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

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Quel rôle peuvent jouer les services de conseil et de vulgarisation agricole pour parvenir à l’égalité des sexes et améliorer la nutrition?

Au cours de cette discussion, les participants ont échangé des idées sur le rôle que devraient jouer les Services de vulgarisation et de conseil agricoles en matière de développement au sens large. Les participants ont été notamment invités à présenter des exemples de services de vulgarisation et de...

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La FAO à la 11ème Conférence ministérielle de l'OMC à Buenos Aires, Argentine (MC11)

Les liens entre commerce et sécurité alimentaire bénéficient d’une attention accrue dans les programmes axés sur le commerce et le développement. Le commerce équitable est reconnu comme un facteur déterminant en vue d’atteindre les objectifs du Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030 et l'Objectif Faim Zéro dans le contexte des changements climatiques.

Compte tenu de l’évolution constante des modes de consommation et de production, le commerce mondial de produits agricoles devrait continuer de croître au cours de la prochaine décennie. Le défi consiste maintenant à faire en sorte que l'expansion du commerce agricole œuvre en faveur de l'élimination de la faim, de la malnutrition et de l'insécurité alimentaire à l'échelle mondiale. Ce défi est au cœur de l’appui fourni par l’Organisation pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) à ses États Membres en vue de la préparation d'accords commerciaux, en particulier sous l'égide de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC).

La FAO, en collaboration avec des partenaires clés, organisera et participera à divers événements en marge de la 11ème Conférence ministérielle de l'OMC à Buenos Aires. Nous encourageons fortement ceux qui sont accrédités à se joindre à nous et à participer à l'un des événements mentionnés ci-dessous. Ce sera une excellente occasion de faire part des expériences de vos pays en matière d’atteinte de la sécurité alimentaire et d'amélioration de la nutrition dans le cadre du système commercial multilatéral de l'OMC. 

Call for Contributions for UNSCN News

Open until 31 January 2018



UNSCN NEWS is the flagship, peer-reviewed publication of the UNSCN. The 2018 edition will focus on equity and non-discrimination as drivers of good nutrition.



Inherent barriers exist in food systems that prevent people from overcoming persistent and intergenerational malnutrition and poverty. In order to overcome these barriers and ensure that no one is left behind, systematic analysis of food system dynamics, as well as the various causes of malnutrition, will help assess how equity impacts and is impacted by nutrition.



Inequality refers to differences, variation and disparities in the living conditions of individuals and groups. Inequity adds a moral dimension, referring to the process by which certain outcomes are produced, to the way in which wealth is distributed, and to how needs are assessed and addressed (adapted from Norheim and Asada’s definition, 2009). Equity is concerned with fairness and social justice and aims to focus on people’s needs rather than the provision of services to reach the greatest number of people.



Drivers of malnutrition can intersect and overlap, intensifying the exclusion of certain groups of people. These may be difficult for an external audience to address but are intimately understood by those affected. Therefore, marginalised and deprived people should be empowered to set their own priorities and be equipped to participate meaningfully in decision making processes, advise on the implementation of the approaches and monitor and evaluate the outcomes to ensure that the benefits reach the intended targets. If this goes ignored, the international community will fail to utilise the local knowledge and expertise available and continue holding people back from reaching their full potential.



The progressive realisation of the right to adequate food requires States to fulfil their human rights obligations under international law. There are several international instruments available in which the progressive realisation of the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, is enshrined. These include: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (Art 25), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Art 2 and 11), UN Charter (Art 55 and 56), the Convention of the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the four Geneva Conventions and their two Additional Protocols. Only when a human rights approach is taken will the international community be able to work according the principles of universality, indivisibility, participation, accountability, transparency and non-discrimination. In the forthcoming edition of UNSCN News, we intend to explore the principle of equity and non-discrimination.



In September 2015, more than 193 member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda is people centered and prioritizes leaving nobody behind. This means not just focusing on ensuring progress for entire countries, reflected by averages, but looking specifically at the people who do not benefit from development because current strategies have been unsuccessful in reaching them. The proclamation of the Nutrition Decade amplifies that message and provides a springboard for the realisation of the SDGs. It intensifies the urgency to act and generates new energy in support of the achievement of the Global Nutrition Targets, diet related NCDs and invites the nutrition community to work with non-traditional sectors such as trade, environment and human rights.



KEY QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION

  • How do different forms of inequity affect malnutrition and how can the barriers in the food systems preventing people to get out of malnutrition be overcome?
  • How can human rights law and institutions more systematically underpin efforts aimed at bettering human nutrition?
  • How can the insights and tools of the socially oriented nutrition community help to identify how human rights principles should guide development, enhancing sustainable positive effects for the human being and for society?
  • What examples demonstrate the potential for nutrition to unveil the biological outcomes of discriminatory practices?
  • What is the role of full transparency, especially when it comes to the availability of data and nutrition relevant information?
  • How can the collection of disaggregated data be improved to ensure that inequalities become visible?
  • How can the nutrition community help the development community better recognize that, in many situations, the connection between income and dietary adequacy is not linear?

We welcome contributions on the following categories:



Feature articles: 3,000 words articles related to the general topic of the publication. The articles will be submitted to peer review and can include conceptual contributions or practical examples of policies and programmes.



Publications: recent publications of relevance to nutrition, including manuals, tools and guidelines that are usually not found in regular bookstores. Max. 200 words per submission.



Speaker's Corner: 1,500 words articles with the authors’ views regarding a hot topic in nutrition policy or programme. The section sometimes features a counterpoint by another author holding an opposite opinion to stimulate debate on important issues.



Please send your contributions electronically to the UNSCN News to [email protected] with the title “UNSCN NEWS 43 Proposal”. For editorial information, please refer to the UNSCN News Guidelines for Contributors available here.



Deadline: 31 January 2018

Launch of the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition report

Accra/Abidjan/Rome - The number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa has increased mainly due to the impact of conflict and climate change with the situation pointing to the urgent need to build affected communities' resilience and to find peaceful solutions that strengthen food security,  FAO said today.

The prevalence of chronic undernourishment appears to have risen from 20.8 to 22.7 percent between 2015 and 2016, according to FAO's Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition report (2017).

This year's report, which features the theme: "The Food Security and Nutrition - Conflict Nexus: Building Resilience for Food Security, Nutrition and Peace" was launched today at the joint FAO/WHO Africa Regional Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition, taking place in Abidjan from 16 to 17 November 2017.  

Asia and the Pacific Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition

 The Asia Pacific Symposium (10-11 November 2017, Bangkok) links to the FAO and WHO International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition held in Rome in December 2016, and is one of four follow-up events focused on specific world regions. The aims are to enhance agriculture and food systems’ visibility, create policy and programme options, promote sustainable diets and build partnerships through taking stock of evidence on transformational change in food systems toward sustainability, and their link to positive health and nutrition outcomes.  The Symposium will also develop and strengthen information platforms on nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems for countries in the region so that they can share that knowledge amongst consumers, producers and other stakeholders. Major interventions for good nutrition governance and effective local level implementation will be identified and promoted. 

The Asia-Pacific region, home to most of the world’s undernourished people, needs urgent action to improve diets and reset its food systems which are critical to the delivery of healthy, nutritious foods, FAO said today. According to the findings of FAO’s 2017 Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition report, there is a pressing need to tackle malnutrition alongside further promotion of the consumption of healthier foods while curbing the growth in consumption of unhealthy foods.

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E- learning course: Trade, food security and nutrition

The relationship between trade and food security is attracting increased attention on both the trade and development agendas, with trade recognized as one of the means for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This course addresses the linkages between trade and food security, which...

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Infographic: Sustainable forestry for food security and nutrition

Worldwide, 795 million people go hungry every day. This figure could be reduced, benefiting millions of people, through the wider adoption and implementation of sustainable forest management as a key component of integrated landscape management, resulting in better protected ecosystem services, more...

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The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition - Advancing knowledge. Supporting policy-making. Impacting lives.

This new publication presents the work of the FSN Forum, offering an overview of how Forum activities and its vast network of participants around the world help FAO to tackle the root causes of poverty and hunger and support countries, organizations and communities in their efforts to improve lives.