This FAO evidence platform provides evidence and tools to support governments and stakeholders in the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition (VGFSyN) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
To find relevant documents for a VGFSyN recommendation, select a focus area from the left menu and the sub-focus area of your interest. You will be redirected to a page listing all relevant VGFSyN recommendations. Select a recommendation to access the links to the relevant online documents
Focus Area VII
Resilient food systems in humanitarian contexts
This focus area highlights the importance of linking food security and nutrition during humanitarian crises with long-term strategies in accordance with international humanitarian law, universally agreed human rights instruments, and national legislation and strengthening the continuum of the humanitarian response and development, particularly local development, efforts and ensuring coordination among all actors. It provides guidance on: protecting the most vulnerable to malnutrition in humanitarian contexts; improving the quality of food and nutrition assistance; and ensuring food systems are resilient in humanitarian contexts.
3.7.1 Protecting the most vulnerable to malnutrition in humanitarian contexts
The four digit numbering of each recommendation follows the numbering in the VGFSyN, whereby the first digit represents the chapter 3 of the document that includes the 105 recommendations, the second digit the focus area, the third digit the sub-focus
area and the letter the specific recommendation.
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Recommendation 3.7.1.a
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should pay particular attention, to protection issues, and ensure safe and unhindered access to safe, nutritious food and nutritional support to the most vulnerable groups and implement community based nutrition education activities to address malnutrition in humanitarian contexts and should foster access to productive resources and to markets that are remunerative and beneficial to smallholders. This could include using local and sustainably produced food, when possible and when conditions permit. Food should never be used as an instrument for political or economic pressure, and governments should undertake efforts to ensure access to safe and unhindered access to safe drinking water for all, including those in emergency situations, and reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity.
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Recommendation 3.7.1.b
Governments, parties involved in conflicts, international humanitarian organizations and other relevant stakeholders should, where appropriate, ensure safe and unhindered access of all members of affected and at-risk populations to food security and nutrition assistance, in both acute and protracted crises, consistent with internationally recognized humanitarian principles, as anchored in Geneva Convention of 1949 and other [United Nations General Assembly] UNGA Resolutions after 1949.
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Recommendation 3.7.1.c
Governments, with the support of intergovernmental organizations and international assistance and cooperation where appropriate, should ensure safe and unhindered access to safe and nutritious food and nutritional support for refugees, internally displaced people, host communities, and asylum seekers in their territory, in accordance with governments’ obligations under relevant international agreed instruments. This could include using local and sustainably produced food, when possible and when conditions permit. Governments should have, in accordance with national priorities and capacities, emergency preparedness plans in place to ensure food security and nutrition of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups as well as emergency nutrition surveillance with appropriate indicators during crises such as epidemics and pandemics, conflicts and disasters including those induced by climate change.