Consultation
Improving communications for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Africa: How should we move forward?
The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is complicating the management of many infectious diseases. It endangers animal health and welfare, food production and adversely affects the functioning of human, animal and plant health systems and economies. What can be done to communicate these risks effectively, ensuring the proactive participation of stakeholders at all levels in adressing this issue?
Consultation
The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement and agricultural development: challenges and prospects
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement presents Africa with a unique opportunity to unleash its economic potential for inclusive growth and sustainable development. For it to be conducive to food security and improved nutrition it is widely agreed that AfCFTA will have to be supported with accompanying measures and policies. This online discussion aims at opening an exchange of ideas, good practices and lessons learned on the challenges and prospects to the implementation of the AfCFTA in the agricultural sector.
Consultation
How can agricultural policies and strategies help to end child labour in agriculture?
Today, approximately 71% of child labour, or 108 million children worldwide, is found in the agriculture sector. Child labour perpetuates a cycle of poverty for the children involved, their families and communities, where they are likely to be the rural poor of tomorrow. This online discussion will be instrumental to identify and document good and promising practices for which evidence-based research and replication could be explored.
Reports and briefs
Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food and nutrition security - an overview
The important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity and maintaining traditional landscapes, rural traditions and cultural heritage is widely accepted. Nevertheless, they are often under the radar of the agriculture policy mechanisms, which tend to focus...
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Reports and briefs
Can small farms and small food businesses in Northern Europe contribute to sustainable food security?
There is widespread acknowledgement and appreciation in Northern Europe of the important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity, and maintaining traditional landscapes, rural traditions and cultural heritage. The EU-funded SALSA project set out to examine...
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Reports and briefs
Can small farms and small food businesses of Eastern European Countries contribute to sustainable Food and Nutrition Security?
Small farms in Eastern Europe contribute to a large extent to overall regional production. In 43% of the food systems, their produce is also consumed locally, enhancing food access for their households and communities. However, the food systems in which Eastern European (EE) small farms are embedded...
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Summaries of consultations
Food security and nutrition policy dialogues in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia 2016–2019 - A retrospective
This publication is a compendium of the main outcomes of the online stakeholder dialogue organized by the project “ Developing Capacity for Strengthening Food Security and Nutrition in Selected Countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia ”, funded by the Russian Federation, in collaboration with the...
Webinars and workshops
Migration, remittances and matching grants
This webinar looked into the role that migration and the flow of remittances can have on the food security and nutrition situation in both countries of origin and those hosting migrants.
Consultation
Mainstreaming gender for sustainable soil management
Closing the gender gap in access to productive resources and services is crucial for the achievement of a Zero Hunger world. This online discussion aims at collecting the views from a wide range of stakeholders about the relations between gender equality, sustainable soil management and food security.
Reports and briefs
Monitoring food security in countries with conflict situations
The report provides an overview of the magnitude, severity and drivers of acute food insecurity in eight countries and regions that have the world’s highest burden of people in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance as a result of protracted conflict combined with other factors...
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