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 economic advantage: assessing the value of climate change actions in agriculture

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 28 November 2016

Agriculture is a sector especially sensitive to climate change. It also accounts for significant emissions and is, therefore, a priority for both adaptation and mitigation plans and actions at global, national and local levels. The majority of NDCs, which are voluntary national submissions for post...

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Zoom: Global action to address the climate change-agriculture-food security nexus

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 28 November 2016

The annual climate conference, known as the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) , is taking place in Marrakech, Morocco, on 7-18 November 2016. This year’s conference, the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) which...

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CHATHAM HOUSE Annual Conference: A Sustainable Food Future

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 21 November 2016

International agreements, increasing urbanization and climate change are putting pressure on the global food system. The annual Chatham House food conference will address the specific challenges that need to be overcome to improve sustainability and food security and deliver carbon reductions in...

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ROSA News No. 53 - English

Sarah Cummings uploaded a new Document | 18 November 2016

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This newletter is the first e-newsletter produced by ROSA. Although it is designed to be viewed online , a PDF version is also available here, preserving many of the layout features. This issue No. 53 of ‘ROSA News’ comprises a zoom article " Global action to address the climate change-agriculture-...

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Linking Toilets and Nutrition for Stronger, Healthier Lives

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 17 November 2016

The role of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in tackling undernutrition has been on development and humanitarian professionals’ radar for more than two decades. Yet fully multi-sectoral approaches remain rare, despite undernutrition contributing to 860,000 preventable deaths a year in girls and...

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Sochivi Kao commented on an article | 16 November 2016

How to Fight Illegal Fishing

First at all i would like to introduce my self, I am Dr. Kao Sochivi, Deputy Director General of Fisheries Administration and also a Lead of National Fisheries Task Force for Combating IUU-Fishing for Cambodia. Now due to we got the red card from the EU since 2012 with some (9 points) specific...
Embedding climate change in EU development cooperation for food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture - State of Play 2016

Giorgia MEI uploaded a new Document | 16 November 2016

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In the framework of the Marrakech conference on Climate Change , the DG DEVCO, Unit C1, Rural Development, Food Security, Nutrition has produced a brief note on the "State of Play" of EU climate-relevant action in food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture (FNS&SA) . The note...

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Lessons learned: Experiences and good practices in the application of the Voluntary Guidelines

Sarah Cummings updated the Information | 15 November 2016

Published in July 2016 by the Committee on World Food Security, the report Experiences and good practices in the use and application of the VGGT represents the second global stocktake on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context...

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Zoom: Global action to address the climate change-agriculture-food security nexus

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 15 November 2016

The annual climate conference, known as the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) , is taking place in Marrakech, Morocco, on 7-18 November 2016. This year’s conference, the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) which...

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The Agriculture Sectors in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions: Analysis

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 14 November 2016

The Intended Nationally Determined Contributions ( INDC s) served as a basis for negotiations at COP21 and provided the foundation for the Paris Agreement on climate change. Unless a Party specifies otherwise, its INDC will become its first Nationally Determined Contribution ( NDC ) upon submitting...

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