About the event: The side-event will illustrate how FAO through the Strategic Objective 1 is creating greater coherence and is improving the impact of the Organization’s work at country, regional and global levels towards the eradication of hunger. In particular, the side event will demonstrate how the Zero Hunger Regional Initiatives in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean provide a mechanism for FAO to bundle its human and financial resources to support work at regional and country levels. And it will show how its global work through the CFS can create a framework for action at country level.

Purpose: The overall purpose of the side-event is to showcase with concrete country examples how better policies, increased investment, improved governance and stakeholder coordination, and evidence-based decision-making are key ingredients for hunger eradication and how, by tackling these areas simultaneously, the right conditions are created for effective work against food insecurity and malnutrition.

Responsible office:

Kostas Stamoulis (ESA Director and SO1 Coordinator)

Languages:

English, French and Spanish

Presentations:

Brief Presentation by SO coordinator and three presentations by the Country representatives. The presentation and designed around a set of on Key questions.

Publications:

• Acting on Food Insecurity and Malnutrition: Food Security Commitment and Capacity Profile
  
  
• Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security
  
  
• The Right to Food: Past commitment, current obligation, further action for the future
  
  
• Principles for responsable investment in agriculture and food systems
  
  
• Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication)
  
  
• Meeting to Reach Consensus on a Global Dietary Diversity Indicator for Women
  
  
• Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Other Information:

• FAO’s Strategic Objective 1: Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
• Responsible Governance of Tenure
• Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
• Small-scale fisheries
• Right to adequate food
• Mainstreaming food security and nutrition
• Mapping, monitoring and evaluation to inform decision-making
• Information systems for food security and nutrition
• Support to the Hunger-Free Latin America and Caribbean Initiative
• Africa’s renewed partnership to end hunger by 2025

Twitter hashtag:

#CL151; #UNFAOResults; #zerohunger