Announcements

Haiti - Nutrition-related documents

Haiti earthquake response: useful information resources can be found on the website of the Global Nutrition Cluster http://oneresponse.info/GlobalClusters/Nutrition.

Nutrition relevant documents on Haiti are available under:
http://oneresponse.info/Disasters/Haiti/Nutrition/Pages/default.aspx

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Appel à l’aide pour une alimentation adaptée du nourrisson et du jeune enfant en Haïti

L'UNICEF, l'OMS et le PAM appellent à l'aide pour apporter une alimentation adaptée aux nourrissons et aux jeunes enfants dans la situation d'urgence actuelle et mettent en garde contre les dons et l'usage inutiles et potentiellement nocifs de substituts du lait maternel.

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Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in Haiti

UNICEF, WHO and WFP call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the
current emergency, and caution about unnecessary and potentially harmful donations and use of
breast-milk substitutes.

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Rainer Gross Award

The memory and outstanding career contributions of Rainer Gross are being honored with the first, biennial, RAINER GROSS PRIZE: RECENT INNOVATION IN NUTRITION AND HEALTH IN DEVELOPING SOCIETIES.

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Harmonized Training Package (HTP)

The SCN is hosting the Global Nutrition Cluster Harmonized Training Package (HTP). We welcome your comments to the HTP as well as any relevant training material that you may have developed. Read or download the module documents of the HTP here.

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HAITI: Funding gap for nutrition

HAITI: Funding gap for nutrition, read more.

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IYCN Update, February: The latest on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition

The latest on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition from IYCN. Update February 2010. Please click here to read the newsletter.

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First Issue of J DOHaD now published

The first issue of the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease is now published and can be downloaded for free, read more.

The issue has a review on "The economic cost of a poor start to life" by H. Alderman, click here to read the article.

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Accelerating efforts to advance the rights of adolescent girls

Advancing the rights of adolescent girls: 6 UN agencies have signed a joint statement committing to work on five priorities areas (Joint ILO/UNESCO/UNFPA/UNICEF/UNIFEM/WHO Statement - 3 March 2010)

      1. Educate adolescent girls
      2. Improve adolescent girls' health
      3. Keep adolescent girls free from violence
      4. Promote adolescent girl leaders
      5. Count adolescent girls

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Agribusiness and the right to food

The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Prof. Olivier De Schutter, presents on March 5th in Geneva his report on ‘Agribusiness and the right to food'. Issues related to global food chains and the role of private agribusiness actors in global food security have insufficiently been addressed since the 2008 global food crisis. The report examines the role of commodity buyers, food processors and retailers in the realization of the right to food. These actors play a key role, as they connect producers to consumers, and as they transform raw commodities into edible food. But the vast majority of those who are hungry in the world today are part of the food system; small independent food producers or waged agricultural workers working on farms in the formal or informal sector represent over half of the billion who go hungry today. The report therefore asks how the sourcing, pricing, and wages policies of commodity buyers, food processors and retailers impact the right to food. The report seeks to contribute to a better understanding, by agribusiness corporations and States alike, of their respective responsibilities and obligations under international law. It ends with recommendations to States and the agribusiness sector to ensure that the current transformation of the food chain will contribute to the realization of the right to food. The recommendations relate to a range of areas, including competition law, international framework agreements, cooperatives, and public procurement.
Read the report 'Agribusiness and the right to food' and its summary.
Read the press release 'The imbalance of power between smallholders and agribusiness must be corrected'.
Watch the video presentation.

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