The State of Food and Agriculture - Women in Agriculture
Women in Agriculture - Closing the gender gap for development.
View ArticleSustainable Diets and Biodiversity
Directions and solutions for policy,research and action
View ArticleA Life Free From Hunger - Tackling Child Malnutrition
As world leaders have been occupied with one economic crisis after another, a hunger and malnutrition crisis affecting millions of children has gone unchecked. While the world has been experiencing...
View ArticleTHE FOME ZERO (ZERO HUNGER) PROGRAM
Eight years ago, the Lula administration attached priority to fighting hunger and promoting food security by launching the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) Project. The “Zero Hunger” strategy was intended to...
View ArticleGrowing Greener City
Towns and cities in the world's developing countries are growing on an unprecedented scale. Ten years ago, an estimated 40 percent of the developing world's population - or 2 billion people - lived in...
View ArticleFood Security Risk Index Map 2013
The index has been developed by the risk analysis company Maplecroft for governments, NGOs and business to use as a barometer to identify those countries which may be susceptible to famine and societal...
View ArticleCombating Micronutrient Deficiencies: Food-based Approaches
This booklet provides a summary of the publication Combating Micronutrient Deficiencies: Food-based Approaches, published jointly by FAO and CAB Interna tional and contains the abstracts and the list of...
View ArticleLet's Glean!
United We Serve Toolkitolkit - by USDA Gleaning is simply the act of collecting excess fresh foods from farms, gardens, farmers markets, grocers, restaurants, state/county fairs, or any other sources...
View ArticleFORESTS FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION AND FOOD SECURITY
It is often the very poorest who are most dependent on forests. Households living on the margins of poverty are exposed to food insecurity at certain times of the year, when income levels drop. This...
View ArticleLes forets au service de la nutrition et de la sécurité alimentaire
Les forêts, les arbres et les systèmes agroforestiers contribuent à la sécurité alimentaire et à la nutrition de maintes façons, mais ces contributions occupent normalement une place limitée dans les...
View ArticleLos bosques para una mejor nutrición y seguridad alimenataria
Los bosques, los árboles y los sistemas agroforestales contribuyen a la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de muchas maneras, pero estas contribuciones generalmente se reflejan muy poco en las...
View ArticleHanci 2012 Infographic
The Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI), published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), examines the political commitment of 45 developing countries to evaluate their policies and...
View ArticleBiodiversity
Over the past hundred years, the variety of seeds planted has dwindled from hundreds to just a handful. Animal diversity is suffering a similar fate. Large commercial farms that focus on specific...
View ArticleLand for sale
This map from Food: An Atlas uses data from the Land Matrix, a public online database of land deals around the world, to track commercial land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the global land...
View ArticleCollecting Food Surplus in Italy
This map charts the efforts of the Fondazione Banco Alimentare (Italian Food Bank) in redistributing food surplus to more than 300 charity organizations in northeastern Italy. In 2011 alone, the Banco...
View ArticleHarvesting the world
It is jaw dropping to see how much agriculture has expanded in the past 300 years. Back in the 18th century, there was hardly enough agriculture to plot on a map in many parts of the world. Today,...
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