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

Implementing EU food and nutrition security policy commitments: second biennial report

Raymond LATASTE uploaded a new Document | 29 June 2016

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This is the second joint EU – Member States report on the implementation of EU food and nutrition security policy commitments. It presents an analysis of EU donors' alignment with the 6 priorities and examines two themes in greater depth - enhanced nutrition and inclusive agrifood chains and...

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Sarah Cummings commented on an event | 23 June 2016

High Level Consultation on Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Nutrition, Food Security and Inclusive Agricultural Growth

On 25 April, Commissioner Mimica wrote a blog post on this event in which he considers international efforts to develop a world free from hunger and undernutrition, aiming to achieve the new vision of the SDGs. He argues that innovative approaches to inclusive and sustainable agricultural...

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Evaluation of EU support to Research and Innovation for development in partner countries (2007-2013)

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 22 June 2016

Published in May 2016, this four volume evaluation repor t, produced by ECDPM, examines DG DEVCO's support to Research and Innovation (R&I) in partner countries during the last EU budget period (2007-2013). The main report considers that during these years DEVCO did not have an explicit policy...

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Brussels Briefing 44: Responsible & Sustainable Sourcing Through Fair Trade

David Walker updated the event | 20 June 2016

22 Jun

From 22 June 2016
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by CTA, the European Commission / DEVCO, the ACP Secretariat, CONCORD and the Fair Trade Advocacy Office

The next Brussels Development Briefing on “Promoting responsible and sustainable sourcing through Fair Trade” will take place on 22 June 2016 from 9:00 to 13:00, at the ACP Secretariat in Brussels, Belgium.

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European Development Days 2016: Supporting young, innovative farmers and smallholders in Africa

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 13 June 2016

16 Jun

From 16 June 2016
in Brussels 1000 (Belgium)

Organised by Alliance for a green revolution in Africa

This session will explore the issues of food security, access to land and inclusive business models for supporting smallholder farmers and young innovative farmers in Africa. Participants will discuss the role of public-private partnerships to develop agribusiness value chains that can alleviate...

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Brussels Briefing 44: Responsible & Sustainable Sourcing Through Fair Trade

David Walker created a new event | 13 June 2016

22 Jun

From 22 June 2016
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by CTA, the European Commission / DEVCO, the ACP Secretariat, CONCORD and the Fair Trade Advocacy Office

The next Brussels Development Briefing on “Promoting responsible and sustainable sourcing through Fair Trade” will take place on 22 June 2016 from 9:00 to 13:00, at the ACP Secretariat in Brussels, Belgium.

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Going the Last Mile: Accelerating Progress in Food Security and Nutrition

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 6 June 2016

14 Jun

From 14 June 2016
in Brussels 1000 (Belgium)

Organised by IFPRI; Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation; Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development, European Commission (EC); HarvestPlus; Joint Research Centre of the EC (JRC)

The event [1] will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the eve of the European Development Days and will focus on translating investments into action. [1] https://www.ifpri.org/event/going-last-mile-accelerating-progress-food-s...

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Food & Nutrition Security Knowledge Management & Sharing Workshop

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 5 June 2016

18 Jul

From 18 July 2016 to 20 July 2016
in Johannesburg (South Africa)

Organised by NEPAD/SADC

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), are organizing a 3-day training workshop on July 18th-20th, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The objective...

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G7 - key challenges to agriculture and accountability report on land commitments

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 3 June 2016

A blog post on the Global Donor Platform, published on 31 May 2016, reviews the meeting of the Agricultural Ministers of the G7 countries ahead of the 2016 G7 meeting in Ise-Shima, Japan. The ministers recognised the successful placing of food security issues on the international agenda in the...

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2015-2016 El Niño: Early action and response for agriculture, food security and nutrition

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 3 June 2016

Published in May 2016, this publication from the FAO provides an overview of the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon on agriculture and food security. El Niño is the warming of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, which occurs roughly every two to seven years, lasting from six to 24...

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