Committee on World Food Security
Making a difference in food security and nutrition
Projects & Programmes
The implementation of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition is critical to driving food systems transformation at local, national and regional levels. Several stakeholders and partners are currently implementing the Guidelines as part of their own projects and programmes to drive this transformation.
Food Coalition - Promoting the uptake of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition in the Lao PRD
Food Coalition is a multi-stakeholder platform established to act and accelerate the pace of change towards agrifood systems transformation and to build alliances and collective support for countries most in need and in response to the global priorities of rising food insecurity, intensification of climate shocks, and instability for global food and agriculture.
As a flexible coordination mechanism, the Food Coalition promotes and coordinates responses to national needs and priorities: horizontally across thematic areas of work and vertically from local to global levels, including among all relevant UN agencies, International Organizations, and non-State actors, thus also facilitating innovative multi-actor and multi-country initiatives.
The Food Coalition was also created to support existing FAO efforts to help countries get back on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goals 1 and 2 on eradicating hunger and poverty.
The Food Coalition is structured on five complementary pillars, including Pillar 1 - Response to and recovery from global crises; Pillar 2 - Advocacy for solutions; Pillar 3 - Support and follow-up to G20 Matera Declaration; Pillar 4 - Longer-term solutions developed to transform agrifood systems; and Pillar 5 (Cross-Cutting) - Knowledge sharing and transfer of experts/expertise.
In this context, the Food Coalition is promoting the the uptake of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition in the Lao PRD.
Project by JHU, CIAT, Rikolto Honduras and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction with support by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
A project is being implemented by JHU, CIAT, Rikolto Honduras and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. These four institutions are in charge of a project that is intended to use the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition to strengthen the capacities to implement UNDROP in 4 countries (Ethiopia, Cambodia, Uganda and Honduras).
Five clusters of activities have been identified for this project. And these are:
- Training and capacity building
- Civil society mobilization, awareness raising and advocacy
- Strengthening monitoring and accountability
- Promoting policy coherence
- Evaluating impact of actions
Concept note of the project is available here.