Foro Global sobre Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (Foro FSN)

Noticias sobre seguridad alimentaria, nutrición y sistemas alimentarios

Call for articles: Nutrition values and family farming

The ILEIA quarterly Farming Matters has issued a call for papers on: Nutritional values and family farming. The last issue of Farming Matters for 2014 will focus on how family farming and agroecology support the nutrition of family members and the wider community. The deadline is September 1st, 2014 Read more

Promoting women’s participation and leadership in producers’ organizations

Open online discussion hosted by FAO's TECA platform . The objectives of this discussion are: To share experiences of POs dealing with women's inclusion, participation and leadership issues To share successful experiences of women's participation and leadership in POs and cooperatives To understand better issues faced by women producers in POs and cooperatives To identify ways of strengthening

IPC Global Event on the Use and Impact of IPC

The IPC Global Steering Committee is organizing a two-day IPC Global Event under the theme Use and Impact of IPC at the Global, Regional and Country Level which will take place on July 1-2 2014, at FAO-HQs, Rome Italy. The event will be also the platform to launch the IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Phase Classification as well as to present the the new IPC Nutrition Classification initiative . The

Innovative School Feeding Programme to Combat Extreme Poverty in Zanzibar

On Wednesday 28 May the Government of Zanzibar launched a new innovative Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programme in collaboration with the Partnership for Child Development (PCD) and Table for Two to feed over 5000 school children, whilst simultaneously supporting local smallholder farmers by sourcing their produce for the school meals. “This programme is the first of its kind for Zanzibar and

United Nations "My World" Survey

The “My World" Survey ( www.myworld2015.org ) is a United Nations global survey where citizens from all over the world are voting on issues they think are important in their lives. The “MY World” survey offers individuals a list of 16 issues to choose from. The voters are then required to prioritize six of those issues they consider most important to their lives. The survey results will be used

International Course on Rights-based approach to food and nutrition security

The Food and Nutrition Security Training programme of the Centre for Development Innovation - Wageningen UR is pleased to announce the organisation of the ‘International Course on Rights-based approach to food and nutrition security, to be held in Wageningen, the Netherlands from 19 –30 January 2015’ . A fresh approach in addressing the problem of food and nutrition insecurity is the human rights

Concluding remarks and summary of ICN2 online discussion now available

The online discussion on the political outcome document of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) gathered a wide range of views, allowing this process to be highly participatory and benefit from important inputs from food security and nutrition stakeholders representing Member States, UN organizations, individual academics, civil society and the private sector. Plese see the

International nutrition courses with fellowships opportunities - Wageningen UR

The Food and Nutrition Security Training programme of the Centre for Development Innovation - Wageningen UR is pleased to announce the organisation of 3 international courses: 1. Linking emergency aid to food and nutrition security , to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from November 3 - November 14, 2014. 2. Agriculture Nutrition Linkages, to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from November 24 –

Launch of the Right to Food Forum

Dear Right to Food Supporters, We are happy to announce the launching of the Right to Food Forum . Hosted by FAO through the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum), the Right to Food Forum is a new online platform aiming at facilitating open discussions on key issues related to the right to food. The theme of the first discussion is " Spaces for dialogue on food security at the

Third issue of the IPC Newsletter

This third issue especially highlights important initiatives and technical developments undertaken at Global Level, among them the Launch of the IPC Global Strategic Programme and Vision (2014-2016) , the 3rd Chronic Scale Synthesis Meeting , and the ISS Pilots in Tanzania and Honduras . It also features recent IPC impacts, results and progress achieved at Regional and Country Level in Africa