Conference Themes

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  Water Security for Sustainable Development

  Substantial increase in water use efficiency across all sectors and sustainable withdrawal/supply of fresh water to address water scarcity.

  Protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management.

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  Renewable Energy Systems

  Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix

  Expansion of infrastructure and up-gradation of technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries

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  Food Security

  Enhancing agricultural productivity and income of small-scale food producers, in particular, women, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, through secure and equal access to productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment.

  Ensure sustainable food production systems and productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality.

  Maintaining genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed.

  Developing need-based farm mechanization and Post-harvest technologies of agricultural crops, enhancing milk and meat production, value addition, and developing sustainable production and marketing systems.

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  Poverty Alleviation

  Building resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters.

  Capacity building and training of farming community activist through managerial, financial and entrepreneurial capacity build-up for establishing local level enterprises based upon local agricultural produce and value addition process.

  Creation of sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions.