226b384d8525663c

000e03a8/015a799cdb887cad8525671a00816b4a?OpenDocument

Sept. '99:  FAO Netherlands Conference on the Multi-Functional Characteristics  of Agriculture

FAO, Netherlands Government

Maastricht, The Netherlands

http://www.fao.org/mfcal/

Sept. ’99:  2^nd European Conference of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food & the Environment

Bonn, Germany

http://www.dainet.de/efita99/

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2000

Jan. 2000:  The Agricultural Knowledge Systems

OECD – Directorate for Food, Agriculture & Fisheries

Paris, France

http://www.oecd.org/agr/aks/index.htm

Jan. 2000:  2nd Conference of Directors and Representatives of Agricultural Knowledge Systems

OECD

Paris, France

http://www.oecd.org/agr/aks/index.htm

Feb. 2000:  Working Group on Agriculture & Environment

UNEP Regional Office for Europe

Strasbourg, France

Contact:  environment@coe.int

Feb. 2000:  Brainstorming on Agro-biodiversity

UNEP

Nairobi, Kenya

http://www.unep.org/unep/gef

Apr. 2000:  Promoting Sustainable Agriculture

Commission on Sustainable Development - Eighth Session

New York, USA

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri1.htm

May 2000:  4th International Conference on Chain Management in Agri-business & the Food Industry

EFITA

Wageningen, The Netherlands

http://www.sls.wau.nl/bk/congres

June 2000:  Committee on Agriculture

World Trade Organisation

Geneva, Switzerland

http://www.wto.org

5-8 June 2000:  Third Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference - ABIC 2000

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

12-16 June:  2000 International Conference on Science and Technology for Managing Plant Genetic Diversity in the 21^st Century 

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

July 2000:  Agricultural Engineering into the 3^rd Millennium

EFITA

Warwick, UK

http://www.eurageng.demon.co.uk/ageng2k.htm

25 Aug. - 2 Sept. 2000:  IFOAM 2000 

International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) 

Basel, Switzerland

http://www.ifoam2000.ch/ 

3-8 Sept. 2000:  Biotechnology 2000 – 11^th International Biotechnology Symposium

DECHEMA

Berlin, Germany. 

Sept. 2000:  Committee on Agriculture

World Trade Organisation

Geneva, Switzerland

http://www.wto.org

7-10 Sept. 2000:  First International Global Mountain Biodiveristy Associations Meeting

Rigi, Switzerland

http://www.unibas.ch/gmba/conference.html 

22-23 Sept. 2000:  International Conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy

http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidbiotech/bioconfpp/

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