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Post-green revolution food systems and the triple burden of malnutrition
Developing country food systems have changed dramatically since the Green Revolution period. At the same time, malnutrition still represents a challenge and is now understood to encompass the three simultaneous dimensions of undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies, and over-nutrition manifest...
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Recognizing Linkages Between Social Protection and Agriculture
Since social protection and smallholder agricultural interventions often cover the same geographic space and target the same households, there are opportunities for synergies and complementarities that strengthen livelihoods of poor rural households. Social protection policies aim to reduce socio...
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La resiliencia de los medios de vida: Programa marco de reducción del riesgo de desastres para la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional
Editión 2013 A través de sus actividades de reducción del riesgo de desastres (RRD), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) busca proteger los medios de vida ante lss choques e incrementar tanto la resiliencia de los sistemas de producción de alimentos...
Launch of the Eurasian Food Security Network
The Eurasian Food Security Network has just been launched with the first online consultation Food Security issues in the Eurasian region: major challenges and G8/G20 initiatives in relation with the regional situation.
The Eurasian Food Security Network was set up for the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS) as a result of the collaboration between the ECFS, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
The ECFS was established in June 2011 within the Moscow State University with the vision to contribute to sustainable agriculture development and natural resource management and to provide research and advisory services on food security matters to beneficiaries in the Eurasian Region and globally.
In support of this objective, the ECFS and FAO's Global Forum for Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) will be running online consultations to bring together stakeholders from governments, civil society organizations, research institutes, academia, and associations allowing them to enter into a dialogue.
Through inputs from a wide set of stakeholders the ECFS aims to get a clear picture of the main challenges to food security and to understand the priorities of the different countries and stakeholder groups.
The main questions tackled in the first online consultation are:
- What are the major challenges facing Eurasian countries in improving their food security situation?
- Are current policies conducive to ensure food security in your country?
- What do the decision makers from the Eurasian region expect from the G8/G20 initiatives in relation to food security issues?
The first online consultation, which is being held in both Russian and English, will run until the 16th of June 2013 and is open to everyone interested in the subject.
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Edible insects – Future prospects for food and feed security
This book assesses the potential of insects as food and feed and gathers existing information and research on edible insects. The assessment is based on the most recent and complete data available from various sources and experts around the world. Insects as food and feed emerge as an especially...
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Métodos indígenas de preparación de alimentos: ¿qué impacto tienen sobre la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición?
Las comunidades utilizan sistemas de conocimientos indígenas que se transmiten de generación en generación para preparar sus alimentos. ¿Podemos considerar los métodos indígenas de preparación de alimentos como recurso viable para lograr la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en las comunidades rurales pobres?
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Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps
Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 percent of the agricultural labor force. However, female farmers typically have lower output per unit of land and are much less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male...
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Los bosques y los árboles aportan beneficios para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición: ¿cuál es su opinión?
Los bosques, los árboles en las explotaciones agrícolas y los sistemas agroforestales contribuyen a la seguridad alimentaria, la nutrición y los medios de vida de varias maneras, incluyendo como fuente directa de alimentos, combustible, empleo e ingresos en efectivo.
New course: Linking emergency aid to food and nutrition security 15 – 26 April, 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Wageningen UR-Centre for Development Innovation is organising a new course on Linking Emergency Aid to Food and Nutrition Security. The course offers participants a chance to gain insight in the inter-disciplinary and integrated nature of food and nutrition security in an emergency setting, in particular the role of stakeholders, institutions, and innovative governance/donor interventions to build resilience. In addition, it stimulates participants to consider their own role as manager, policy maker or practitioner, making use of a wide range of principles and tools, to strengthen their interventions to make the transition from emergency towards food and nutrition security.
Asia Pacific Food Situation Update
Themes:
- Typhoon Bopha hits Philippines banana harvest hard
- Global food prices fall slightly in November
- Afghan domestic wheat flour prices rising
- Asia cereals harvest at record level in 2012
- Iran paying higher prices for commodities because of sanctions
- Viet Nam achieves record rice exports
- Indonesia and the Philippines likely to cut rice imports
- Scientists unlock key sections of wheat genome
- Favourable weather helping Afghan wheat crop
- Russian wheat threatened by coldest winter in years