Chemicals and Waste Management Sharing of strategies

dc.conference.date	2012-11-22 - 2012-11-23	en
dc.conference.title	Major Groups and Stakeholders Asia Pacific Meeting 22-23 November 2012 Kathmandu, Nepal
dc.contributor.author	United Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organization	Governance Affairs Office
dc.coverage.spatial	Asia
dc.date.accessioned	2017-02-02T09:29:26Z
dc.date.available	2017-02-02T09:29:26Z
dc.date.issued	2012-11-22
dc.description	Context: Asia is mostly agriculture land • 925 million people are hungry and malnourished around the globe. Around 578 million of them are in Asia, with women and children as the most vulnerable. • Corporate Agriculture: chemical-intensive, monocropping; increased use and dependence on seeds, pesticides and fertilizers sold by seeds and agro-chemical TNCs – impacts highly on the biodiversity, access to land/resources; environment, and human health. • Corporate control: Expansion of the highly profitable input industry-i.e. the agrochemical TNCs ((who are also the world’s seed industry giants	en
dc.description.uri	https://www.unep.org/civil-society/Portals/24105/documents/RCMs/2012/ROAP/Session%207%20-%20Chemicals%20and%20Waste%20Management_PAN%20AP%20ARWC.pdf
dc.identifier.uri	https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/13629
dc.language	English
dc.subject.classification	Harmful substances
dc.title	Chemicals and Waste Management Sharing of strategies	en
dc.type	Meeting resource
wd.identifier.collection	Meeting Documents	en

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