Policy, coherence and advocacy
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Reaching those left furthest behind: Addressing hunger and poverty in protracted crises
12/07/2017 - 12 July 2017, 13:15 - 14:30 EDT - United Nations HQ, Conference Room 6 (New York, USA) CFS side event at the 2017 High Level Political Forum (HLPF).Why are protracted crises situations [...]
Addressing the hunger-poverty nexus: What policy coherence means for the 2030 Agenda
12/07/2017 - 12 July 2017, 13:15 - 14:30 EDT - United Nations HQ, Conference Room 6 (New York, USA) CFS side event at the 2017 High Level Political Forum (HLPF). This event is co-organized with the European [...]
Launch event: HLPE Report on Sustainable Forestry for Food Security and Nutrition
27/06/2017 - 27 June, FAO HQ, Rome At its 41st session in October 2014, the CFS requested the HLPE to prepare a study on Sustainable Forestry for Food Security and Nutrition, to feed into the CFS Plenary session [...]
Policy Guidance Series - Strengthening Sector Policies for Better Food Security and Nutrition Results
01/06/2017 - Achieving the food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture goals by 2030 requires a coordinated set of actions on a number of fronts: coherent policies and programmes, an increase of [...]
WHO Ambition and action in nutrition 2016-2025
17/05/2017 - WHO Ambition and action in nutrition 2016-2025 aims to define the unique value of WHO for advancing nutrition and to focus the Organization on what it does best. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable [...]
Improving nutrition through enhanced food environments - Policy Brief No. 7
10/05/2017 - Today’s food systems are failing to drive improvements in nutrition. More than two billion people suffer from a serious lack of vitamins and minerals, and over 200 million children are stunted [...]
CFS Intersessional events on Nutrition
09/05/2017 - Mark your calendars for the two CFS Advancing Nutrition events in partnership with UNSCN! Investments for Healthy Food SystemsTuesday, 9 May 2017, 09:30 – 17:00, Red Room, FAO HQ, Rome and via [...]
Joint child malnutrition estimates - Levels and trends (2017 edition)
01/05/2017 - UNICEF-WHO-The World Bank Group The inter-agency team released new joint estimates for child stunting, overweight, underweight, wasting and severe wasting (May 2017 edition) using the same [...]
Apply now: Food Sustainability Media Award
24/04/2017 - Application deadline: 31 May 2017 Media and effective communication have the power to engage people, induce behavioural change and make all of us contribute to the creation of a more equitable and [...]
UNSCN Discussion Paper - By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition and leave no one behind
18/04/2017 - The paper aims to present the centrality of nutrition in the current sustainable development agenda. It provides an overview of the numerous and inter-related nutrition targets that have been [...]
UNSCN Discussion Paper - Global Governance for Nutrition and the role of UNSCN
27/03/2017 - This paper aims to describe the current nutrition architecture and provides a detailed overview of the main nutrition actors and their mandate. It highlights the role of UNSCN in the architecture [...]
E-consultation: How can value chains be shaped to improve nutrition?
27/03/2017 - The Rome-based Agencies (RBA) and FAO’s Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) are joining forces for the open online consultation “How can value chains be shaped to [...]
2017 Global food policy report
27/03/2017 - IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2016, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2017 at the global and regional [...]
Guidelines on assessing biodiverse foods in dietary surveys
13/03/2017 - Biodiversity is critical to the availability of nutrients in a diversified diet that supports health and well-being, as well as to the sustainability of the natural resource base upon which food [...]
Work Programme of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition – First Draft
19/02/2017 - The First Draft of the Work Programme of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition is now available in all six official UN languages. To comment on this text, we welcome you to visit the online discussion [...]
