What is CLACSO's SAN group?

The FAO-CLACSO Task Force on “Food and Nutrition Security: Innovation in Public Policy” is a partnership between FAO and twelve academic and research institutions from eight Latin American countries with the following objectives:

1. Coordinate and manage evidence and knowledge generation, dissemination, and other actions necessary to introduce innovations in the public policy agenda in Latin American and Caribbean countries in the area of food and nutrition security (FSN).
2. Establish a bridge between the academic sector, decision-makers and other actors linked to public policies, harmonizing and tuning scientific production in order to use it to generate public policy solutions to food and nutrition insecurity.
3. Generate and coordinate training and extension actions aimed at improving the capacities of actors involved in designing and implementating public policies on FNS.

The central themes of the group's work for 2018-2019 are as follows:

• Governance in FNS public policies and actions: power relations, political coordination and social participation, public management tools.
• Public policies and actions focused on building sustainable, inclusive, transparent food systems to combat malnutrition in all its forms, starting from the territories.

The Latin American Social Sciences Council (CLACSO, by its acronym in Spanish) is an organisation with a long history in the field of social sciences, and has, among many other initiatives, 110 working groups on a wide range of issues, with the FAO CLASO FNS Task Force being the only one that directly addresses the area of food and nutrition security policies.