The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition “FSN Forum” is an online venue for multi-stakeholder dialogue where policy decisions on food security and nutrition are collectively inspired, developed and linked with practice. The FSN Forum is facilitated by the Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) in FAO. The FSN Forum is hosting the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) online consultation which allows you to share your comments on the V0 draft of its latest report "Sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition, including the role of livestock".  This online consultation is part of the report...

FAO is actively collaborating with youth. Just last month at “Mobilizing Generation Zero Hunger”, a high level side event to the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, the Director General encouraged young people to be the “Zero Hunger Generation” as the SDGs were formally adopted.

Do you know about an interesting sustainable soil management practice that improves soil health?  FAO, in the ambit of the International Year of Soils, is calling for your contribution to the farmers’ soil practices video contest. The central theme of the contest is: Farmers’ sustainable soil management practices for boosting healthy soils. The deadline for submissions is 12 October 2015.

Bangkok, Thailand. A new publication launched today is calling for better recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to shifting cultivation practices in countries of the Asia-Pacific region in order to ensure indigenous people are food-secure in coming years.

Representatives from different indigenous peoples (Aymara, Embera–Wounaan, Guaraní, Kichwa, K’iche, Macushi, Miskita, Náhuatl, Zapoteco) from Latin America shared during two days their knowledge about food security with FAO statisticians to develop new methods that could measure food insecurity in indigenous communities. Indigenous Peoples, Food Security and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “17 objectives have already been defined in the Sustainable Development Goals. Along with eradicating hunger, additional targets for nutrition, biodiversity, water and equality are now listed, proving that the SDGs are more challenging than the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),” said Myrna Cunningham Cain, a renowned indigenous Miskita leader from Nicaragua and...