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

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Sarah Cummings updated the WIKI page | 4 November 2016

Contact A team from ISS-FANSSA moderates the ROSA network. They can be reached by e-mail at: EuropeAid-ROSA@ec.europa.eu You can also contact individual members of the team, Sarah Cummings and Giorgia Mei , via their contact forms on Capacity4dev.

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2016 Global hunger index: Getting to zero hunger

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 3 November 2016

Produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and published in October 2016, the 2016 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report – the elevents in an annual series – presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional and global hunger. The IFPRI institute calculates GHI scores...

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Agri-chains and sustainable development: linking local and global dynamics

Giorgia MEI created a new event | 2 November 2016

12 Dec

From 12 December 2016 to 14 December 2016
in (France)

Organised by CIRAD

Organized by the Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement - CIRAD, the international scientific conference Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development: linking local and global dynamics will bring together up to 300 delegates, including key actors from...

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Climate change and food security: risks and responses

Angus Graham uploaded a new Document | 25 October 2016

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Climate change and food security: risks and responses. FAO, 2016. This report brings together evidence on the impacts of climate change on food security and nutrition. It shows how a cascade of impacts from ecosystems to livelihoods interacts with a series of vulnerabilities, undermining food...

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Inclusive value chains for sustainable agriculture and scaled up food security and nutrition outcomes

Sarah Cummings updated the Information | 23 October 2016

Published in September 2016 as a background document to a side-event ( CFS 2016/43/INF/21 ) in the framework of the Forty-third Session of the Committee on World Food Security , this report describes possible paths for the creation of nutrition-sensitive value chains (NSVCs) and provides some...

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Inclusive value chains for sustainable agriculture and scaled up food security and nutrition outcomes

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 21 October 2016

Published in September 2016 as a background document to a side-event ( CFS 2016/43/INF/21 ) in the framework of the Forty-third Session of the Committee on World Food Security , this report describes possible paths for the creation of nutrition-sensitive value chains (NSVCs) and provides some...

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Lessons learned: Experiences and good practices in the application of the Voluntary Guidelines

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 21 October 2016

Published in July 2016 by the Committee on World Food Security, the report Experiences and good practices in the use and application of the VGGT represents the second global stocktake on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context...

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Delivering social protection that nourishes: lessons from the food price crisis

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 20 October 2016

Published on 8 September 2016 by the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, this brief Delivering social protection that nourishes: lessons from the food price crisis summarizes the findings and recommendations of the Project Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility which...

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Climate change and food security: risks and responses

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 20 October 2016

By adopting the Sustainable Development Goals, the world has committed to ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition by 2030. But climate change is already undermining the livelihoods and food security of the most vulnerable populations. Ensuring food security and good nutrition...

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Videos: Improved Coffee Varieties in Tanzania

Capacity4dev Team updated the Information | 5 October 2016

Coffee is Tanzania’s largest export crop and most of the beans that leave the country are grown by smallholder farmers. But since the 1990s, coffee output has declined largely due to a series of diseases that slashed yields, increased operating costs for farmers and saw quality and coffee prices...

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