REACH was established in 2008 by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the World Health Organization (WHO) to assist governments of countries with a high burden of child [...]

In 2012 the European Commission proposed a new strategy for the Horn of Africa - Supporting Horn of Africa Resilience (SHARE) - which aims at breaking the vicious cycle of crises in the region. In the framework of SHARE, the [...]

UNFCCC raises awareness on agriculture and food security concerns for the next global climate change agreements, which would result in integration of climate change challenges into food security as well as food security principles into national sectoral policies and programmes [...]

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security promote secure tenure rights and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests as a means of eradicating hunger and [...]

The objective of the Voluntary Guidelines is to provide practical guidance to States in their implementation of the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, in order to achieve the goals of [...]

UN Secretary General’s Zero Hunger Challenge (ZHC) was launched at the Rio+20 Summit in June 2012. The ZHC encourages investment in five major areas of work ranging from increasing agricultural productivity, incomes and access to food, and strengthening the sustainability [...]