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

Webinar: Developing National Capacities in Food Security and Nutrition Information Systems in Sudan

Brian Lucas created a new event | 3 October 2014

15 Oct

From 15 October 2014
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Organised by FAO and LenCD

An EU project in Sudan is taking a systematic capacity development approach to analyze food security and malnutrition. This webinar summarizes the recent experience of this project and will provide for discussions on the applicability of this approach in other contexts and sectors.

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Group: Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation
Training on Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture (Germany)

Michael Schneider uploaded a new Document | 1 October 2014

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A high variability of annual rainfalls might have since long been a reality for farmers in various regions. Climatic changes can lead to a further rise of unpredictable conditions to which the agricultural enterprise and the livelihood systems need to adapt. A training of GIZ has been developed for...

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Group: Agriculture & Rural Development
Council Conclusions on an EU policy framework to assist developing countries in addressing food security challenges - 10 may 2010

Sarah Simpson updated the Document | 30 September 2014

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Relevant policy document of the Council of the European Union (10 May 2010) setting out an EU policy framework to assist developing countries in addressing food security challenges; it includes commitments dealing with the prioritization of women in development assistance activities for food...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Healthy Ecosystems Key to Better Food Security - UNEP and FAO sign MoU

Alexa Froger posted Information | 26 September 2014

UN Agencies Unite to Strengthen Support for Sustainable Ecosystems and to Implement New Sustainable Food Systems Programme [ibimage==28774==small== http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2796&ArticleID=11... UNEP MoU]New York, 24 September 2014 – Today the United Nations...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Food security and rural development

Katharine Mill updated the WIKI page | 19 September 2014

The EU supports a wide variety of projects contributing to food security and sustainable rural development, including a greener agriculture with sustainable practices and quality products and sustainable fishing and management of coastal areas. The main challenge in this context is to secure and...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Good news from the FAO on world food insecurity

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 18 September 2014

The State of Food Insecurity 2014 , produced by the FAO, was released on 16 September 2014 and is available for download on FAO website. It demonstrates that the hunger target of the Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of undernourished people in developing countries by 2015 – is...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Online discussion: Policy outreach and communications - what works for improving food security and nutrition at the country level?

Denise Melvin created a new event | 3 September 2014

02 Sep

From 2 September 2014 to 23 September 2014
Organised by FAO of the United Nations

Come join a new online discussion on policy outreach and communications - what works for improving food security and nutrition at the country level? http://www.fao.org/fsnforum The challenge Technical notes, research reports, policy briefs, etc. on food security and nutrition (FSN) are often...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Arnold Jacques de Dixmude commented on a wiki page | 27 August 2014

Biodiversity for Life (B4Life)

New dissemination material about B4Life (brochure, leaflet and poster) to be issued soon !

Group: Biodiversity for Life
World Humanitarian Day

Diane KELECOM updated the Photo album | 19 August 2014

The World Food Programme (WFP) is joining other organizations and agencies around the globe in advance of World Humanitarian Day on 19 August to bring attention to the heroes who risk their lives every day to help people in need.

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World Humanitarian Day

Beatrix Senoner created a new Photo album | 18 August 2014

The World Food Programme (WFP) is joining other organizations and agencies around the globe in advance of World Humanitarian Day on 19 August to bring attention to the heroes who risk their lives every day to help people in need.

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA

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