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SCN News No 30 - Closing the Gap on the Right to Adequate Food: The Voluntary Guidelines

UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Published in : 2005

Available in : English

The focus of this edition of SCN News is on the challenges provided by the new Voluntary Guidelines on realizing the right to adequate food, adopted by the FAO Council last November. The papers include the SCN’s experience of developing case studies on how to strengthen food and nutrition components of national poverty reduction plans. They describe the FAO-led processes that resulted in the Voluntary Guidelines being approved by governments.

Documents :
SCN News No 30 (PDF, 1.68Mb)

Originally posted at : UNSCN - Publications

This resource is listed under:

Themes : Breastfeeding, general, Interventions, general, Nutrition and human rights, general, Nutrition planning, policy and programme, general, Nutrition training and capacity development, general, Undernutrition, general, Vulnerable groups, general, Accountability, Accountability, Food and nutrition policies and strategies, Monitoring and evaluation, Monitoring and evaluation, Nutrition information and education, Nutrition information and education, Poverty, Right to care, Right to food, Right to health

Life-cycle focus : Infancy, Pre-school age, School age, Adulthood

Resource types : Newsletters

Locations : Maldives, Uganda

Working groups : Capacity Development in Food and Nutrition, Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights