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

The Twin-Track Approach to Food Security

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 13 April 2015

Ending food crises requires immediate humanitarian assistance but also long-term support to limit future shortages. How to advance this ‘twin-track approach’ to nutrition was one of the main agenda items when the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, visited the...

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Using Mobile Phone Data and Airtime Credit Purchases to Estimate Food Security

Rahel Dette uploaded a new Document | 10 April 2015

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A new UN Global Pulse study in collaboration with WFP, Universite Catholique de Louvan and Real Impact Analytics identifies airtime credit purchases (i.e. phone credit "topups") as realtime proxy indicatrors for food spending in Eastern Africa. This could promise new uses of mobile phone data for...

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Oxford Adaptation Academy for Leaders and Practitioners

Lesley Downing created a new event | 2 April 2015

09 Aug

From 9 August 2015 to 28 August 2015
in Oxford (United Kingdom)

Organised by A joint venture between the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University and the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP)

The Academy exposes climate practitioners to the links between climate science, vulnerability and decision making. Now in its 6th year, its Alumni are drawn from UN organisations, development banks, NGOs and government.

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Oxford Adaptation Academy for Leaders and Practitioners

Lesley Downing created a new event | 2 April 2015

09 Aug

From 9 August 2015 to 28 August 2015
in Oxford (United Kingdom)

Organised by A joint venture between the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University and the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP)

The Academy exposes climate practitioners to the links between climate science, vulnerability and decision making. Now in its 6th year, its Alumni are drawn from UN organisations, development banks, NGOs and government.

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Towards achieving food and nutrition security, and changing course in global agriculture

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 30 March 2015

This discussion paper from Biovision: Foundation for Ecological Development, published in January 2015, outlines the priorities of a number of organizations for the final stage of the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. The paper underlines key concerns including: protecting the...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Lunch-time conference at EuropeAid on 20 March 2015: How transforming the planet affects our health.

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude updated the event | 23 March 2015

20 Mar

From 20 March 2015
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by European Commission (DG-DEVCO) and Wildlife Conservation Society

Among their various impacts on sustainable development, biodiversity loss and natural ecosystem degradation also have severe consequences on human health. Dr Lucette Flandroy, from the Belgian Federal Public Service Health, Environment and Food Chain Safety, will provide an overview of the state of...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Tracking food security during the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak

Sarah Cummings updated the Information | 23 March 2015

This February 2015 survey from VAM Food Security Analysis, World Food Programme, indicates that the overall situation is stabilizing or improving in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the poorest households seem to be increasingly reliant on negative coping strategies.Some Ebola-affected areas – such as...

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State of knowledge review on the interlinkages between biodiversity and human health, by Dr Lucette Flandroy, SPF Santé, Environnement

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude uploaded a new Document | 23 March 2015

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Ecosystem change and human health: an overview of the HEAL program, by Dr Chris Golden, WCS.

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude uploaded a new Document | 23 March 2015

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 23 March 2015

This article , published in February 2105 in the journal Agriculture & Food Security and written by a team of CGIAR authors, considers that productive resources are essential to the livelihoods and food security of the world’s rural poor. Gender-equal ownership of resources is considered key to...

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