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

Report of IFPRI’s conference on “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security,” held in May 2014, Addis Abeba

Luis Lechiguero uploaded a new Document | 12 January 2015

iiar-37_resilience_conference_addis_paarlberg.pdf 1.71 MB

Please find attached the independent impact assessment report of IFPRI’s 2020 Vision conference on “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security,” held in May 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. IFPRI commissioned the report in order to be able to assess the impact of the Conference on individual...

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Group: Social Protection & Resilience Building in Ethiopia
Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2)

Diane KELECOM updated the event | 26 December 2014

19 Nov

From 19 November 2014 to 21 November 2014
in Rome (Italy)

Organised by FAO and WHO

TheSecond International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) [1] will be held in Rome from 19 to 21 November 2014, with the participation of Heads of State and Government, at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The Conference will be jointly organized by the Food and...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
2014 International Conference on Food Security and Nutrition

Diane KELECOM updated the event | 26 December 2014

29 Mar

From 29 March 2014 to 30 March 2014
in Shanghai (China)

Organised by Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (APCBEES)

The objective of the 2014 International Conference on Food Security and Nutrition (ICFSN 2014) [1] is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Food...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
EXPO Milano 2015: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life

Diane KELECOM updated the event | 26 December 2014

01 May

From 1 May 2015 to 31 October 2015
in Milan (Italy)

Organised by Expo 2015 S.p.A. was constituted in fulfilment of commitments undertaken by Government of Italy

On show at Expo 2015 [1]: the great issues of sustainable development. Expo 2015 will be a universal event displaying tradition, creativity and innovation in the business of food. It will bring together many themes that have already been handled by this event in the past, and set them out anew in...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Organic Agriculture and Food Security in Africa

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

ditcted200715_en.pdf 463.72 KB

Publication Date: 2008 This study examines the relationship between organic agriculture and food security in Africa, particularly East Africa, which is where UNCTAD and UNEP have, through their joint Capacity-Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF), have been implementing a...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The Environmental Food Crisis

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

environmental_food_crisis.pdf 15.13 MB

Publication Date: 2009 In 2008 food prices surged plunging millions back into hunger and triggering riots from Egypt to Haiti and Cameroon to Bangladesh. I n order to understand the factors underpinning the food crisis and to assess trends, UNEP commissioned a Rapid Response team of internal and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Green Economy report

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

green_economy_report.pdf 21.58 MB

Release Date: 21 February 2011 UNEP's Green Economy report is a ground-breaking report. It demonstrates that the greening of economies is not generally a drag on growth but rather a new engine of growth; that it is a net generator of decent jobs, and that it is also a vital strategy for the...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Ecosystems for water and food security

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

depi-ecosystems-food-secur.pdf 7.33 MB

Publication Date: 2011 Against the current challenges to enhance food security worldwide, this report aims at illustrating the importance of healthy ecosystems for the provisioning of key services that contribute to food security. Such ecosystem services are water provisioning and food production...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Food and Ecological Security: Identifying synergy and trade-offs

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

food_and_ecological_security_identifying_synergy_and_trade-offs.pdf 462.97 KB

Release Date: 28 July 2011 The 4th issue of the UNEP Policy Series on Ecosystem Management focuses on the synergy and trade-offs in ensuring food and ecological security.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Organic Agriculture - A step towards the Green Economy in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region - Case studies from Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 24 December 2014

unep_organic_eecca_country_study.pdf 947.12 KB

Publication Date: 2011 In the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) region organic agriculture could play a catalyst role in green economy transformation by re-vitalizing the farm and food sector and creating employment that provides better returns on per unit of labour input all along...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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