Events

PLAN

The third edition of the French Leadership course, PLAN, will be held in June 2010 in Marrakech (Morocco) in collaboration with Ibn Tofail University, and Hassan II – Mohammedia University.


UNU/CORNELL AFRICA SERIES

 

 

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Cornell University and the United Nations University held three symposia during the last two years. The intent of the symposium was to identify the GAPS in knowledge and policy limiting Sub-Saharan Africa from achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the alleviation of hunger, malnutrition, and poor health.  The problem is severe in that more Africans suffer from these problems today than in 1990, the beginning of the MDG-period, and the trends continue to worsen.  While much in known about the African food systems and African health and nutrition, the understanding of the interaction between food systems and health and nutrition is very deficient and the potential health gains from changes in the food system are frequently overlooked in policy design and implementation.  The Symposium recognized the complexity and multidisciplinary nature of the problem and its solutions and is aimed at faculty and students from many disciplines as well as other interested individuals from within and outside Cornell University.  It is hoped that the Symposium’s impact will continue to enhance the knowledge about African development in general and the interaction between food systems and health and nutrition in particular and thus be useful in national and international efforts to achieve the MDGs. 

 

1. “The African Food System and its Interactions with Health and Nutrition” held November 13, 2007 at the United Nations and November 15, 2007 at Cornell University.

 

2. "The Governance Dimension of the MDGs in Africa", held May 21, 2008:

http://www.ony.unu.edu/seminars/2008/Governancedimension/index.shtml

 

3. "The Social and Economic Dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa" was held on on 9 September, 2008.

 

 


 

 

To view the symposium webcast see archives: http://www.un.org/webcast/