Process for agriculture assessment clarifiedAt a meeting in Dublin in early November the World Bank discussed the process for its new global assessment of agricultural science and technology. A six month discussion period has just started to see whether and how the two year review process could be done. Civil society groups successfully argued - using the precedent of the World Commission on Dams - that more representatives of poor and marginalised rural communities should be on the steering committee which will decide next year how to proceed. Civil society statement, November 2002 This text may be freely used providing the source is credited. This page is: <http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=16110> Published: 26 November 2002 , last edited: 15 July 2003 Viewings since posted: 2048 |
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