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

Strengthening resilience for food security and nutrition insecurity in Sahel

Milena PIROLLI updated the Document | 13 January 2020

ASiST - Sahel_FR_20191204.pdf 1.65 MB

This briefing note provides a review of multisectoral programs to strengthen resilience targeted at the most vulnerable funded by the EU between 2014 and 2019 in seven Sahel countries affected by food and nutrition crises. Note that alongside these programs, the EU finances other actions to build...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Increasing revenues for rural inhabitants is a crucial issue to avoid rural exodus ant poverty.

Patrick CHEVALIER started a Debate | 26 December 2019

A Direct access to the consumer market is a very simple way whiich is not yet encouraged by programms. hundreds of women are trying to achieve it in Casamance. look at http://casa-ecologie.com/ . Very low budget (1000 euros) and very high benefit for the women who are now saling directly their...

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Group: Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management for Development
Xiaoying LIU commented on an event | 30 November 2019

Worldwide Event of World Soil Day Conference: "Arable Land Protection Mechanism and Innovative Approaches in the Framework of Eco Civilization" 世界土壤日全球活动研讨会：“生态文明背景下的耕地保护战略与路径创新”

Worldwide Event of World Soil Day -- Conference Notification: "Arable Land Protection Mechanism and Innovative Approaches in the Framework of Eco Civilization" | 世界土壤日全球活动--研讨会：“生态文明背景下的耕地保护战略与路径创新” 通知 arable_land-eco_civil-wsd2019_c-e.pdf

Group: Knowledge@Terra Classrooms
Worldwide Event of World Soil Day Conference: "Arable Land Protection Mechanism and Innovative Approaches in the Framework of Eco Civilization" 世界土壤日全球活动研讨会：“生态文明背景下的耕地保护战略与路径创新”

Xiaoying LIU created a new event | 30 November 2019

30 Nov

From 30 November 2019
in Beijing 北京 (China)

Organised by China Agricultural University, Editorial Department of China Land Science | 中国农业大学，《中国土地科学》编辑部

Arable land protection affects global and regional policies, including food security, climate change, social-economic livability and poverty problems. Under current circumstances of global and regional sustainable governance, climate environmental crisis and Eco Civilization systems, China's Prime...

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Group: Knowledge@Terra Classrooms
Agri-food processing in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of the private sector

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 19 November 2019

This third chapter in the monograph Private sector’s role in agricultural transformation in Africa , published by IFPRI in September 2019, is entitled 'The quiet revolution and emerging modern revolution in agri-food processing in sub-Saharan Africa'. It argues that the private sector in agri-food...

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Group: Private sector in agricultural innovation and development
AgriFood Africa Launch Event

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 19 November 2019

09 Dec

From 9 December 2019
in Central London (United Kingdom)

Organised by Knowledge Transfer Africa, UK Department for International Developmment

The GBP 26 million Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) AgriFood Africa programme will be launched by Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) on 9 December 2019 in central London, UK. The programme will be funded for 5 years by the GCRF and the Department for International Development (DFID) to realise...

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Group: Private sector in agricultural innovation and development
Introduction to VCA4D

Sara Jones created a new Photo album | 12 November 2019

Introduction to VCA4D!

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Project: Value Chain Analysis for Development (VCA4D)
UN Day Flanders - High level conference on the Sustainable Development Goals and break out sessions

Alexa Froger created a new event | 18 October 2019

21 Oct

From 21 October 2019
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by United Nations Association Flanders Belgium; CIFAL/UNITAR

United Nations Day Flanders Organised by CIFAL Flanders | UNITAR and the United Nations Association Flanders Belgium (UNA). The conference will reflect on the progress made on the Sustainable Development Goals in Flanders and on the challenges of the United Nations for the upcoming years. But also...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Brussels Development Briefing n. 58 on Africa’s Agriculture Trade in a changing environment

Isolina Boto posted Information | 17 October 2019

Join great speakers at the next Brussels Development Briefing n. 58 on Africa’s Agriculture Trade in a changing environment which will be held in Brussels on Wednesday 23rd October 2019 (9h00-13h00) at the Hôtel Sofitel Bruxelles Europe, Place Jourdan 1, 1040 Brussels. This Briefing will be...

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Group: Private Sector and Trade
The World Food Prize is courting the private sector. What could go wrong?

Sarah Cummings updated the Information | 7 October 2019

The 2019 World Food Prize (WFP) has been awarded to the Dutch entrepreneur, Simon Groot of East West Seeds, a vegetable seed company that has boosted the fortunes of smallholder farmers. Published on 4 October 2019, this short Devex article by Andrew Green considers the risks of engaging with the...

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Group: Private sector in agricultural innovation and development

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