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

Tackling the Global Food Crisis: Sustainable Agrifood Systems

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 15 December 2015

This free online course , a massive open online course (MOOC), provided by Queen's University Belfast, UK, looks at food insecurity and the challenges to be overcome in order to maintain healthy and sustainable food supplies. It runs for a 4-week period starting on 11 January 2016, requiring 2...

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Our Hungry Planet: Agriculture, People and Food Security

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 15 December 2015

This free online course , a massive open online course (MOOC), on agriculture and food security is being run by experts from the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading, UK. Lasting 6 weeks and requiring 3 hours of study per week, it covers the challenges of...

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Creating a New Menu for Food Security Policy

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 11 December 2015

This IIED Briefing , published in December 2015, argues that the nature of food consumption and production is changing. In the past, rural areas produced food primarily for cities. Urban residents often consumed more than they needed, while the poorest rural smallholders often went hungry. Today,...

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Sécurité alimentaire: un projet mis en oeuvre par DRC en RCA

Cristina Rigolli created a new Photo album | 8 December 2015

Images d'un projet DRC financé par Bêkou "Contribuer à l'amélioration de la sécurité alimentaire et au relèvement socio-économique des communautés paysannes de ľOuham Pendè par le renforcement de leurs capacités de résilience"

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Achieving food security in the face of climate change

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 4 December 2015

This Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) Policy Brief , published in November 2015 by the Kiel Institute for World Economy, Germany, argues for a particular focus on agricultural production and food security in the current COP21 to help the largest possible number of people...

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New EU projects to improve food and nutrition security, agriculture revenues and good governance in Tanzania

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 4 December 2015

On 27 November, the EU announced four new actions in support of Tanzania's main development objectives, for a total of €42 million. The new projects will specifically support the agriculture sector, food and nutrition security as well as Tanzania's core systems in public finance management and...

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EU mobilises €125 million for countries affected by ‘El Niño’

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 4 December 2015

On 2 December 2015, the EU announced a contribution of €125 million to finance emergency actions in countries affected by the extreme weather phenomenon ‘El Niño’ in Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America. The support, €119 million of which comes from the European Development Fund...

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How does biodiversity pay its way? Nature conservation and development in Uganda and Vietnam

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude updated the event | 2 December 2015

02 Dec

From 2 December 2015
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by EuropeAid + WWF + Oxfam

How does nature pay its way Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/infopoint-lunchtime-conference-how-does-bio... [1] You can find the presentations of this conferenc by clicking on the links in the right column: [1] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/infopoint-lunchtime-conference-how-does-bio...

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ROSA News No 51 - EN

Sarah Cummings uploaded a new Document | 2 December 2015

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As world leaders gather in Paris for COP21, this December issue (No. 51) of ROSA News shows some of the linkages between food security and sustainable agriculture and climate change and focuses on the triple challenge for agriculture of adapting to climate change and contributing to mitigation,...

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ROSA News No 51 - FR

Sarah Cummings uploaded a new Document | 2 December 2015

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A l’heure où les dirigeants du monde entier se retrouvent à Paris pour la COP21, ce numéro (N°51) de ROSA News s’attache à metre en evidence les interrelations entre sécurité alimentaire, agriculture durable et changement climatique. Il souligne ainsi le triple défi auquel doit faire face le...

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