Call for submissions
Call for examples and good practices on investments for healthy food systems
The Committee on World Food Security invites you to share experiences and examples to help identify lessons learned and good practices on investments promoting healthy food systems, including those implemented through south-south and triangular exchanges.
Reports and briefs
Assessing food value chain pathways, linkages and impacts for better nutrition of vulnerable groups
This article offers insights into assessing the effectiveness of post farm-gate agri-food value chains at improving the nutrition intake of vulnerable groups. It develops a conceptual framework integrating the value chain concepts with agriculture and nutrition, and identifies key outcomes and...
Available in:
Consultation
How can value chains be shaped to improve nutrition?
We invite you to contribute to the identification of challenges and opportunities related to Nutrition-sensitive value chains (NSVC) development, the collaboration among partners, as well as identifying good practices and lessons learned from past or on-going NSVC experiences on the ground.
Online discussion on "Agroecology and Nutrition"
TECA (Technologies and practices for small agricultural producers), FAO’s free web based online information and communication platform for smallholders, has launched an online discussion on "Agroecology and Nutrition". The objective of this discussion is to identify successful agroecological farming practices which contribute to nutritious food systems.
Many successful experiences have already been documented on various platforms of FAO, e.g. TECA (during the previous discussions on “Sustainable agriculture through Agroecology” and “Agroecology and Soil Health”) and on Agroecology Knowledge hub. Based on these and other experiences, a three-week discussion will be held, inviting you to share your knowledge and experiences on agroecology and successful agroecological farming practices and approaches.
The discussion page can be accessed through the following link: http://teca.fao.org/discussion/agroecology-and-nutrition
The discussion will be available from 20 March until 12 April 2017.
For any further information please contact: [email protected].
FAO flagships
Europe and Central Asia: Regional Overview of Food Insecurity 2016
Part I of this year’s edition of the State of Food Insecurity in Europe and Central Asia is devoted to the theme of how the nature of food insecurity has evolved in the region over the past 23 years. The familiar four pillars of food security are used to demonstrate how the character of food...
Available in:
FAO flagships
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2016 (SOFIA)
This issue of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture aims to provide objective, reliable and up-to-date data and information to a wide range of readers – policy-makers, managers, scientists, stakeholders and indeed all those interested in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. As always, the...
FAO flagships
Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2016: the Challenges of Building Resilience to Shocks and Stresses
Since 2015, Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced severe climate-induced disruptions as a result of the El Niño weather phenomenon. The severity and extent of the ongoing El Niño, with its related droughts and floods have been considered the worst since the turn of the century, and have affected the...
Available in:
Trainings, tools and databases
FAO/INFOODS food composition database for pulses
The FAO/INFOODS Global food composition database for pulses (uPulses) provides nutrient values for pulses, a subgroup of legumes that includes dry edible seeds with low fat content. The majority of data are analytical data complemented by data from other published sources covering data on proximates...
Available in:
Reports and briefs
Multi-level Advocacy for Nutrition
Policy advocacy has played a critical role in pushing nutrition up national and international agendas; it has raised awareness among key stakeholders of the underlying and immediate causes of malnutrition and its human, economic and other consequences. However, few studies have looked at nutrition...
Available in:
Trainings, tools and databases
Understanding the Codex Alimentarius
The Codex Alimentarius is a collection of international food standards that have been adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Such standards cover all the main foods and also material used in the further processing of food. Codex provisions concern the hygienic and nutritional; quality of food...
Available in: