Their senior staff are not part of the UN's main decision-making fora.
These actions, however, move scientists from research sites on the bay into public decision-making fora, requiring the translation and obfuscation of the values underpinning their work into forms socially acceptable in bureaucratic contexts.
Male & female farmers must be given equal access to climate information, training & decision-making fora.
The NAPs take different forms but, they are channels to review and spread information from the research projects to relevant other officials and decision-making fora within the country.
The need to reform decision-making fora and processes [ 21, 24], representative of the transboundary nature of political constituencies and their interests, has been important debates in this literature.
These claims are, in terms of Nagel's 'objectivity', more objective (i.e. less position-dependent) than decisions made in and priorities set by closed 'epistemic communities' or decision-making fora, in which 'transpositional' views are either neglected or underrepresented.
The right to adequate food, as understood today, carries with it obligations on the part of states to protect individuals' autonomy and capacity to participate in public decision-making fora, especially when other participants are more powerful, assertive or aggressive.
These actions can be either top-down, i.e. facilitated by actors in higher policy and decision-making fora, but equally - and potentially more important - they can be bottom-up, that is promoted and enforced by the health workforce, for instance by means of addressing the problem via professional, scientific and/or societal action.
Not only are young people the generation who will be inheriting the results of these decisions, but they also have the right to participate in decision-making fora, to share their experiences and solutions with adult leaders, and engage in local-level adaptation initiatives in accordance with their rights to expression under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) General Comment 12.
This infographic shows women's access to financial and productive resources, decision-making fora, knowledge, technology, land, water, services and markets, illustrating the link to food security and climate change.
