Nutrition security

  1. Africa’s first Water Fund to tackle rising threats to food security, water and energy supplies
    Every rainy season Jane Kabugi’s home comes under attack. The torrential rain so desperately needed downstream to fuel Kenya’s rising electricity demands – and Nairobi’s water requirements – has literally been tearing her home and farm apart.   “There was a time when this house of mine…
  2. The intersection between agriculture and nutrition: the Agriculture-Nutrition Community of Practice
    Over the past three years GFAR has been advocating for better nutrition and sustainable agriculture. This included sponsorship of a specific workshop co-hosted with the EAT Stockholm Food Forum following on from the Rome ICN2 in 2014, which examined the metrics require to integrate nutrition…
  3. Discovery of beans that can beat the heat could save “meat of the poor” from global warming
    Source: CGIAR   As a result of a major breakthrough, beans – once feared to be a casualty of climate change – are now set to withstand extreme temperatures, protecting a staple food of the poor in developing countries.   Amidst fears that global warming could zap a…
  4. GCHERA Conference 2015 – Call for abstracts
    The GCHERA 8th World Conference “Universities’ Global Challenge: nutritional security and environmental sustainability for human health” will be held from 25 to 26 June 2015.  The conference will be held at Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon…
  5. Advances in nutrition: myth or reality?
    Since 2005-06, the date of the last nationwide government survey of nutrition, the story has been one of a curse, a national shame and a disconnect. This is because despite rapid economic growth in the past 15 years, nutrition indicators for children under five have barely moved.   Can we now…
  6. 8 Reasons Why Nutritious Food helps break the Cycle of Extreme Poverty
    That uncomfortable feeling when you’re so hungry you lose all control of your emotions. So convinced the world is conspiring against you, you lash out at whoever dares to cross your path. And so depleted of energy, you can no longer perform basic functions like rational decision making. Yeah,…
  7. Asian Maize Conference Develops Strategies for Sustainable Intensification of Maize in Asia
    Source: CIMMYT   More than 350 leading agricultural researchers, policy-makers, farmers and service providers from across the public and private sectors gathered in Bangkok from 30th October - 1st November for the 12th Asian Maize Conference. Organized by the Asia-Pacific Association…
  8. FAO sends message on the global need for agroecology
    Written by: Gina Castillo, Agriculture Program Manager at Oxfam America   UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Secretary General, Jose Graziano da Silva, reminded the audience during his closing remarks at the FAO’s Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition last week…
  9. How to dramatically reduce hunger - even in very poor countries
    GFAR has been advocating to policy makers that they shift from a traditional focus on productivity and production to address nutrition and health challenges. FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva outlines three types of political initiatives crucial to sustaining progress on food…
  10. Invitation to an open discussion on the ICN2 Framework for Action zero draft to implement the Rome Declaration on Nutrition
    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), in cooperation with IFAD, IFPRI, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, WFP, WTO and the High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis (HLTF), are jointly organizing the Second…
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