Forum global sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (Forum FSN)

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) has launched a portal - the first such comprehensive platform - to track international capacity development support to developing countries in forest monitoring for climate action. The portal - the GFOI Inventory of Activities - is a one-stop shop with easy-to-access information on more than 400 forest monitoring activities in 70 developing

Tuesday, 26 November 2019 / 15.30-10.00 UTC+1 Commonly, FBDGs messages are aimed at the general public or at specific population groups (e.g. pregnant/lactating women, children younger than 2 years old), and are meant to be designed in a meaningful way, in order to be memorable and actionable for the target audience (i.e. to inspire and enable people to implement the FBDGs recommendations in their

Home Gardens For Resilience and Recovery (HG4RR) is mapping the current state of small-scale garden interventions in conflict-affected and emergency settings. We would like to know more about what gardening interventions have already been implemented in these settings. Your replies will be used to classify the types of garden interventions across different emergency settings, to understand what

Most food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) are accompanied by a graphic which expresses recommendations in a visual format, such as a plate or pyramid, in order to facilitate understanding by the general population. However, details on how the proportionalities of food groups depicted are arrived at are often not published, and there does not appear to be one clear way of doing this. Several

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2019) was launched today in New York City. The report gives an updated estimate of the number of hungry people in the world, including regional and national breakdowns, and provides the latest data on child stunting and wasting as well as on adult and child obesity. This year, for the first time, the report also present the estimates of a

The fifteenth joint edition of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook provides market projections for major agricultural commodities, biofuels and fish. The 2019 report contains a special feature on the prospects and challenges of the agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. Download the full report (projections by commodity listed separately) Executive Summary Press release

A solid evidence base is a pre-requisite for food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) to be able to address country-specific nutrition needs while being socially, culturally and economically appropriate. With the increasing burden of overweight and obesity and other modern sustainable development challenges, the evidence base must thus reflect these evolving considerations. In addition, amidst

A new video presents the rationale behind EVAL-ForwARD, a Community of Practice on evaluation for Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Development jointly supported by the evaluation offices of FAO, WFP and IFAD. The objectives of EVAL-ForwARD are to enhance awareness and capacities at country-level about evaluation in the agriculture, food security and rural development sectors, with a close

Organizational Setting Food and Nutrition Security Impact, Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation (FIRST) is a partnership programme between FAO and the European Union. FIRST supports countries in strengthening the enabling policy and institutional environment for food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture. The Programme also contributes to informing global strategic thinking on

As part of an international research collaboration on environmental cause prioritization, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) of the Leiden University is conducting a short, anonymous survey among experts in either biodiversity & ecosystems or agriculture & food security. The survey aims to rank different environmental challenges based on their importance for either of these two fields