المنتدى العالمي المعني بالأمن الغذائي والتغذية

In order to maximise the impact of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition, food security and food production systems, and availability of methodological capability to monitor progress and evaluate programme effectiveness will be very important. The IAEA can make contribution by providing comparative advantage in the deployment of objective, specific and sensitive nuclear techniques to evaluate nutrition and nutrition-sensitive programmes. The following specific issues will require attention.

  1. Ensure improved soil quality – replenish lost nutrients including, through inter-cropping in addition to known methods that work.
  2. Guarantee water availability for cropping, livestock and fishery
  3. Address land availability and farming systems
  4. Design safer food processing and  storage, and affordable distribution systems, especially so in the case of landless populations
  5. Identify and promote crops and livestock that work and are acceptable in specific contexts keeping in mind circumstances related to shifts in food preferences, gender sensitivity  and climate change
  6. Ensure that food production guarantees dietary diversity and that food processing and preparation at the household level maximise nutrient bioavailability from foods
  7. Create factors that enable farming and food access such as subsidies to farmers and price subsidies on basic  foods
  8. Empower farmers, including women to enable better bargaining for farm produce prices; encourage cooperatives around focal crop/livestock production/fisheries  and communal approach to food production, pricing and marketing
  9. Include income generation activities to avoid food being sold for subsistence e.g. in some African contexts cotton was a key cash crop that was grown alongside food and households did not need to sell food to meet their basic needs
  10. Design behaviour change communication and social marketing strategies to help communities adopt new dietary patterns or revert to hitherto abandoned indigenous eating practices
  11. Ensure gender equity in all aspects
  12. Develop capacity and methods/tools to objectively monitor and evaluate the impact of 1-11 above and conduct good social research to understand why people eat the way they do and understand the underlying causes of dietary behaviour changes.
  13. Multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral working teams will be needed at levels to achieve the above