Early Warning Early Action report on food security and agriculture
The Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) report on food security and agriculture is developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through its EWEA. The system aims to translate forecasts and early warnings into anticipatory action. This report specifically highlights...

推动农业、渔业及林业生物多样性主流化,改善粮食安全与营养水平
生物多样性和生态系统服务在所有各级、以多种方式对农业给予支撑方面发挥着必不可少的作用。人们越来越深刻地认识到这些方面的相互联系对于生计、福利、生产和发展都至关重要。
本在线讨论将有助于进一步界定“生物多样性主流化平台”的目标和伙伴关系并推动相关工作计划的制定工作。

消除极端贫困:农业能发挥怎样的作用?
我们邀请各位参加本次在线讨论,探讨有关极端贫困与粮食不安全之间相互关系的问题。
饥饿与贫困密切相关,这一点毋庸置疑,但应对饥饿和极端贫困的政策和举措却往往各自为政,只着眼其中一个方面。

FAO and the SDGs
On 25 September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – including 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets – committing the international community to end poverty and hunger and achieve sustainable development between...

Towards a water and food secure future
The aim of this paper is to provide policy-makers with a helpful overview of the technical and economic aspects of water use in agriculture, with particular emphasis on crop and livestock production. Through 2050, in many countries, agriculture will remain an important determinant of economic growth...

关于制定《化肥管理行为守则》的在线磋商
本在线磋商邀请各位就制定《化肥管理行为守则》(CoCoFe)提出意见和建议。该守则的目的是帮助成员国为化肥可持续利用制定政策和监管框架。
Call for Contributions for UNSCN News
Open until 31 January 2018
UNSCN NEWS is the flagship, peer-reviewed publication of the UNSCN. The 2018 edition will focus on equity and non-discrimination as drivers of good nutrition.
Inherent barriers exist in food systems that prevent people from overcoming persistent and intergenerational malnutrition and poverty. In order to overcome these barriers and ensure that no one is left behind, systematic analysis of food system dynamics, as well as the various causes of malnutrition, will help assess how equity impacts and is impacted by nutrition.
Inequality refers to differences, variation and disparities in the living conditions of individuals and groups. Inequity adds a moral dimension, referring to the process by which certain outcomes are produced, to the way in which wealth is distributed, and to how needs are assessed and addressed (adapted from Norheim and Asada’s definition, 2009). Equity is concerned with fairness and social justice and aims to focus on people’s needs rather than the provision of services to reach the greatest number of people.
Drivers of malnutrition can intersect and overlap, intensifying the exclusion of certain groups of people. These may be difficult for an external audience to address but are intimately understood by those affected. Therefore, marginalised and deprived people should be empowered to set their own priorities and be equipped to participate meaningfully in decision making processes, advise on the implementation of the approaches and monitor and evaluate the outcomes to ensure that the benefits reach the intended targets. If this goes ignored, the international community will fail to utilise the local knowledge and expertise available and continue holding people back from reaching their full potential.
The progressive realisation of the right to adequate food requires States to fulfil their human rights obligations under international law. There are several international instruments available in which the progressive realisation of the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, is enshrined. These include: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (Art 25), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Art 2 and 11), UN Charter (Art 55 and 56), the Convention of the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the four Geneva Conventions and their two Additional Protocols. Only when a human rights approach is taken will the international community be able to work according the principles of universality, indivisibility, participation, accountability, transparency and non-discrimination. In the forthcoming edition of UNSCN News, we intend to explore the principle of equity and non-discrimination.
In September 2015, more than 193 member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda is people centered and prioritizes leaving nobody behind. This means not just focusing on ensuring progress for entire countries, reflected by averages, but looking specifically at the people who do not benefit from development because current strategies have been unsuccessful in reaching them. The proclamation of the Nutrition Decade amplifies that message and provides a springboard for the realisation of the SDGs. It intensifies the urgency to act and generates new energy in support of the achievement of the Global Nutrition Targets, diet related NCDs and invites the nutrition community to work with non-traditional sectors such as trade, environment and human rights.
KEY QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
- How do different forms of inequity affect malnutrition and how can the barriers in the food systems preventing people to get out of malnutrition be overcome?
- How can human rights law and institutions more systematically underpin efforts aimed at bettering human nutrition?
- How can the insights and tools of the socially oriented nutrition community help to identify how human rights principles should guide development, enhancing sustainable positive effects for the human being and for society?
- What examples demonstrate the potential for nutrition to unveil the biological outcomes of discriminatory practices?
- What is the role of full transparency, especially when it comes to the availability of data and nutrition relevant information?
- How can the collection of disaggregated data be improved to ensure that inequalities become visible?
- How can the nutrition community help the development community better recognize that, in many situations, the connection between income and dietary adequacy is not linear?
We welcome contributions on the following categories:
Feature articles: 3,000 words articles related to the general topic of the publication. The articles will be submitted to peer review and can include conceptual contributions or practical examples of policies and programmes.
Publications: recent publications of relevance to nutrition, including manuals, tools and guidelines that are usually not found in regular bookstores. Max. 200 words per submission.
Speaker's Corner: 1,500 words articles with the authors’ views regarding a hot topic in nutrition policy or programme. The section sometimes features a counterpoint by another author holding an opposite opinion to stimulate debate on important issues.
Please send your contributions electronically to the UNSCN News to [email protected] with the title “UNSCN NEWS 43 Proposal”. For editorial information, please refer to the UNSCN News Guidelines for Contributors available here.
Deadline: 31 January 2018
Technical workshop: The drivers and impacts of migration and labour mobility in origins and destinations
A technical workshop titled: The drivers and impacts of migration and labour mobility in origins and destinations: Building the evidence base for policies that promote safe, orderly and regular people’s and labour mobility for poverty reduction and sustainable development will take place at FAO headquarters, Rome.
The workshop will bring together researchers and policy makers from around the world in an effort to provide evidence, promote understanding, enhance dialogue on migration, labor and people’s mobility for poverty reduction and sustainable development.
The objectives are:
1. Understand the diverse patterns, drivers and impacts of migration and labor mobility to address challenges for achieving sustainable livelihoods transformation, food security and nutrition and poverty reduction.
2. Promote multisector policy approaches to the development of rural areas and rural-urban linkages to facilitate rural transformation and agricultural and food systems’ transitions for economies and societies at large.
The event is available on webcast:
- Webcasting Morning Session: http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4547/icode/
- Webcasting Afternoon Session: http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4549/icode/

第11届世贸组织部长级会议及其对非洲粮食安全的重要意义
在将于2017年12月在布宜诺斯艾利斯举行的第11届世贸组织部长级会议前夕,粮农组织与国际食物政策研究所分别通过粮食安全与营养论坛和国际食物政策研究所粮食安全门户网站围绕第11届世贸组织部长级会议对非洲的影响问题共同提供了分享知识和交流观点的平台。这为提高对贸易与粮食安全之间的关系以及世贸组织协定相对于这些关系的重要性的认识提供了机会。
2017 Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition
The Asia-Pacific region, home to most of the world’s undernourished people, needs urgent action to improve diets and reset its food systems which are critical to the delivery of healthy, nutritious foods, FAO said today. According to the findings of FAO’s 2017 Regional Overview of Food Security and...