This High-Level Meeting will serve as an intersessional Ministerial-level meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. It will consider how African governments and other stakeholders can take forceful policy and practical measures, in co-operation with the international community and development partners, to revitalize African agriculture and the broader rural economies in ways that are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.  

dates: 9-10 February 2009   location: Windhoek, Namibia   contact: Registration information   www: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sdissues/africa/events/index.htm