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

Food security governance: empowering communities, regulating corporations

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 23 March 2015

This new book , written byNora McKeon and published in January 2015 in the Routledge Critical Security Studies Series, considers food security in the context of evolving global food governance. Applying food system analysis to review how the international community has addressed food issues since...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Beating famine. Southern Africa Conference – Sustainable Food Security through Land Regeneration in a Changing Climate

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 23 March 2015

14 Apr

From 14 April 2015 to 17 April 2015
in Lilongwe (Malawi)

Organised by World Agroforestry Centre, World Vision and other partners

A Southern Africa regional Beating Famine conference [1] will be held in Lilongwe, Malawi from 14 to 17 April 2015 to highlight how widespread land degradation in the face of climate change could affect food security in the region. Organized by the World Agroforestry Centre, World Vision and other...

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Tracking food security during the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 22 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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Impact of the ebola epidemic

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 22 March 2015

‌ Based on a meeting 2-4 March in Lomé, the most recent assessment of the impact of the ebola virus by Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) finds that the overall situation in the region is stable, though there are pockets of food and nutrition insecurity in some areas, particularly because of...

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Policy coherence for.... What did you say?

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 22 March 2015

In a blog post , CONCORD Vice-President's Laura Sullivan reflects on the ' Dialogue on food security and Policy Coherence for Development' organised by CONCORD and the EC on 24 February 2015.

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Le fonds Bêkou : ensemble pour la sécurité alimentaire en RCA

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 21 March 2015

Chers membres, Lors de sa mission à Bangui du 3 au 11 février dernier, l'équipe Bêkou a pu rencontrer des représentants tant du gouvernement que d'autres parti-prenantes centrafricains au sujet des cinq actions menées par le fonds Bêkou en RCA. Parmi ces réunions, le 5 février, l'équipe Bêkou a...

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Implementing EU food and nutrition security policy commitments: first biennial report. Accompanying document

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 20 March 2015

This Staff Working Document provides additional information and case studies supporting the analysis and findings of the first biennial report on Implementing EU food and nutrition policy commitments. Case studies are concerned with the European Initiative for Agricultural Research for Development...

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Implementing EU food and nutrition security policy commitments: first biennial report

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 20 March 2015

In 2010, the European Union (EU) and its Member States along with all partners sought to address food and nutrition security by adopting an EU-wide policy framework for food security. Since then, further EU development policy commitments have been undertaken to reinforce the priorities established...

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Le fonds Bêkou : ensemble pour la sécurité alimentaire en RCA

Cristina Rigolli posted Information | 19 March 2015

Chers membres, Lors de sa mission à Bangui du 3 au 11 février dernier, l'équipe Bêkou a pu rencontrer des représentants tant du gouvernement que d'autres parti-prenantes centrafricains au sujet des cinq actions menées par le fonds Bêkou en RCA. Parmi ces réunions, le 5 février, l'équipe Bêkou a...

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Lunch-time conference at EuropeAid on 20 March 2015: How transforming the planet affects our health.

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude created a new event | 16 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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