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5 July 2008: 14th UN International Day of Cooperatives "Confronting climate change through cooperative enterprise"   FAO and ILO with other members of the Committee for the promotion and advancement of cooperatives (COPAC) celebrate the 14th UN International Day of Cooperatives which this year focuses on climate change. Agricultural cooperatives in different parts of...

More than 3,000 government, worker and employer leaders are meeting in Geneva to discuss a wide range of issues including rural poverty reduction, the latest developments in labour rights and enhancing skills development. The Conference will also consider the strategic challenges faced in obtaining decent work, and will host a...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), will launch the joint website “Food, Agriculture & Decent Work” ( www.fao-ilo.org ) on the occasion of the International Labour Conference’s 97th Session, 28 May - 13 June 2008. “Food, Agriculture and Decent Work” is...

The upcoming High-Level Conference on World Food Security, to take place next week in Rome (3-5 June), offers a historic chance to re-launch the fight against hunger and poverty and boost agricultural production in developing countries, FAO said today. In a key policy document specially prepared for the Summit, FAO...

In a recent letter addressed to Jacques Diouf, Director General of the FAO, the Director General of ILO Juan Somavia highlighted the complementary priorities of the two organizations in promoting food security and expressed ILO’s interest in supporting recent efforts by FAO on the topic. The ILO’s Decent Work Agenda,...