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

Agriculture, food and jobs in West Africa

Lia Beyeler posted Information | 5 April 2018

New paper in the SWAC/OECD West African Papers series: The food economy is the biggest employer in West Africa accounting for 66% of total employment. While the majority of food economy jobs are in agriculture, off-farm employment in food-related manufacturing and service activities is increasing...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Food Crisis Prevention Network restricted meeting

Lia Beyeler created a new event | 5 April 2018

16 Apr

From 16 April 2018 to 18 April 2018
in (France)

Organised by Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) and the Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SWAC/OECD)

The 2017-18 agro-pastoral campaign in the 17 Sahelian and West African countries was mixed. A difficult end to the rainy season had serious implications for crops and fodder production. The regional consultation of the Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA - Niamey, February 2018) confirmed a...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Cordaid-PRO-ACT Project Presentation QRM 8 - EUD Juba -21 Mar 18 2018

Tayo Alabi uploaded a new Document | 29 March 2018

cordaid-pro-act_project_presentation_qrm_8_-_eud_juba_18_-_21_mar_2018.pptx 2.19 MB

Cordaid-PRO-ACT Project Presentation QRM 8 - EUD Juba -18-22 March 2018

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Group: South Sudan Rural Development Group
Outcome of the Nutrition Seminar 19-21 March 2018

Farah Abou Merhi updated the WIKI page | 26 March 2018

Nutrition Seminar: The European Commission's Action Plan on Nutrition – Ensuring Quality Implementation, 19 th -21 st of March 2018 " The European Commission needs to broaden the focus of its nutrition priorities beyond stunting and wasting, to consider all forms of malnutrition. The human and...

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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”

Lebo Mofolo created a new event | 26 March 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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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Brussels Briefing n. 50: “Growing food in the cities: Successes and new opportunities”

Lebo Mofolo posted Information | 26 March 2018

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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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Eating Responsibly: A Model for Environmentally Conscientious Events

Sarah Simpson updated the news | 23 March 2018

Over three frigid January days in Prague, the Eat Responsibly project gathered for a closing conference. For organisers it was not only an opportunity to discuss the achievements of the previous three years and share lessons learned, but to demonstrate at every meal and coffee break, what it really...

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Programme: EU DEAR Programme: Development Education and Awareness Raising
Inspiring Children to Lead the Way on Responsible Eating

Sarah Simpson updated the news | 22 March 2018

Since Isaac Sam Camilleri took part in a European Commission supported project to educate children on responsible food consumption, he and many other kids in Malta, grow, forage or help prepare their own nutritious school lunches. They’re among tens of thousands of kids across Europe taking...

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Programme: EU DEAR Programme: Development Education and Awareness Raising
Nutrition seminar 19-21 March - "front-loading" Final session 5 : Joint Programming and multi-sectoral approach to tackling malnutrition

Farah Abou Merhi updated the WIKI page | 15 March 2018

Dear all, Monday’s start to the EC’s Seminar on The EC Nutrition Action Plan – Ensuring Quality Implementation is fast approaching! We very much look forward to welcoming you to the Thon Hotel Bristol Stephanie at 08:30 on Monday morning. But we also hope to see many of you on Sunday evening. Below...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Disaster Risk reduction for food nutrition and security, Key practices for DRR implementers

Rosalba Vendemia uploaded a new Document | 14 March 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

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