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

Plantation, outgrower and medium-scale commercial farming in Ghana: Which model provides better prospects for local development?

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 26 August 2016

Published in May 2016, this policy brief provides some evidence on the impact of diverse agricultural business models supported by African governments, with some promoting largescale farming on plantations while others promote small- or medium-scale commercial farming. Particularly, the study...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
World Food Day: Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 25 August 2016

16 Oct

From 16 October 2016
in Rome (Italy)

Organised by FAO

The global message for World Food Day 2016 is Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too [1]. It resonates with the crucial time in which the day will be observed, just before the next UN Climate Change Conference, COP 22, from 7-18 November 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco. FAO is calling on...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Global gender and environment outlook

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 24 August 2016

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The GGEO report is essential reading for those interested in the social dimensions of environmental issues. For readers who want to better understand current environmental challenges, and for those seeking innovative and effective solutions, the report describes policy options and concrete...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Is veganism the key to sustainable development?

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 24 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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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Nouvelle série: Les nouvelles opportunités de l’économie alimentaire ouest-africaine

Lia Beyeler posted Information | 25 July 2016

L’économie alimentaire ouest-africaine s’est profondément transformée ces 60 dernières années sous l’effet de l’urbanisation et de la croissance des revenus. L’ensemble des activités de production, transformation et distribution qui concourent à l’alimentation humaine, représente un total de 178...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
New OECD Working Paper Series: Emerging opportunities in the West African food economy

Lia Beyeler posted Information | 25 July 2016

Driven by urbanisation and income growth, the West African food economy has radically changed over the past 60 years. The food economy, including all activities involved in producing food, from production to processing, transport and distribution totalled USD 178 billion in 2010, equal to 36% of...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
CTA: Forging links in open data for agriculture and nutrition

Lebo Mofolo posted Information | 18 July 2016

CTA facilitated two Data4Agriculture meetings simultaneously in Kigali and Brussels on 14 June. Although the roles of the panels were different, there were many similarities in the conclusions. Both events recognised the different actors involved in managing data for agriculture and the different...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Pacific Economies Forecast To Grow By 3.9% In 2016 Amid Rising Global Risks

David Walker posted Information | 15 July 2016

Most Pacific economies are unlikely to be significantly affected by heightened uncertainty in the global economy, says the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) July 2016 issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor, launched today in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG). “Despite significant risks to the global...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Rice distribution on Eid al Fitr 2016

Mathias Eichhorn updated the Photo album | 11 July 2016

For the second consecutive year, MSH Alfityanu Luxembourg was able to organise a distribution of rice to the most needy in Kaolack, Senegal, just in time for the annual Eid festival, also marking the end of the month of Ramadan. We were able to donate 108 bags of 25 kg of rice for a total of 712...

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Project: Creating Sustainable Means to Empower the Vulnerable in Rural Senegal
Rice distribution on Eid al Fitr 2016

Mathias Eichhorn created a new Photo album | 10 July 2016

For the second consecutive year, MSH Alfityanu Luxembourg was able to organise a distribution of rice to the most needy in Kaolack, Senegal, just in time for the annual Eid festival, also marking the end of the month of Ramadan. We were able to donate 108 bags of 25 kg of rice for a total of 712...

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Project: Creating Sustainable Means to Empower the Vulnerable in Rural Senegal

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