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Resources are exclusively related to malnutrition in all its forms, at global level and using multi sector approach. Members are encouraged to upload relevant content (e.g interesting case studies of countries, lessons learned, benchmarking practices, policies and programmes). It will consist of documents dated 2010 onwards.
The UNSCN resources centre is a database of nutrition-related documents and materials. Here, you can retrieve food security and nutrition related documents and/or links that have recently been issued (from 2010 onwards). To access any document issued prior to 2010, please visit the archive section.
Latest Resources
Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food: Report A/HRC/19/59
26/12/2011 - In the Report A/HRC/19/59, submitted to the Human Rights Council in accordance with Council resolution 13/4, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food addresses the links between health and [...]
SCN News 39: Nutrition and Business: How to engage?
23/12/2011 - SCN NEWS 39 focuses on the private sector as stakeholder in nutrition in an attempt to constructively contribute to the global discussion on the role and responsibilities of the private sector [...]
SCN News 39 Supplement: Planning and Financing Nutrition Programmes in ECOWAS
30/11/2011 - In this issue: Report on the technical update session The policy process Costing and financing nutrition policies and programmes Working together for results Plenary discussion report Bulletin [...]
Enhancing women’s leadership to address the challenges of climate change on nutrition security and health
03/03/2011 - Empowering women is a cornerstone of fostering adaptation and addressing the impacts of climate change on nutrition security and health. Through drawing on women’s knowledge and experiences [...]
The Sphere Project - Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response
01/01/2011 - The Humanitarian Charter and minimum standards reflect the determination of agencies to improve both the effectiveness of their assistance and their accountability to their stakeholders, contributing [...]
Climate Change and Nutrition Security - Message to the UNFCCC negotiators
01/11/2010 - The UNSCN policy brief highlights how climate change further exacerbates the already unacceptably high levels of hunger and undernutrition and proposes policy directions to address the nutrition [...]
Global Leadership for Nutrition: The UN’s SCN and its Contributions
01/07/2010 - Summary The UN’s Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) has been functioning for more than 30 years. The SCN fulfils many different functions according to those who work within its structure, [...]
SCN News 38: Climate Change: Food and Nutrition Security Implications
12/06/2010 - "We can rest assured: impacts there will be, regardless of how much some would like to make believe that there is nothing to worry about, either because there is no proof or technology will fix [...]
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 [...]
SCN Networking Event - Nutrition in urban areas
25/03/2010 - SCN Networking Event in Rio de Janeiro on 25 March 2010 The impact of the food and financial crisis on nutrition in urban areas presented by Florence Egal - Presentation The challenge of the double [...]