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

Report of a workshop held in Kalk Bay, South Africa, December 2008.

ODI Briefing Paper The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) aims to promote agriculture throughout the EU by increasing farmers’ incomes and supporting the provision of public goods such as the environment. It is funded from the European Commission (EC) budget and accounts for roughly 40% of total EC...

Knowledge is only effective when it is shared and made available to the broadest possible range of people. This is especially true when aiming at effectively combating worldwide hunger and malnutrition which multidimensional causes require being always well informed on a wide range variety of...

Le projet de la FAO relatif aux Critères et Indicateurs sur la Bioénergie et la Sécurité Alimentaire (BEFSCI) a élaboré une série d’indicateurs qui peuvent être utilisés pour évaluer les impacts de la bioénergie sur la sécurité alimentaire tant au niveau national que du projet. En outre, le projet...

Report of a workshop held in Kalk Bay, South Africa, December 2008.

Food and Nutrition Security: Comprehensive Framework for Action The United Nations System High Level Task Force on Global Food Security released a summary version of its Updated Comprehensive Framework for Action (UCFA). The UCFA is the UN system-wide coordinated approach for supporting country and...

In the years ahead, development efforts aiming at reducing vulnerability will increasingly have to factor in climate change, and social protection is no exception. This paper sets out the case for climate‐responsive social protection and proposes a framework with principles, design features, and...

A presentation of Goldman Sachs analysis: a 5-year outlook on agriculture, livestock and biofuels.

This paper gives estimates of the potential profitability of herbicide-tolerant (HT) rice cultivation in the Sacramento Valley region of California. We estimate first-year returns for the average producer and use both deterministic and stochastic methods to perform sensitivity analysis to account...

The 2011 Global Food Policy Report is a new annual IFPRI publication that provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, national, and local levels. It highlights important developments and events in food policy that occurred in 2011...