Foro Global sobre Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (Foro FSN)

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) are hosting the event Investments for Healthy Food Systems on 9 May 2017 from 09:30 – 17:00 CET, at FAO HQ, Rome. This event is part of a series of events to “develop common understanding of issues and lay the basis for informed CFS policy convergence work” on nutrition and food systems, called for by the strategy “CFS engagement in advancing nutrition”. In line with this strategy, this event aims to increase common understanding about how policies and investment opportunities can improve nutrition through healthier food systems. The UNSCN Discussion Paper Investments for Healthy Food Systems will serve as the foundation document for the discussion.



The UNSCN Secretariat invites you to actively participate in the event, either in person or through the webcast (www.fao.org/webcast) and live Q&A session on Twitter (#CFS4Nutrition, @UN_CFS). Interpretation services will be provided in all UN official languages.



 

Conjunto de herramientas y módulos de aprendizaje electrónico sobre agricultura y sistemas alimentarios favorables a la nutrición

La FAO acaba de presentar el conjunto de herramientas y los módulos de aprendizaje electrónico sobre agricultura y sistemas alimentarios favorables a la nutrición. Este conjunto integrado de material orientativo, desarrollado en base a la la experiencia de toda la Organización y numerosos socios, tiene por objeto fortalecer la capacidad para la formulación, implementación y supervisión de políticas y programas de sistemas alimentarios favorables a la nutrición, de conformidad con la Declaración de Roma sobre la Nutrición, los ODS y el Decenio de las Naciones Unidas de Acción sobre la Nutrición.

El “Conjunto de herramientas para una agricultura y sistemas alimentarios favorables a la nutrición” consta de cuatro herramientas:

• Recomendaciones fundamentales para mejorar la nutrición en la agricultura y los sistemas alimentarios.
• Diseño de inversiones agrícolas favorables a la nutrición. Lista de comprobación y directrices para la formulación de programas.
• Agricultura y sistemas alimentarios favorables a la nutrición en la práctica. Opciones de intervención.
• Compendio de indicadores para la agricultura favorable a la nutrición.

Los módulos de aprendizaje electrónico sobre agricultura y sistemas alimentarios favorables a la nutrición utilizan un enfoque basado en diversas hipótesis  y en el aprendizaje experimental para ayudar a los responsables de las políticas y a los directores de programas a integrar eficazmente la nutrición en su trabajo.

Ya es posible acceder en Internet a dos módulos:

• Nutrición, seguridad alimentaria y medios de subsistencia: Conceptos básicos
• Mejorar la nutrición a través de la agricultura y los sistemas alimentarios

Estos recursos son gratuitos y pueden descargarse en:

http://www.fao.org/nutrition/politicas-programas/kit-de-herramientas/es/

http://www.fao.org/nutrition/politicas-programas/cursos-en-linea/es/

TECA (Technologies and practices for small agricultural producers), FAO’s free web based online information and communication platform for smallholders, has launched an online discussion on "Agroecology and Nutrition". The objective of this discussion is to identify successful agroecological farming practices which contribute to nutritious food systems.

Many successful experiences have already been documented on various platforms of FAO, e.g. TECA (during the previous discussions on “Sustainable agriculture through Agroecology” and “Agroecology and Soil Health”) and on Agroecology Knowledge hub. Based on these and other experiences, a three-week discussion will be held, inviting you to share your knowledge and experiences on agroecology and successful agroecological farming practices and approaches.

The discussion page can be accessed through the following link: http://teca.fao.org/discussion/agroecology-and-nutrition

The discussion will be available from 20 March until 12 April 2017.

For any further information please contact: [email protected].

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.