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WOMEN'S CAUCUS:

Kwardua Vanderpuye said that poor and illiterate women were the caretakers of food crops and medicinal plants, the preservers of biodiversity, and carried knowledge through millennia. Women should be supported for their nurturing and sought after for their knowledge. New York should be the seat of the CSD to ensure maximum participation of NGOs as experts.