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

Food Security in the Horn of Africa: The Implications of a Drier, Hotter and More Crowded Future

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

food_security_in_the_horn_of_africa_the_implications_of_a_drier_hotter_and_more_crowded_future.pdf 2.64 MB

Release Date: November 2011 Nearly 44 per cent of the population in the Horn of Africa is already subject to extreme food shortages. What will happen if the population continues to grow and climate change exacerbates the harsh conditions?

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The Critical Role of Global Food Consumption Patterns in Achieving Sustainable Food Systems

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

unep_global_food_consumption.pdf 2.59 MB

Publication Date: 2012 If current population and consumption trends continue, humanity will need the equivalent of two Earths to support it by 2030 (Global Footprint Network, 2012). These consumption trends are of particular concern when related to food. The most vital of all sectors and yet the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Avoiding Future Famines: Strengthening the Ecological Basis of Food Security through Sustainable Food Systems

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

avoiding_future_famines_report.pdf 5.17 MB

Release Date: October 2012 The report addresses an important aspect of the food security discourse: the ecological foundation of food security. The report argues that while factors such as availability, access, utilization and stability must be given adequate attention for global food security to...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Report: Crop Expansion and Conservation Priorities in Tropical Countries

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

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Publication Date: January 2013 This report, compiled by Researchers from UNEP's World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, shows that an increase in the amount of land being used for crops is one of the main reasons for the continuing loss of biodiversity and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Poverty-Environment Initiative Stories of Change

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

stories_of_change_lr.pdf 5.05 MB

Publication Date: February 2013 The Poverty Environment Iniative (PEI) is a global UN programme that helps countries to integrate poverty-environment linkages into national and sub-national development planning, from policymaking to budgeting, implementation and monitoring. It is a joint programme...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Two: Reducing Food Loss and Waste

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

wri_reducing_food_loss_and_waste.pdf 1.12 MB

Publication Date: June 2013 About 24 percent of all calories currently produced for human consumption are lost or wasted. This paper examines the implications of this amount of loss and waste, profiles a number of approaches for reducing it, and puts forth five recommendations for how to move...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Smallholders, Food Security and the Environment Report

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

smallholderreport_web.pdf 2.17 MB

Publication Date: June 2013 This report states that supporting smallholder farmers to play a greater role in food production and natural resource stewardship is one of the quickest ways to lift over one billion people out of poverty and sustainably nourish a growing world population. Most of the 1...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Restoring the Ecological Foundation for Food Security: A Soil Organic Matter Perspective

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

restoring_the_ecological_foundation_for.pdf 1.68 MB

Publication Date: June 2013 Food security globally is highly dependent on crop production, which has been subjected to increasing pressures emanating from both an increasing demand for food and a deteriorating health of the agricultural ecosystem. Restoration of the ecological foundation for crop...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Deuxième réunion du Comité de gestion du Fonds Bêkou

Ileana Nicolau posted Information | 18 December 2014

Chers membres, Comme vous le savez peut-être, aujourd'hui s'est tenue la deuxième réunion du Comité de gestion du Fonds Bêkou. Les fiches d'action des projets santé et réhabilitation urbaine ont été modifiées pour mieux répondre aux besoins du terrain. Par ailleurs, deux nouvelles fiches d'action...

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Oxfam's Global Food Index

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 18 December 2014

With The Food Index , Oxfam has developed an i nteractive snapshot of 125 countries showing the best and worst places in the world to eat, and the challenges people face getting enough of the right food. Country data is presented as an overall rating, as well 'enough to eat', 'affordability', 'food...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA

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