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

Disaster Risk reduction for food nutrition and security, Key practices for DRR implementers

Rosalba Vendemia updated the Document | 7 May 2018

drr_for_food_nutrition_and_security_for_drr_implementers.pdf 1.82 MB

COOPI- FAO/SAIO/2014. This brief is part of the series, A Field Guide for Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa: Key Practices for DRR Implementers, coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO Subregional Office for Disaster Risk Reduction/Management for Southern Africa, with...

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Group: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean funded by ECHO
Fiche projet RESIANE

Kiswendsida Noëlie KOURAOGO updated the Document | 2 May 2018

plaquette_consortiumresiane.pdf 389.2 KB

Ce projet est mis en œuvre par quatre (04) partenaires composés d’Action contre la Faim – GRET – HELVETAS - Tin Tua avec la participation active des autorités communales de même que les services techniques déconcentrés de l’Etat. Il vise le renforcement durable et intégré de la résilience des...

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Group: Coopération UE au Burkina Faso
Disaster Risk reduction for food nutrition and security, Key practices for DRR implementers

Rosalba Vendemia updated the Document | 2 May 2018

drr_for_food_nutrition_and_security_for_drr_implementers.pdf 1.82 MB

COOPI- FAO/SAIO/2014. This brief is part of the series, A Field Guide for Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa: Key Practices for DRR Implementers, coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO Subregional Office for Disaster Risk Reduction/Management for Southern Africa, with...

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Group: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean funded by ECHO
Fiche projet RESIANE

Kiswendsida Noëlie KOURAOGO uploaded a new Document | 30 April 2018

plaquette_consortiumresiane.pdf 389.2 KB

Ce projet est mis en œuvre par quatre (04) partenaires composés d’Action contre la Faim – GRET – HELVETAS - Tin Tua avec la participation active des autorités communales de même que les services techniques déconcentrés de l’Etat. Il vise le renforcement durable et intégré de la résilience des...

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Group: Coopération UE au Burkina Faso
The Global Food Crisis Report 2018 at DEVCO Info point on 18th April

Laura Gualdi updated the Information | 20 April 2018

Following the launch of the Global Report on Food Crises 2018 in Rome on 22 nd March 2018 and in Geneva on 12 th April 2018 , DEVCO C1 organized on 18 th April 2018 an InfoPoint Lunchtime Conference focused on the results of this joint analysis on global food crises. Deputy Head of Unit C1 Bernard...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
State of the World Report 2015: Food Fortification (SYNOPSIS REPORT)

Farah Abou Merhi updated the Document | 19 April 2018

2017-01-25mnforum-fortificationreport-updated_copy.pdf 2.93 MB

The synopsis report on large-scale food fortification as published by the Micronutrient Forum last year Micronutrient deficiencies – and the negative consequences of a diet lacking in essential vitamins and minerals/trace elements – continue to pose significant public health problems for many low-...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Biofortification: The Evidence

Farah Abou Merhi updated the Document | 19 April 2018

harvestplus_evidence_on_bb_february2018.pdf 271.99 KB

An overview prepared by Harvest Plus on the evidence related to biofortification (February 2018) HarvestPlus leads a global effort to develop and scale up micronutrient-rich staple food crops. The process used is known as biofortification: a cost-effective, sustainable solution that uses...

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Complementary Feeding Diets Made of Local Foods Can Be Optimized

Farah Abou Merhi updated the Document | 19 April 2018

fnb_complementary_feeding_diets_made_of_local_foods_can_be_optimized.pdf 330.99 KB

A paper in the Food & Nutrition Bulletin on the nutritional deficiencies of unfortified complementary feeding diets (in press) Abstract Background: The question whether diets composed of local foods can meet recommended nutrient intakes in children aged 6 to 23 months living in low- and middle-...

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Improving Complementary Feeding: Assessing Public and Private Sector Business Models

Farah Abou Merhi updated the Document | 19 April 2018

gain-improving_complementary_feeding-whitepaper1-febr2015.pdf 3.41 MB

A GAIN report on improving complementary feeding: assessing public and private sector business models with a compilation of evidence. Context This paper condenses evidence and learning from a portfolio of innovative private and public models that have sought to improve the consumption of nutrient...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Brussels Briefing n. 50: “Growing food in the cities: Successes and new opportunities”

Laura Gualdi updated the event | 9 April 2018

10 Apr

From 10 April 2018
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), in collaboration with the European Commission / DEVCO, the ACP Secretariat, and CONCORD.

The next Brussels Development Briefing no. 50 on “Growing food in the cities: Successes and new opportunities” will take place on 10 April 2018 from 09h00 to 13h00, ACP Secretariat, Brussels 451 Avenue Georges Henri, 1200 Brussels. This Briefing is organised by the ACP-EU Technical Centre for...

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