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
This synthesis aims to provide an updated and complete list of current guidance, institutional strategies and other publications released by international development institutions and inter-agency UN bodies on maximizing nutrition impact through agriculture, and provides a summary of the key...
Food composition data can be expressed in a variety of ways. However, to aggregate or compare data from different sources, it is neccessary to harmonize them. Errors often occur in the conversion from one unit, denominator or expression to another....
06 September 2012
Food matching links food consumption/supply data with food composition data. As food matching procedures are critical to obtaining high quality estimations of nutrient intakes (for nutrition purposes) or of dietary exposure (for food safety purposes), INFOODS developed these guidelines for...
06 September 2012
These Guidelines reflect the different stages of 'food composition database' management until the production of user tables and databases.
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05 September 2012
FAO/INFOODS prepared this database to provide a tool for researchers and professionals to convert volume into weight and vice-versa. Data were collected from the literature, various national food composition tables and measurements conducted by the authors.