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The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2016 (SOFIA)
This issue of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture aims to provide objective, reliable and up-to-date data and information to a wide range of readers – policy-makers, managers, scientists, stakeholders and indeed all those interested in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. As always, the...
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Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2016: the Challenges of Building Resilience to Shocks and Stresses
Since 2015, Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced severe climate-induced disruptions as a result of the El Niño weather phenomenon. The severity and extent of the ongoing El Niño, with its related droughts and floods have been considered the worst since the turn of the century, and have affected the...
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FAO/INFOODS food composition database for pulses
The FAO/INFOODS Global food composition database for pulses (uPulses) provides nutrient values for pulses, a subgroup of legumes that includes dry edible seeds with low fat content. The majority of data are analytical data complemented by data from other published sources covering data on proximates...
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Multi-level Advocacy for Nutrition
Policy advocacy has played a critical role in pushing nutrition up national and international agendas; it has raised awareness among key stakeholders of the underlying and immediate causes of malnutrition and its human, economic and other consequences. However, few studies have looked at nutrition...
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Understanding the Codex Alimentarius
The Codex Alimentarius is a collection of international food standards that have been adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Such standards cover all the main foods and also material used in the further processing of food. Codex provisions concern the hygienic and nutritional; quality of food...
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Assessing food value chain pathways, linkages and impacts for better nutrition of vulnerable groups
This article offers insights into assessing the effectiveness of post farm-gate agri-food value chains at improving the nutrition intake of vulnerable groups. It develops a conceptual framework integrating the value chain concepts with agriculture and nutrition, and identifies key outcomes and...
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Influencing food environments for healthy diets
More and more people are becoming overweight and obese, with increasing diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Behind the global shifts in malnutrition and NCDs are unhealthy diets and a sedentary lifestyle. Our food systems and the food environments are not delivering on the diets needed to...
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Consultation
Open discussion on the first draft work programme of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition
This consultation invites you to share your views on the first draft work programme of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition. The final work programme will be discussed with the Member States during the World Health Assembly (May 2017) and the FAO Conference (June 2017).
Webinar: Fostering Learning and Innovation in Nutrition
The SUN Civil Society Network invites you to participate in the Learning Route follow up webinar:
Fostering Learning and Innovation in Nutrition
Date: 31st January 2017
Time: 10:15 - 12:00 (GMT)
Language: English (translation in Frengh and Spanish will be available for the Q&A sessions)
At the end of October the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Civil Society Network, in collaboration with SUN Alliance Rwanda and PROCASUR Corporation, launched the first international Learning Route exchange programme in Rwanda. This six day peer-to-peer learning exchange brought together alliances from 9 African countries to learn from innovations being used by stakeholders in Rwanda including civil society to scale up nutrition. The Learning Route focused on key areas of intervention including multi stakeholder coordination, communication for behavioural change, social mobilisation, value chains and decentralisation. As result of the LR exchange, each Alliance submitted an “Innovation Plan”.
Join the webinar to find out more about the learning and innovations developed by the Alliances.
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FAO KIDS - Nutritional benefits of pulses
This comic strip, marking the International Year of Pulses (IYP) 2016, highlights the nutritional benefits of pulses. It introduces children to the risks of malnutrition and to the key role of pulses as part of a healthy diet. The comic strip is part of the series “FAO Kids”. The FAO kids are five...
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