The European Commission, the Government of Spain and the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development have convened the Third European Forum on Rural Development, which will take place in Palencia (Spain) from 29 March to 1 April 2011.

Additional information about the event can be found in the Forum's website at http://www.ruralforum.info/menu-1-en.php

This article focuses on the global concentration of agribusiness and how this is crucial to the future of the food systems of developing (and poor, non-developing) countries.

Starting from Open theatre, Kathmandu the rally of 1000 women traveled through Ratnapark, Bhotebahal, Kuleshwor and reached at CPN (UML) office, Balkhu Kathmandu. The national land rights movement which started from 15th March, 2011 was followed upon with the full fervor all the participants on the 3rd day of movement also. All of them were tirelessly reciting the slogans. Addressing the movement, Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal, and other political party representative including CPN-UML Vice Chairman Bamdev Gautam, UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal responded to the mass.

Land policies in Africa have often overlooked the interests of certain social groups. In some areas, traditional access and ownership rights for women, migrants and pastoralists have been ignored or reduced. The rise of HIV/AIDS in the region has created new social groups who are vulnerable to discrimination by land policies. As new policies are formed in the region, it is important to consider why these groups have been excluded. This article help to ensure that future policies represent these groups more fairly.

The article asserts that the billions of dollars promised to fund programs to boost small-scale agriculture in developing countries are unlikely to succeed in feeding the world's increasing populations,and this is due not only to increasing populations and changing environments, but also to little "intellectual commitment" to the ubiquitous small-scale "mixed" farmers, specially in Africa and Asia.

This article argues that greater investments in agriculture and rural development will boost economic growth and reduce poverty in Africa, both of which are critical to achieving the global target of halving poverty and hunger by 2015.

The establishment of this working group by the Human Rights Council (September 2010) was a milestone on the long road towards gender equality . Despite many constitutional and legal reforms to integrate women’s human rights fully into domestic law, progress is insufficient and discrimination against women persists in both public and private spheres, in conflict and in peace, transcending national, cultural and religious boundaries and fuelled by patriarchal stereotyping and power imbalances - which is mirrored in laws, policies and practice.

Australian actress and singer Delta Goodrem is the latest star to throw her support behind a global campaign to bring an end to chronic hunger.