PEDA advocacy booklet : the nexus
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2001-11Author(s)/Corporate Author (s)
United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Food Security and Sustainable Development Division;Metadata
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During the past three decades, there has been a discerned shift in focus from dealing with
sectoral issues to considerations of linkages. This paradigm shift is best exemplified by the
discussions that have dominated major United Nations Conferences since the 1970s on
Population, Environment and Food Security.
At the United Nations Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972,
discussions were mainly on the environment. By the time of the United Nations Conference
on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, the links between
rapid population growth, environmental degradation and poverty were generally
acknowledged. The conference, dubbed the Earth Summit, also popularized the concept of
sustainable development, which raised the issue of intergenerational equity with respect to
the use of natural resources. The issue of sustainability and the need to adopt a holistic
approach to development problems were also underlined in the UN global conferences in
Copenhagen, Cairo, Beijing and Rome where social, population, gender and food issues
were discussed respectively.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (2001-11). PEDA advocacy booklet : the nexus. Booklet on population, environment, development and agriculture (PEDA) model; 12. 12, iii, 17 p. :. Addis Ababa :. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/5162”Serial Title
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