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SCN News 38 Supplement: ECOWAS Nutrition Forum
01/06/2010 - In this issue: Introduction 11th ECOWAS Nutrition Forum, Soaring food prices, climate change and bioenergy, Collaborating on nutrition and food security: implications for the [...]
Assessing the Environmental Impacts of consumption and Production Priority Products and Materials
01/01/2010 - The purpose of this report is to assess the best-available science from a global perspective to identify priorities among industry sectors, consumption categories and materials. For the first time, [...]
Double Pyramid: healthy food for people, sustainable food for the planet
01/01/2010 - Modern lifestyles tend to have a growing impact on the ecological equilibrium of our Planet. Particularly in the area of diet, models of consumption inconsistent with the goals of environmental [...]
Human Health and Well-Being in an Era of Energy Scarcity and Climate Change
01/01/2010 - This publication is an excerpted chapter from The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises that features essays by some of the world’s most provocative [...]
World Hunger Series - Hunger and Markets
04/02/2009 - This third edition of the World Hunger Series examines the complex relationship between markets and hunger. The report could not be more relevant or timely. In recent years, we have witnessed how high [...]
Feeling the heat: Child survival in a changing climate
11/01/2009 - A child’s chances of survival will increasingly depend on how climate change contributes to existing vulnerabilities and how well communities are able to adapt. This report examines those [...]
Food Safety and Trade Liberalization in an Age of Globalization
04/08/2008 - While globalization brings opportunities for economic growth, international trade creates opportunities for the globalization of unsafe food. As trade liberalization opens the territorial boundaries [...]
Food Processing Pilot Centres - An approach to productive capacity-building for trade and poverty alleviation in Africa
11/06/2007 - Poverty is known to be spreading in rural areas, where populations rely directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihood. Despite efforts undertaken to develop agricultural production, more [...]
Bioversity Blog: Why governments should look to agricultural biodiversity to contribute to the Decade of Action on Nutrition
30/11/1601 - In her latest blog post in DG Dialogues, M. Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International welcomes the Decade of Action on Nutrition and highlights the important role that agricultural [...]
Call for papers: Special Issue
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01/01/1970 - Deadline for submission: 14 February 2020 Manuscripts should address food environment and/or sustainable diet topics, including their linkages. Contributions may include literature [...]
Guidance Note on Integration of Nutrition in the United Nations Development Assistance Framework
30/11/1801 - The purpose of this Guidance Note is to assist United Nation Country Teams (UNCTs) with the integration of nutrition into the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), using a [...]
Webinar Series: The International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes
30/11/1701 - The SUN Civil Society Network, in collaboration with Helen Keller International and UNICEF, is hosting a series of webinars to increase understanding, implementation and monitoring of the Breast-Milk [...]