Resources
The Quaker United Nations Office conducts in-depth research and analysis on a range of topics relating to our core areas of focus and in conjunction with various partners. Search this archive or filter by topic to access our publications, including research papers, annual reports, significant statements of our positions, and more.
FWCC Q&A with Susan Bragdon on Agrobiodiversity
The World Office for the Friends World Committee for Consultation has added a Q&A with Susan Bragdon, Representative, Food &...
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Reinvigorating the Public Sector: The Case of Food Security, Small-Scale Farmers, Trade and Intellectual Property Rules
In this recently published paper in the Society for International Development (2017), QUNO’s Food & Sustainability Representative Susan H. Bragdon...
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QUNO Submits Written Input to Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food in Humanitarian Contexts
On March 31, 2017, QUNO’s Food & Sustainability and Peace and Disarmament Programmes, submitted a joint contribution to Special Rapporteur...
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QUNO Submits Written Input to the Berlin Charter on Rural Development and Food Security
On March 31, 2017, QUNO’s Food & Sustainability Programme, submitted a written contribution to the Berlin Charter on rural development...
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The Time is Ripe for Governments to Strengthen Sustainable and Food-Secure Farming
In March 2017, QUNO’s Food & Sustainability Programme published the call to action paper entitled The Time is Ripe for...
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Foundations of Food Security โ Ensuring Support to Small-scale Farmers Managing Agricultural Biodiversity
This paper, discusses the access and benefit-sharing (ABS) agreements established by the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food...
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QUNO submits written statements to the 34th session of the UN HRC
QUNO's Human Rights & Refugees, Food & Sustainability, and Peace & Disarmament programmes each submitted written statements to the 34th...
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Project Brief: An Interactive Trade Policy Tool
QUNO has been developing an online tool to help explain the complex relationship between food security measures and the World...
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Oral Statement on the role of Small Scale Farmers and the Right to Food at the 28th session of the HRC
QUNO delivered an oral statement in the 28th session of the Human Rights Council at the Clustered Interactive Dialogue with the Special...
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Trade Liberalization and Food Security: Examining the Linkages
The paper is released as part of our project working towards a New Framework for Trade & Investment in Agriculture,...
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QUNO and Minute 36
Minute 36 (the Canterbury Commitment) challenges Quakers to seek a sustainable, equitable and peaceful life on Earth. Britain Yearly Meeting is responding...
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The right to food and its relation to trade and investment rules, written statement to the 25th session of the Human Rights Council
In this written statement by Friends World Committee for Consultation to the 25th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC),...
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NFTIA Draft Mapping of Alternative Proposals
QUNO believes that by placing people’s livelihoods and dignity alongside sustainability and food security as the central objectives of agriculture trade, it...
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