Nutrition

Capacity development

FAO is actively supporting regional and country capacities to shape food systems that enable healthy diets. Developing appropriate food systems policies and actions entails improving governments' and non-State actors' capacities for carrying out the necessary actions. To achieve this goal, FAO has developed a Capacity Development Roadmap in support of the revised Vision and Strategy for FAO's Work in Nutrition (FAO's Nutrition Strategy). The Roadmap will steer the capacity development activities by addressing current gaps and leveraging opportunities. To know more about the Capacity Development Roadmap and its implementation click here.

Main resources by thematic area

FAO has developed a series of technical papers, policy briefs, manuals, e-learning courses, webinars and videos to assist partners in the design and implementation of appropriate, informed and coherent food systems policies and actions.

Click on the thematic areas to know more about our capacity development resources and publications.

Resources

Section: Nutrition requirements

Report of a FAO Expert Working Group meeting, held at the St. John’s Research Institute (SJRI), an IAEA Collaborating Centre, in Bangalore, India, from 2 to 5 March 2014.

Following the 2011 FAO Expert Consultation on dietary protein quality evaluation in...

Section: Nutrition policies and programmes

"We, Ministers and Representatives of the Members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), assembled at the Second International Conference on Nutrition in Rome from 19 to 21 November 2014,...

Section: Nutrition policies and programmes

The Strategy sets out FAO’s vision and role in nutrition, taking a people-centred approach and applying four key

principles to contribute to three outcomes designed to be linked to FAO’s Strategic Objectives. Five criteria for

prioritizing FAO’s work in...

Section: Nutrition policies and programmes

The International Symposium on Food and Nutrition Security: Food-based Approaches for Improving Diets and Raising Levels of Nutrition was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2013 to better document the contribution that food...

Section: Nutrition policies and programmes

This publication presents the proceedings of a two-day symposium convened in Khon Khan, Thailand in 2014. Indigenous people living in rural areas often possess and consume food resources that are not completely understood by mainstream agriculture and health sectors. Many...