Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

In November 2012, the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) to conduct a study on Food Losses and Waste in the Context of Sustainable Food Systems . Final findings of the study will feed into CFS 41 Plenary session on policy convergence (October 2014). As part of the process of elaboration of its reports, the HLPE

21 November 2013, Accra – Seven years after the launch of the Economic Community Of West African States Agricultural Policy (ECOWAP), food insecurity and hunger are still prevalent in West Africa. Acute food crises occurred in 2005, 2010 and 2012 in the region, hitting especially the Sahel. In 2012, 18.7 million people were affected by food insecurity. Sharing knowledge and expertise on food

GFAR is seeking many new ways to spread the value of agricultural research and innovation of all kinds and how they are helping to address development challenges. GFAR has established a collaboration with New Agriculturist a widely read and well recognized online journal, to help share your stories about how agricultural knowledge and innovation are helping to address major development challenges

This issue especially highlights important initiatives and technical developments undertaken at Global Level, among them the IPC Global Steering Committee Meeting, which this year was combined with a Partners and Donors Consultative Meeting and an IPC Fair & Seminar Series, the development of the IPC Global Strategic Programme, and the launch of a Short Training Course for Users of IPC Analysis

The SAVE FOOD Initiative will be hosting a two-day partnership meeting in Rome on 10 and 11 December this year, to discuss further collaboration and the roles partners can (or want to) play in reducing food loss and waste. The meeting targets the 170 current partners in SAVE FOOD, and reaches out to other organizations and companies that are active in food loss or waste reduction. http://www.fao

Dear Members, We would like to invite you to the online discussion Rights-based approaches to Food Security in Protracted Crises , launched today by the Community of Practice on Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises. There are certainly many challenges to the successful application of rights based approaches in protracted crises settings such as weak central governments or having to deal with non

The ambition of this site is to try and inform on the food issue and to debunk myths on hunger ( More on myths on hunger... ) so that the honest citizens of the XXIst century that we are, are able to better understand the world around us and act in order to change it and make a reality of the utopia of a world without hunger. to know more please visit: http://www.hungerexplained.org

The Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) is organizing a side event on “Transforming food systems: empowering women to deliver on Food Security and Nutrition” in the context of the CFS 40 on Thursday October 10th, 2013 between 12:30 and 14:00. Venue: FAO Red Room The event will discuss: The evidence showing how women’s and girls’ empowerment delivers on these outcomes The costs of failing to

This years's SOFI focuses on the multiple dimensions of food insecurity.

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