Launch of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2018 - in Russian

Europe and Central Asia encompasses great economic, social and environmental diversity; its countries are facing various food security and nutrition challenges.

While they have made significant progress in reducing the prevalence of undernourishment over the past two decades, new evidence shows a stagnation of this trend, particularly in Central Asia.

The Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2018 provides new evidence for monitoring trends in food security and nutrition within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The in-depth analysis reviews the state of micronutrient deficiencies, as well as recent policy measures taken to address food security and nutrition in all its dimensions. The publication’s focus is on migration, gender and youth and the linkages with rural development and food security in Europe and Central Asia.

The Russian version of the Overview will be published on 2 April at 12:00 Moscow time, while its findings will be presented in parallel at a round-table discussion in Moscow. 

Speakers include:

• Viorel Gutu, FAO Subregional Representative for Central Asia (key-note presentation)
• Sergei Kiselev, Head of Chair of Agroeconomics at Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Irina Ivakhnyuk, Deputy Head of Chair of Demography at Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Tatyana Nefedova, Lead Scholar at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Jahan Kurbanova, Economist
• Mauricio Rosales, Coordinator of FAO project “Developing capacity for strengthening food security and nutrition in the Caucasus and Central Asia”

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