* On 14 October 2011 Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox resigned from the Cabinet after he " mistakenly allowed the distinction between personal interest and government activities to become blurred " over his friendship with Adam Werrity.

The Secretary General of the Council is head of the General Secretariat, Uwe Corsepius since June 2011 ; previously the post holder was also the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, President of the European Defence Agency and the Western European Union.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.

President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, sent that certification to Congress on July 22, 2011, which set the end of DADT for September 20, 2011.

To some extent these critics of Major's policy were vindicated when in an article published in 2011, the then Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind accepted that the arms embargo was a ' serious mistake ' by the UN.

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, visited Burma in November – December 2011.

* 1925 – Warren Christopher, American diplomat and 63rd United States Secretary of State ( d. 2011 )

Levi Fragell, former Secretary General of the Norwegian Humanist Association and former president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, at the World Humanist Congress 2011 in Oslo

Its primary law-making powers were enhanced following a Yes vote in the referendum on 3 March 2011, making it possible for it to legislate without having to consult the UK parliament, nor the Secretary of State for Wales in the 20 areas that are devolved.

He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011.

The current Secretary is Leon Panetta who assumed office July 1, 2011.

Gary Locke, former Commerce Secretary resigned on August 11, 2011, to become the United States Ambassador to China.

On May 31, 2011, President Obama nominated John E. Bryson to be U. S. Secretary of Commerce.

He was sworn in as the 37th United States Secretary of Commerce on October 21, 2011.

In July 2011, the Department was rocked by the resignation of Ray Jefferson, Assistant Secretary for VETS, in a contracting scandal.

As part of the UK's response to this incident the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, announced on 30 November 2011 that the United Kingdom had shut the embassy in Tehran and recalled all diplomatic staff.

The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011.

In 1998 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour, a UK national honour bestowed for outstanding achievement in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry or religion ( fellow recipients included in 2011 Douglas Hurd, former British Foreign Secretary, Norman Tebbit, former Secretary of State of Employment under Margaret Thatcher, and former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major ).

February 2011 voter registration statistics from the Secretary Of State shows the city's likely voters to be:

According to the Georgia Secretary of State, as of November 1, 2011, Forest Park had 6, 236 active voters on the rolls, or 5 % of all Clayton County, Georgia voters:

* Leon Panetta, current United States Secretary of Defense, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( 2009 – 2011 ), former Congressman ( 1977 – 1993 ) and White House Chief of Staff ( 1994 – 1997 ).

The Village of Waterville, by proclamation of the Ohio Secretary of State, became a City on April 29, 2011!

In February 2011, The New York Times reported that documents filed in a lawsuit state that Ailes urged former employee and current publisher Judith Regan to lie to federal investigators regarding her affair with New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, nominated for Department of Homeland Security Secretary.

In May 2011, the Israeli Minister of Agriculture visited Sri Lanka with an agro-business delegation to promote cooperation between the two countries.

, members of the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders ( with their term end dates and committee chairmanships listed in parentheses ) are Freeholder Director William Whelan ( 2011 ; Finance ), Deputy Freeholder Director James A. Dunkins ( 2011 ; Health ), Samuel L. Fiocchi, Sr. ( 2013 ; Public Works ), Jane Jannarone ( 2011 ; Public Affairs, Cultural & History ), Carl W. Kirstein ( 2013 ; Public Property & Personnel ) and Thomas Sheppard ( 2012 ; Agriculture ).

* Jim Vickerman ( born 1931 ) long-time Minnesota State Senator, first elected in 1986, chaired the Senate's State and Local Government Operations, Rules and Administration, and Agriculture, Veterans and Gaming committees before retiring in 2011.

The most widely known food pyramid was introduced by the United States Department of Agriculture in the year 1992, was updated in 2005, and then replaced in 2011.

The CGIAR Fund supports 15 international agricultural research centers such as the International Rice Research Institute ( IRRI ), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture ( IITA ), the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ), the International Food Policy Research Institute ( IFPRI ) and the Center for International Forestry Research ( CIFOR ) that form the CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers and are located in various countries worldwide ( as of 2011 ), The centers carry out research on various agricultural commodities, livestock, fish, water, forestry, policy and management.

In 2011, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, it seems clear that no single factor alone is responsible for the malady, however honey bees are thought to possibly be affected by such chemicals which are known to work their way through the plant up into the flowers and leave residues in the nectar and pollen which bees forage on.

In May 2011, the Israeli Minister of Agriculture visited Sri Lanka with an agro-business delegation to promote cooperation between the two countries.

Adam H. Putnam ( born July 31, 1974 ) is the current Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and the former U. S. Representative for, serving from 2001 until 2011.

Armstrong joined the Cal Poly campus in 2011 after tenure at North Carolina State University ( faculty ), Purdue University ( Head of the Department of Animal Sciences ) and Michigan State University ( Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources ).

* The University of Kassel had a Department of Biodynamic Agriculture from 2006 to March 2011.

On 14 October 2010, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announced that field activities in the decades-long, worldwide campaign to eradicate the disease were ending, paving the way for a formal declaration in June 2011 of the global eradication of rinderpest.

During her career in government, she held the Cabinet positions of Tánaiste ( 2008 – 11 ), Minister for Health and Children ( 2011 ), Minister for Education and Skills ( 2010 – 11 ), Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment ( 2008 – 10 ), Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food ( 2004 – 08 ), and Minister for Social and Family Affairs ( 2002 – 04 ).

In Northern Ireland at the end of 2011, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ’ s Forest Service began felling 14 hectares of affected Larch woodland at Moneyscalp, on the edge of Tollymore Forest Park in County Down.

Long March Space @ Art Beijing 2011 Contemporary Art Fair: April-May 2011, National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing

* 2011 / 2012-Year of Agriculture

In October 2011, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

* Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, Peasants Under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

In February 2011, the next 2020 conference will be held in New Delhi, India on the topic: Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health

The current Secretary of Agriculture is Dale Rodman, who was appointed by Governor Sam Brownback in 2011.

In the summer of 2011, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture introduced tiny, stingless wasps in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area as a biological control agent for the emerald ash borer.

Following his service in Congress, he was appointed as Commissioner of the Colorado Department of Agriculture in the Cabinet of Governor John Hickenlooper in 2011.