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

Good news from the FAO on world food insecurity

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 18 December 2014

The State of Food Insecurity 2014 , produced by the FAO, was released on 16 September 2014 and is available for download on FAO website. It demonstrates that the hunger target of the Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of undernourished people in developing countries by 2015 – is...

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Strengthening linkages between research and extension for food and nutrition security in Asia and the Pacific

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 18 December 2014

The Food and Agriculture Organization – Regional Ofﬁce for Asia and the Paciﬁc (FAO-RAP) and the Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Sustainable Agriculture (CAPSA) of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Paciﬁc (ESCAP) organized a two-day Expert Consultation on...

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Networking for Food Crisis Prevention 30th annual meeting of the food crisis prevention network (RPCA) in the Sahel and West Africa

Lebo Mofolo posted Information | 16 December 2014

Every year over the past three decades, the Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) for the Sahel and West Africa has been holding its annual meeting. In 2014, it is taking place in Brussels, Belgium, on 17 and 18 December. As a member of the Network, CTA will be represented by its Director, Michael...

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Irrigation - EAU4Food prgramme

Barbara DEQUINZE posted Information | 8 December 2014

Irrigation - EAU4Food prgramme On the 4th December an InfoPoint session was held in DEVCO to present the EAU4FOOD programme funded by DG RTD. The programme is executed in 5 irrigated zones in Africa (Tunisia, Mali, South Africa & Mozambique, Ethiopia) and utilizes a trans disciplinary approach...

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Pastoralism and Conflict

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 5 December 2014

Pastoralists can get a bad name. These semi-nomadic communities are sometimes portrayed as living an outmoded way of life, feuding and degrading the environment with their herd before moving to a new area. The reality is different. The European Commission supports pastoralism as one of the most...

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How to Fight Illegal Fishing

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 5 December 2014

What illicit trade is worth up to $23 billion each year, threatens the environment, food security and the economies of developing countries, and is now the subject of a special taskforce at INTERPOL? The answer is illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU).

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How to Fight Illegal Fishing

Capacity4dev Team posted news | 28 November 2014

What illicit trade is worth up to $23 billion each year, threatens the environment, food security and the economies of developing countries, and is now the subject of a special taskforce at INTERPOL? The answer is illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU). Experts from African, Caribbean...

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How to Fight Illegal Fishing

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 28 November 2014

What illicit trade is worth up to $23 billion each year, threatens the environment, food security and the economies of developing countries, and is now the subject of a special taskforce at INTERPOL? The answer is illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU). Experts from African, Caribbean...

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How to Fight Illegal Fishing

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 28 November 2014

What illicit trade is worth up to $23 billion each year, threatens the environment, food security and the economies of developing countries, and is now the subject of a special taskforce at INTERPOL? The answer is illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU). Experts from African, Caribbean...

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Diane KELECOM commented on an article | 28 November 2014

How to Fight Illegal Fishing

In addition to the task force, INTERPOL also launched a new initiative know as Infra Terra 2014, which falls under their Infra-Red Operation - a call to the public to help locate a list of fugitives wanted for environmental crimes, including illegal fishing. Find out more in the B4Life group under...

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