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

How to Fight Illegal Fishing

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 28 November 2014

What illicit trade is worth up to $23 billion each year, threatens the environment, food security and the economies of developing countries, and is now the subject of a special taskforce at INTERPOL? The answer is illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU).

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Photos: Mission de l'équipe du Fonds Bêkou en RCA - novembre 2014

Ileana Nicolau created a new Photo album | 24 November 2014

Les représentants du fonds fiduciaire Bêkou ont été en mission à Bangui du 11 au 18 novembre 2014 afin d'assurer la mise en œuvre des premiers projets adoptés lors de la réunion du Conseil de gestion le 29 septembre dernier, dans les secteurs de la santé, du genre et de la réhabilitation urbaine,...

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Diane KELECOM commented on an article | 4 November 2014

Sweet Solutions: How Honey Aids Development

Today, Elizabeth Truss, the UK's Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, announced a 10-year plan to help bees and pollinators. Comparing bees to football stars, she said: “Their work is valued at around £430m – four times the salaries of the top 10 players in the Premier League...
Pastoralism and Conflict

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 29 October 2014

Pastoralists can get a bad name. These semi-nomadic communities are sometimes portrayed as living an outmoded way of life, feuding and degrading the environment with their herd before moving to a new area. The reality is different. The European Commission supports pastoralism as one of the most...

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Excess production of foods: brings what - Positive or negative impact for farmers???

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 24 October 2014

Recently in Bangladesh, some agricultural farmers showed their agitation against the government by through tons of paddy in the main road of capital city. The cause of their grief was that, they couldn’t make profit by selling paddy due to the high production costs and also excess production of...

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Side-event on B4Life at CBD COP12 in Pyeongchang.

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude updated the Information | 17 October 2014

Advertising the side-event at Cop12 On Thursday 16 October, the European Commission, through its Development Cooperation Office EuropeAid, hosted a side-event at the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Pyeongchang, South-Korea. The event was...

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The hidden costs and benefits of eco-agri-food systems, by Pavan Sukhdev

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude uploaded a new Document | 17 October 2014

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Side-event on B4Life at CBD COP12 in Pyeongchang.

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude posted Information | 16 October 2014

Advertising the side-event at Cop12 On Thursday 16 October, the European Commission, through its Development Cooperation Office EuropeAid, hosted a side-event at the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Pyeongchang, South-Korea. The event was...

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Sweet Solutions: How Honey Aids Development

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 13 October 2014

Wherever you are in the world, beekeeping is a guaranteed source of income. The international market varies but in developing countries honey production remains a vital means of subsistence. It supports the environment too, but plummeting bee numbers now jeopardise food chains in developing and...

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Webinar on Food Security Wednesday 15 October 2014

Daniele Di Pillo posted Information | 3 October 2014

Developing National Capacities in Food Security and Nutrition Information Systems in Sudan Wednesday 15 October 2014, 13:00 - 14:00 UTC/GMT (09:00 New York, 14:00 UK and West Africa, 15:00 Europe and Central Africa, 16:00 East Africa) http://www.lencd.org/event/2014/food-security-nutrition-...

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