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International Virtual Congress on Green Economy and Socio-productive Inclusion: The Role of Family Agriculture

16.04.2012

The International Virtual Congress on Green Economy and Socio-productive Inclusion, will be held up to the 30th April. The Virtual Congress is organized by Brazil's Ministry of Agricultural Development, with support from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and it is available at the follow link: http://www.congressorio20.org.br/sitio/ . The Congress aims at providing a platform for civil society and the general public to discuss sustainable development issues related to family agriculture with experts, researchers and public sector managers. The discussions will be summarized in a special report that will be presented at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).       

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