Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Hello, I am Felix Dodds former Chair of the United Nations Department for Public Inormation 64th NGO Conference Sustainable Communities - Responsive Citizens (2011) and now helping Katerva with their Sustainability Awards this year. I would like to thank the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs for their support for this event to be hosted this year at the UN Annual Ministerial Review and also thank the President of the UN Economic and Social Council Ambassador Nestor Osorio (Colombia) for agreeing to present these awards. Colombia play a critical role in the Rio+20 Conference last year promoting the Sustainable Development Goals and continues to give leadership. Ambassador Osoiro:  " It is a great pleasure for me to be present here today for 2012 Katerva Awards Ceremony.   Thank you for inviting me to present the Awards and I would like to offer my thanks to the organizers for choosing to the occasion of the Ministerial Session of the Council to mak...

THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (ECOSOC) DISCUSSION OF INTEGRATING SOCIAL MEDIA DIMENSIONS, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY "To feed nine billion people by 2050, warns an expert we need to produce more in 40 years than in the last eight millennia " The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) discussed today how to integrate the social, economic and ecological sustainability.   Organized around two round tables on "the convergence of policies for sustainable development" and "intensifying efforts for sustainable development", the day of the debate was an opportunity to emphasize the importance of science and innovation to improve food productivity of a planet where 870 million people suffer from hunger and he will feed 9 billion people by 2050.   Research Director of the World Agroforestry Centre, Philip  Dobie,  said that the production of food for the next 40 years would be higher than what has been produced during the last eight millenni...