Forum global sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (Forum FSN)

Wageningen UR-Centre for Development Innovation is organising a new course on Linking Emergency Aid to Food and Nutrition Security. The course offers participants a chance to gain insight in the inter-disciplinary and integrated nature of food and nutrition security in an emergency setting, in particular the role of stakeholders, institutions, and innovative governance/donor interventions to build resilience. In addition, it stimulates participants to consider their own role as manager, policy maker or practitioner, making use of a wide range of principles and tools, to strengthen their interventions to make the transition from emergency towards food and nutrition security.

Themes:

• Typhoon Bopha hits Philippines banana harvest hard
• Global food prices fall slightly in November
• Afghan domestic wheat flour prices rising
• Asia cereals harvest at record level in 2012
• Iran paying higher prices for commodities because of sanctions
• Viet Nam achieves record rice exports
• Indonesia and the Philippines likely to cut rice imports
• Scientists unlock key sections of wheat genome
• Favourable weather helping Afghan wheat crop
• Russian wheat threatened by coldest winter in years

The new Right to Food website has been launched today on Human Rights Day, 10 December.

In addition to a new design, improved functionalities and user friendly navigation, this website also displays the diverse work of the Right to Food in FAO. The Team’s work at global, national, sub-national and regional level is divided into both Projects and according to activities in the Our Work section making it easier for users to find the information needed. A strong feature of the website is the Publications section, where you will find information on all aspects related to the human right to food – from principle to practice!

All content is available in English, French and Spanish. Click here to vist the page

The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition

Online discussions that make a difference

This special publication showcases some of the FSN Forum's most significant discussions in recent years, on central topics and trends in food security, nutrition, and beyond. From food security concepts to climate change, and from street foods to global governance, see what happens when you “do knowledge sharing right”! 

Click here to download the publication

On the 12 October 2012, the IPC Global Partners ACF, CARE, CILSS, FAO, FEWSNET, FSC, EC-JRC, Oxfam, Save the children, and WFP officially launched Version 2.0 of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Technical Manual.

The IPC Technical Manual Version 2.0* is a comprehensive revision and update of the IPC Technical Manual Version 1.1 and aims at meeting the challenges emerged from the IPC field applications since 2004.  The IPC Manual Version 2.0 offers new innovations, such as the IPC analytical framework, prototype tools for analyzing chronic food insecurity situations and clear functions to guide the work of the IPC analysts from the beginning to the end of their work.  The IPC Manual Version 2.0 also reconciles key differences in approaches to food security analysis among national governments and international agencies, allowing for greater buy-in and collaboration.

The IPC Technical Manual Version 2.0 is the result of two years of technical consultations and field testing involving hundreds of professionals from different countries and regions. It gathers the inputs of national governments, NGOs, UN agencies, donors, and academic institutions, and it was made possible by the support of several funding agencies, and in particular the European Union.

The IPC Technical Manual Version 2.0 has been released initially in English, with other languages (French, Spanish and Arabic) following as soon as possible thereafter.

Download the IPC Technical Manual V2.0

IPC Version 2.0 Launch Event > Photo Gallery

About IPC > www.ipcinfo.org

The event HUNGER TALKS is organised by ACF on Friday 19th October and hosted by Birkbeck University.

Click here to find out more.

FAO's jointly published The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 (SOFI) is released today - and it shows that one in eight people in the world was suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-12. The UN report is published by FAO and its Rome-based partners WFP and IFAD. While the global number of hungry people declined by almost 130 million between 1990-92 and 2010-12, the report says global progress in reducing hunger has slowed and levelled off in the past five years. Director-General José Graziano da Silva presented a joint press conference with the other agencies' leaders at Rome headquarters today. For his reaction and further details, click here.  

 

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya's (UOC) Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are partnering to offer a fully accredited, online certificate entitled: “Assessing Impact of Development Programmes on Food Security” starting 24 October 2012. This 4 month joint online UOC/FAO Specialization provides a comprehensive understanding and guidance for assessing the impact of development programmes on food security.

Courses run from 24 October 2012 to 24 February 2013

Certificate fee € 1,100

To register or for more information, please contact UOC directly by phone +34 93 165 42 43 or by email: [email protected] or [email protected]