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

2015-2016 El Niño: Early action and response for agriculture, food security and nutrition

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 3 June 2016

Published in May 2016, this publication from the FAO provides an overview of the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon on agriculture and food security. El Niño is the warming of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, which occurs roughly every two to seven years, lasting from six to 24...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
European Development Days 2016: European contribution to global food and nutrition security

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 2 June 2016

15 Jun

From 15 June 2016
in Brussels 1000 (Belgium)

Organised by Government of the Netherlands, European Commission

This session includes a panel with David Nabarro, Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and representatives from civil society, the private sector and the European Commission. Participants will react on the newest data on the European contribution to Global Food and...

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Resilience, a buzzword or a long-term commitment?

Lia Beyeler posted Information | 4 May 2016

After three years of consultations following the adoption of a regional roadmap for the Global Alliance for Resilience (AGIR) , the West African region can proudly announce that all 17 Sahelian and West African countries have embarked on an ambitious process to define their national resilience...

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Marché Miskine: la vie reprend peu à peu au coeur de Bangui

María José Agejas posted Information | 4 May 2016

La vie reprend peu à peu au marché Miskine. Au cours des dernières années, en raison du conflit, le marché a été presque vide. " Les balles tombaient ici pendant la guerre . Le marché a été vidé et les commerçants sont partis vers le marché Combattants, ou au Petebo ". Philomène, 45 ans, vend des...

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Sahel, Plan d’action pour un engagement renouvelé 2015-2020

Lia Beyeler updated the Information | 28 April 2016

Nouveau sur le blog du Club du Sahel et de l'Afrique de l'Ouest: Entretien avec M. Jean-Pierre Marcelli, Directeur du Département Afrique, Agence française de développement (AFD). M. Marcelli nous parle du Plan d’action pour un engagement renouvelé 2015-2020 au Sahel. New on the Sahel and West...

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Sahel, Plan d’action pour un engagement renouvelé 2015-2020

Lia Beyeler posted Information | 27 April 2016

Nouveau sur le blog du Club du Sahel et de l'Afrique de l'Ouest: Entretien avec M. Jean-Pierre Marcelli, Directeur du Département Afrique, Agence française de développement (AFD). M. Marcelli nous parle du Plan d’action pour un engagement renouvelé 2015-2020 au Sahel. New on the Sahel and West...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Liberia – Strengthening Integrated Systems for Management and Prevention of Malnutrition in Greater Monrovia

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 22 April 2016

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In April 2011, Action Contre la Faim (ACF) launched an integrated food security and nutrition programme with the aim of reducing of morbidity and mortality from malnutrition in children under five years old in Greater Monrovia. The project focused on three main levels of intervention: - Community...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Guinea – “Porridge Mums”: Combining Income Generating Activities and Undernutrition Prevention

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 22 April 2016

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As part of its work to promote Food Security and Livelihoods interventions aiming at preventing undernutrition, ACF has produced a set of practical case studies based on recent and current nutrition-sensitive interventions in different contexts. This case study presents an innovative intervention...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Pakistan – Nutrition Mainstreaming in Flood Response Programming

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 22 April 2016

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As part of its work to promote Food Security and Livelihoods interventions aiming at preventing undernutrition, ACF has produced a set of practical case studies based on recent and current nutrition-sensitive interventions in different contexts. This case study presents an innovative intervention...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Experts Meet to Solve Caribbean Fishing Crisis

David Walker posted Information | 21 April 2016

Lazarus Alfred has been fishing since he was 17-years-old. He knows the struggles of life at sea. But while he says there are occasional good days, he says it has become harder and harder to earn a living from the ocean. Less fish, warmer temperatures and more intense storms are all contributing...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies

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