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Two Invigorating Weeks at the United Nations

By CARMEN GLORIA ARRIAGADA

Panoramic View of General Assembly in session during the Opening of the CSD-16 High Level Segment on May 14

Monday, May 5, 2008 was a very special day.  It marked the beginning of a unique two-week period of presentations and intensive discussions between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government representatives and civil society groups at the Sixteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16) held at United Nations (UN) Headquarters, New York. With agriculture as one of its major themes, CSD-16 provided a perfect forum to bring to the fore the issue of the escalating rate of suicide among farmers made vulnerable by a host of socio-economic factors  in general, and Amma’s Farmer Relief Project in particular. Continue…