أخبار حول الأمن الغذائي والتغذية والنظم الغذائية

Webinar: Behind the scenes of a global poverty number and the challenges of rural estimates

The FAO Technical Network on Poverty Analysis (Think-PA) is pleased to invite you to the webinar "Behind the scenes of a global poverty number and the challenges of rural estimates" Wednesday, June 17 |15:00-16:30| Please register here . You will receive an e-mail with the link to webinar The first target of the SDGs is to eradicate extreme poverty, currently measured as people living on less than

Webinar: Promoting Collaborative Research for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems for Achieving Agenda 2030

FAO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in July 2018 with the Italian Research Institutions: the National Research Council (CNR); the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA); the National Agency for New Technologies, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA); and the Italian Institute for Environmental Research and Protection (ISPRA). The overarching

How do innovative evaluations contribute to achieving SDG2?

4 June, 15:00 - 16:15 CEST In the context of the gLOCAL week, the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD and WFP with the support of EvalForward are organizing an online learning event on innovative methods and approaches in evaluation, and on how innovations can provide lessons for progress under SDG2 “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”. During

e-Panel discussion - How to improve results in the agriculture sector: a discussion on leadership and Results-based management in Africa

Wednesday 6 May 2020, 11:00 to 12:00 CEST / 9:00 to 10:00 GMT. Please register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GN8h2jmvTNKYKrMrxnjVrg The panel is jointly hosted and organized by AVANTI and EvalForward . AVANTI is an IFAD funded initiative supporting national governments to assess and build RBM capacities in order to better measure SDGs in up to 20 countries globally. It is implemented

SALSA policy briefs to guide policy interventions in support of small farms

SALSA - Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security , is an EU-funded research project of the Horizon2020 program which run from April 2016 to March 2020 with the aim to provide a better understanding of the role of small farms and small food businesses in meeting the sustainable food and nutrition security challenge. In the project, FAO was responsible for the communication

FAO's work in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

FAO has implemented an array of tools to support policy analyses and assess the impact of COVID-19 on on food and agriculture, value chains, food prices, food security across the globe. Urgent policy measures Policy briefs Policy responses Big data | Daily updates Food policy warnings Crop calendars Strengthening food production and distribution systems is key to fighting hunger and entails

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