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

Videos: Improved Coffee Varieties in Tanzania

Capacity4dev Team updated the Information | 5 October 2016

Coffee is Tanzania’s largest export crop and most of the beans that leave the country are grown by smallholder farmers. But since the 1990s, coffee output has declined largely due to a series of diseases that slashed yields, increased operating costs for farmers and saw quality and coffee prices...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Videos: Improved Coffee Varieties in Tanzania

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 30 September 2016

Coffee is Tanzania’s largest export crop and most of the beans that leave the country are grown by smallholder farmers. But since the 1990s, coffee output has declined largely due to a series of diseases that slashed yields, increased operating costs for farmers and saw quality and coffee prices...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
New 'sector' note on agriculture, food security and rural development

Bernard Crabbé uploaded a new Document | 30 September 2016

agriculture_2017.pdf 1.45 MB

This sector note -which has just been finalized- provides detailed advice and practical examples on how to integrate - or "mainstream"- environment and climate change in agriculture, food security and rural development programmes .

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Peat Destruction, Soil Subsidence and Flooding in South East Asia

Lea Appulo posted Information | 23 September 2016

Agricultural production in vast regions of South East Asia will be lost in the coming decades as a result of flooding of extensive lowland landscapes. The main drivers of peatland destruction are palm oil and pulp for paper plantations that require drainage.

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Seminar for Food and Nutrition Security Coordination of the EU Delegations in Eastern and Southern Africa (CODESA)

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 20 September 2016

10 Oct

From 10 October 2016 to 14 October 2016
in Harare (Zimbabwe)

Organised by EUD Zimabwe, DEVCO Unit C1

The Seminar for Food and Nutrition Security Coordination of the EU Delegations in Eastern and Southern Africa (CODESA) on 'Scaling up and delivering' will be taking place in Harare, Zimbabwe. Topics to be discussed include women and gender, land governance, resilience, value chain development and...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Food and nutrition security and role of smallholder farms: challenges and opportunities

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 16 September 2016

This report constitutes a comprehensive compilation and synthesis of the principal issues and outcomes of the workshop on ‘Local level food and nutrition security and the role of subsistence/smallholder farms organised by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) in Seville on...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
2016 Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Learning Conference in Nairobi

Jean-Louis Lambeau created a new event | 16 September 2016

29 Nov

From 29 November 2016 to 1 December 2016
in (Kenya)

Organised by DEPP MEL - START NETWORK http://www.startnetwork.org/events/2016-depp-learning-conference

There are many reasons for working collaboratively – we all know that – and one key benefit that has been shown to be true time and time again is learning: by working together on projects, we learn from our partners’ mistakes and successes as well as our own. Moreover, when multiple agencies...

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Group: innov-aid
Brussels Briefing 46: Agribusiness Development & Tourism Markets in SIDS

David Walker posted Information | 14 September 2016

The next Brussels Development Briefing n.46 on the subject of “Agribusiness development in SIDs: the potential of tourism-related markets” will be held in Brussels at 09:00-13:00 on 21st September 2016 at the ACP Secretariat (Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels). This Briefing will be organised...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Case study: Suburban agriculture and cooperative building in 10 municipalities in the provinces of Camaguey, Las Tunas and Holguin, Cuba

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 13 September 2016

Published on the official EC website in 2016, the story Suburban agriculture and cooperative building in 10 municipalities in the provinces of Camaguey, Las Tunas and Holguin is paired to the project overview of the same name. The project aims to contribute to food security based on principles of...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Case study: Sustainable fishing catching on in Madagascar

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 13 September 2016

Published on the official EC website in 2016, the story Sustainable fishing catching on in Madagascar is paired to the project overview of Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the Regional Fisheries Strategy for the Eastern, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean (ESA-IO) region . Despite...

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