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

Sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition: what roles for livestock?

Angus Graham uploaded a new Document | 13 September 2016

hlpe-report-10_en.pdf 3.62 MB

Sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition: what roles for livestock? High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, Committee on World Food Security, 2016. The livestock sector is considered an engine for evelopment, and a driver of economic, social and...

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Group: South Sudan Rural Development Group
Promoting a maize-to-livestock feed value chain in the Indian Ocean Islands

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 13 September 2016

Published on June 2016, this briefing note examines the potential for developing a maize-to-livestock feed value chain in the Indian Ocean Islands (IOI) region of Eastern and Southern Africa (defined here as comprising the countries of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles and the French...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Agrimonde-Terra: Foresight land use and food security in 2050

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 12 September 2016

Published on June 2016 in the framework of a broader work launched in 2012 by CIRAD and INRA, the summary report “ Agrimonde-Terra: Foresight land use and food security in 2050 ” provides the main findings of a global analysis on the linkage between land use exploitation, food security and climate...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Developing gender‐equitable legal frameworks for land tenure: A Legal Assessment Tool

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 12 September 2016

Published on March 2016, this paper aims to deepen the understanding on women’s access to land and to analyse how adjustments in the legal framework regulating women’s land tenure can promote their economic empowerment and ultimately generate more productive agricultural systems. As underlined in...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition: what roles for livestock?

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 12 September 2016

Published on July 2016, this report from the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) focuses on the livestock sector because it is considered “ as a powerful engine for the development of the agriculture and food sector, a driver of major economic, social and environmental changes in food systems...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Survey: Most humanitarians favour the use of drones in disaster zones

Timo Luege posted Information | 6 September 2016

Drones are one of the most controversial technologies in disaster response operations. To find out what exactly humanitarian aid workers think about the use of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) with funding from EU Humanitarian Aid has now published a...

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Group: innov-aid
Drones in Humanitarian Action – A survey on perceptions and applications

Timo Luege uploaded a new Document | 6 September 2016

drones_in_humanitarian_acion_survey-analysis-final2.pdf 3.19 MB

The first in its kind, this survey measures perceptions of the use of drones in humanitarian action. The Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) undertook the survey between 15 November 2015 and 15 January 2016. A majority of survey respondents expressed confidence that drones have the potential to...

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Group: innov-aid
Story: Speaking up for the next generation of farmers in Niger

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 31 August 2016

Published on the official EC website in 2016, the story Speaking up for the next generation of farmers in Niger is paired to the project overview of Improved global governance for hunger reduction . The story describes the context, objectives, results and partners. It includes a testimony from...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Is veganism the key to sustainable development?

Sarah Cummings updated the Information | 31 August 2016

In the article I’ve converted to veganism to reduce my impact on the living world published on 9 August 2016 in The Guardian newspaper, the journalist George Monbiot argues that the world can cope with 7 or even 10 billion people but only if people stop eating meat. He considers that an animal-...

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Land and Poverty Conference 2017: Responsible Land Governance—Towards an Evidence Based Approach

Giorgia MEI created a new event | 28 August 2016

20 Mar

From 20 March 2017 to 24 March 2017
in Washington D.C (United States)

Organised by The World Bank

The 18th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty [1]will be held at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C., from March 20 to 24, 2017. Conference theme: Responsible Land Governance: Towards an Evidence Based Approach. Deadline for submission of the abstracts 31 october 2016. [1]...

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