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

Society will collapse by 2040 due to catastrophic food shortages, says study

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 18 November 2015

An newspaper article , published in The Independent , UK, on 24 June 2015, focuses on a recent Lloyd's Emerging Risk Report . Dr Aled Jones, the Director of the Global Sustainability Institute, told Insurge Intelligence , a crowd-funded investigative journalism project : 'We ran the model forward...

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Food system shock: the insurance impacts of acute disruption to global food supply

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 18 November 2015

Published by Lloyd's in June 2015, this Lloyd’s Emerging Risk Report considers the insurance and risk implications of a severe shock to the global food system. The systemic production shock to the world’s staple food crops described in the scenario generates widespread economic, political and...

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Food Security and Climate Change: on the way to COP 21

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 16 November 2015

17 Nov

From 17 November 2015
in NW Washington , DC 20007 (United States)

Organised by Embassy of France; World Resources Institute; Office for Science & Technology at the Embassy of France in the United States

France will host the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in Paris from November 30 to December 11 to reach an agreement that will put the world on track to limit global warming to 1.5° or 2° C. Our capacity to feed 9.5 billion people in 2050 in a context of climate change will depend on our ability...

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Ending rural hunger

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 16 November 2015

The Ending Rural Hunger project is a first attempt at providing a tool to review and follow-up on Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Endingruralhunger.org is a toolkit to review and follow-up on this global...

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The impact of climate change on costs of food and people exposed to hunger at subnational scale

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 16 November 2015

Published by the Postdam Institute in October 2015 and funded by the World Bank, this study analyses climate change impacts on agriculture and potential implications for the occurrence of hunger under different socioeconomic scenarios for 2030, focusing on the world regions most affected by poverty...

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Climate change impacts and mitigation in the developing world: an integrated assessment of the agriculture and forestry sectors

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 16 November 2015

Published by the World Bank on 5 November 2015, this paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to...

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43rd session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 43)

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 16 November 2015

17 Oct

From 17 October 2016 to 22 October 2016
in Rome (Italy)

Organised by FAO, Committee on World Food Security

The 43rd meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will address items under its workstreams arising from its Multi-year Programme of Work (MYPoW), including, inter alia: nutrition and food systems; CFS engagement with the SDGs; connecting smallholder farmers to rural markets;...

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CFS 42 - 'Making a Difference in Food Security and Nutrition'

Sarah Cummings updated the event | 16 November 2015

12 Oct

From 12 October 2015 to 15 October 2015
in Rome (Italy)

The 42nd Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) [1] will be deliberating the CFS' role in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); the state of food insecurity world-wide; policy convergence; coordination and linkages with CFS; CFS' workstreams and activities; and CFS' role in...

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42nd session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 42) (meeting report)

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 16 November 2015

The 42nd session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 42) was convened from 12-15 October 2015, at the headquarters of the FAO in Rome, Italy. The Final Draft report and a Summary Report of the 42nd Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 42) , the later produced by...

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Climate change & food security: challenges and options at global and national scales (seminar report)

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 13 November 2015

On 1O November 2015, IRPRI held a Policy Seminar on Climate change & food security: challenges and options at global and national scales which considered the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, food security, and resource use, raising important timescale and planning horizon...

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