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

Brussels Briefing n.51: "Agriculture as an engine of economic reconstruction and development in fragile countries"

Lebo Mofolo created a new event | 25 June 2018

27 Jun

From 27 June 2018
in (Belgium)

Organised by ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); European Commission / DEVCO; the ACP Secretariat; CONCORD

The Brussels Development Briefing no. 51 on ” Agriculture as an engine of economic reconstruction and development in fragile countries ” will take place on 27 June 2018 from 09h00 to 13h00 , ACP Secretariat, Brussels 451 Avenue Georges Henri, 1200 Brussels. This Briefing will be organised by the...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Innovative approaches to food security in Madagascar.

Helene Quentrec updated the Information | 21 June 2018

The EC-funded "Food Security Thematic Programme (FSTP)" has been implemented in Madagascar between 2012 - 2017. The seven projects carried out introduced innovative approaches to contribute to food security and nutrition improvements within the rural communities. These include agricultural...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
InfoPoint Lunchtime Conference: "Towards Shock-Responsive Safety Nets: the case of Somalia".

Helene Quentrec updated the event | 18 June 2018

22 Jun

From 22 June 2018
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by DEVCO INFOPOINT

The conference will examine how the current development cooperation and humanitarian assistance in Somalia, especially cash transfers, could provide a case study and the foundation for multi-year large-scale emergency safety net programmes in protracted crises. The work has been carried out under...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Strengthening Integration of Nutrition within Health Sector Programmes : An Evidence-based Planning Resources

Farah Abou Merhi updated the Document | 18 June 2018

strengthening_integration_of_nutrition_in_health_sector_programmes_final.pdf 7.49 MB

An overview of evidence on nutrition interventions delivered through the health sector, highlighting the importance of strengthening the delivery and effectiveness of selected cost-effective interventions with the greatest impact on nutrition and health outcomes.

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Technical brief - EU support to nutrition: lessons learned from two parallel regional projects in Africa and Asia

Madeleine ONCLIN updated the Document | 15 June 2018

devco_c1_technical_brief_lessons_learned_nutrition_draft_04_06_18.pdf 900.94 KB

This note aims to share key lessons learned from the experience of EU support to nutrition and serves the purpose to inform the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of similar actions in the future.

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
PIDS (2018) Lessons on Providing Cash Transfers to Disaster Victims: A Case Study of UNICEF’s Unconditional Cash Transfer Program for Super Typhoon Yolanda Victims

Zena Mouawad uploaded a new Document | 13 June 2018

lessons_on_providing_cash_transfers_to_disaster_victims_-_typhoon_yolanda.pdf 1.65 MB

In response to the effects of super typhoon Yolanda, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) implemented an unconditional cash transfer (UCT) program that provided emergency relief to ten thousand vulnerable families in Tacloban City and neighboring areas. This paper describes and assesses the...

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Group: Social protection across the humanitarian-development nexus
"Changing Women's Lives in the rural World" - joint EU, Germany, Finland and Netherlands panel at the 2018 EDDs to discuss gender tranformative approaches in rural areas

Maria Ketting DEVCO-C1 updated the Information | 8 June 2018

A dynamic line-up of speakers were to be found on the panel Changing women’s lives in a rural world that was hosted by DEVCO’s C1 at the EU DevDays this year . Opened by Anne Meskanen, Finland’s Ambassador-at-Large for Gender Equality, the panel represented a rich array of voices from around the...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Technical brief "Because Women's Land Rights Matter! How the EU development cooperation can help close the gender gap in land tenure"

Maria Ketting DEVCO-C1 updated the Information | 7 June 2018

The EU Commission remains dedicated to implement the objectives of the Gender Action Plan 2016-2020 and, in September 2017, DEVCO Unit C1 published a guidance note - “ Because women matter: Designing interventions in food, nutrition and agriculture that allow women to change their lives ” - in...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Disaster Risk Reduction for Food and Nutrition Security, Key practices for DRR Implementers

Rosalba Vendemia uploaded a new Document | 4 June 2018

disaster_risk_reduction_for_food_and_nutrition_security_key_approaches_for_implementers.pdf 1.82 MB

FAO-COOPI-OCHA-UNHABITAT/SAIO/2014. This brief provides general understanding of what DRR and resilience is, what it means for the agricultural sectors in the southern African context, and what may help to build resilient livelihoods to threats and emergencies and ensure the food and nutrition...

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Group: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean funded by ECHO
Innovative and “nutrition-sensitive” food security intervention for improved nutrition.

Pierre Berman posted Information | 7 May 2018

Food security is a key issue recognized by the United Nations (UN) with the Right to Food in the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Within the framework of informal economy, food security has a major role in reducing the vulnerability of people dependant on the informal economy and enhancing...

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Group: Informal Economy Support Facility

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