Новости по продовольственной безопасности, питанию и системам питания

Webinar - Intra-household inequalities: Empirical evidence and implications for rural poverty reduction policies

Tuesday, 24 March - 14:00 - 15:30 CET Even though there is a large consensus that it is an individual condition, poverty is usually measured using household aggregated data. At the same time, social policies in developing countries, including food security and nutrition interventions, often try to reach deprived individuals by targeting poor households. However, differently from what standard

New FAOSTAT emission statistics

New emission statistics provide data on the greenhouse gas emissions shares of agriculture and related land use in total emissions from all economic sectors, for all countries and for the period 1990-2017.

Survey on the CFS Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched a survey to collect experiences and good practices in the use and application of the CFS Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises (CFS-FFA). This survey complements an earlier call for inputs issued in March 2019 and will contribute to monitoring progress on the use and application of the CFS-FFA, both from a

Webinar: Evaluation criteria: what's new and what changes for agriculture and food security?

Evaluation criteria: what's new and what changes for agriculture and food security? 12 February 2020 15:00 - 16:00 Central Europe Time Speaker: Megan G. Kennedy-Chouane, Senior Policy Analyst, OECD Facilitator: Rachel Sauvinet Bedouin, Senior Evaluation Officer, FAO The evaluation criteria first set out by the OECD Development Assistance Committee in 1991 have recently been revised. In this

First comprehensive portal to track international capacity development support for forest monitoring

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) has launched a portal - the first such comprehensive platform - to track international capacity development support to developing countries in forest monitoring for climate action. The portal - the GFOI Inventory of Activities - is a one-stop shop with easy-to-access information on more than 400 forest monitoring activities in 70 developing

ФАО определяет компоненты для более здорового и полноценного школьного питания

В то время как проблема голода во всем мире растет, во многих странах Европы и Центральной Азии качество продуктов питания представляет собой большую проблему, чем их нехватка. Значительное число взрослых и детей страдают от одной или сразу нескольких форм неполноценного питания, включая задержку роста, истощение, избыток веса и дефицит питательных микроэлементов. Учитывая пагубные последствия

Webinar: What’s in a message? The science and art of FBDGs messages

Tuesday, 26 November 2019 / 15.30-10.00 UTC+1 Commonly, FBDGs messages are aimed at the general public or at specific population groups (e.g. pregnant/lactating women, children younger than 2 years old), and are meant to be designed in a meaningful way, in order to be memorable and actionable for the target audience (i.e. to inspire and enable people to implement the FBDGs recommendations in their

Survey on gardening interventions in humanitarian emergencies and conflict-affected settings

Home Gardens For Resilience and Recovery (HG4RR) is mapping the current state of small-scale garden interventions in conflict-affected and emergency settings. We would like to know more about what gardening interventions have already been implemented in these settings. Your replies will be used to classify the types of garden interventions across different emergency settings, to understand what

Webinar: Diet modelling in the development of food-based dietary guidelines

Most food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) are accompanied by a graphic which expresses recommendations in a visual format, such as a plate or pyramid, in order to facilitate understanding by the general population. However, details on how the proportionalities of food groups depicted are arrived at are often not published, and there does not appear to be one clear way of doing this. Several

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2019) was launched today in New York City. The report gives an updated estimate of the number of hungry people in the world, including regional and national breakdowns, and provides the latest data on child stunting and wasting as well as on adult and child obesity. This year, for the first time, the report also present the estimates of a