Food & Nutrition Security

This topic refers to all issues related to Food Security as defined in the Rome declaration in 1996: "Food security exists - at the individual, family, national and global levels - when all people at all times have physical and economic access to enough safe and nutritious food in order to cover their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life".

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Acute undernutrition - Fisheries and food security - Food accessibility & prices - Food aid - Food availability - Food information systems - Food quality - Food safety - Food Security Governance - Food Social transfers - Food utilisation - Food waste - Livestock and food security - Micro nutrients supplementation - Nutrition monitoring - Nutrition policy - Nutrition programmes - Nutrition sensitive intervention - Obesity

Ebola's impact on food security in West Africa: a new EC report

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 30 January 2015

A recent report Impact of the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak on food security from the EC's Joint Research Centre, published in December 2014, considers that the 2014 Ebola outbreak has had significant adverse effects on food security in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the countries...

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Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 30 January 2015

The report Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), published in January 2015, examines evidence from five case studies of insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists. A few common features...

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Farmers across Africa embrace climate-smart innovations

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 23 January 2015

A new book from CTA and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security ( CCAFS ) is raising awareness of innovative agricultural practices for coping with climate change in Africa. Rising temperatures and changes in weather patterns are significantly shaping the face of...

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Farmers across Africa embrace climate-smart innovations

Lebo Mofolo posted Information | 22 January 2015

A new book from CTA and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security ( CCAFS ) is raising awareness of innovative agricultural practices for coping with climate change in Africa. Rising temperatures and changes in weather patterns are significantly shaping the face of...

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Feeding the World Summit

Capacity4dev Team updated the event | 21 January 2015

13 Feb

From 13 February 2014
in London (United Kingdom)

Organised by Farming First, UK, and The Economist magazine

The global population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. Alongside limited agricultural land, water security issues, infrastructure and biodiversity challenges coupled with climate change, we face an uncertain future for food security. What are leading policymakers, government officials,...

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Deuxième réunion du Comité de gestion du Fonds Bêkou

Ileana Nicolau updated the Information | 20 January 2015

Chers membres, Comme vous le savez peut-être, aujourd'hui s'est tenue la deuxième réunion du Comité de gestion du Fonds Bêkou. Les fiches d'action des projets santé et réhabilitation urbaine ont été modifiées pour mieux répondre aux besoins du terrain. Par ailleurs, deux nouvelles fiches d'action...

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Résumé de la fiche d'action - Projet sécurité alimentaire

Ileana Nicolau uploaded a new Document | 20 January 2015

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L’objectif global de l’action est l'amélioration durable de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle en République centrafricaine à travers un appui à la relance de la production alimentaire, de la gestion des enjeux intercommunautaires et du renforcement des capacités institutionnelles.

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Humanitarian Innovators Network Lad and Co-Design Workshop

Andrew Bower created a new event | 16 January 2015

20 Jan

From 20 January 2015 to 23 January 2015
in New York (United States)

Organised by UNICEF

UNICEF has refined its approach to humanitarian innovation in the context of ongoing efforts to strengthening its humanitarian action; including a commitment to maintaining a strong cadre of humanitarian innovators within the organization who are familiar with the innovations being used in UNICEF’s...

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Julia Stewart-David commented on an event | 13 January 2015

Humanitarian Innovation Conference 'Facilitating Innovation'

Great that our colleagues in Oxford have decided to build on the success of last year's gathering focussing on creating an enabling environment.

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Humanitarian Innovation Conference 'Facilitating Innovation'

Andrew Bower created a new event | 13 January 2015

17 Jul

From 17 July 2015 to 18 July 2015
in Oxford (United Kingdom)

Organised by The Humanitarian Innovation Project, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development

Following the success of the inaugural Humanitarian Innovation Conference, the Humanitarian Innovation Project announces that #HIP2015 [1] will again take place in Oxford in July 2015. The 2015 conference theme is ‘facilitating innovation’. As interest and dialogue around humanitarian innovation...

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