Food & Nutrition

Farmers, indigenous people and NGOS Demand an End to World Bank's Morally Bankrupt Development.

Washington, D.C. - On October 10, 2014, NGOs, farmers' groups, and indigenous organizations from across the world are coming together as part of the Our Land Our Business campaign...

Tackling the root causes of malnutrition, the needed step to secure the right to adequate food for all

During the two day meeting, public interest civil society organizations urged Member States to take a strong leadership role in finding a way forward to tackle the root causes of...

CSO Statement in preparation for the International Conference on Nutrition

This document has been prepared as a joint effort by the public interest civil society organizations that are actively engaging the ICN2 preparatory process. While the group is...

Conflicts of interest might jeopardize proposed 'Decade on Nutrition'

Public interest Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), social movements and Indigenous Peoples repeated their demands and concerns related to the ICN 2 process in a new statement to...

Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security - SID Hyderabad, Warangal and Kodad Chapters

SID Vienna Chapter dialogue on 'food globalization, food sovereignty, food security'.

SID Vienna: global agriculture at crossroads. The discussion has to be conducted against the background of trends in the production and in the consumption of agricultural products...

Working backwards to plan for future food security in East Africa (SID-CCAFS)

by Moushumi Chaudhury* How do technical advisors to policy makers in East Africa view the region in 2020 and 2030? Will they come up with drastically different scenarios from...

Proposing a new food utopia

by Christopher Rosin and Paul Stock Since engaging with the issue of global food security in the book, Food Systems Failure (co-edited with Hugh Campbell, Routledge 2012), we have...

The business of nutrition and security (FoodFirst).

As a special surprise the participants of the foodFirst conference will be offered a small treat developed by Too Good To Waste. This enthusiastic group won NCDO’s Battle of the...

Africa and the Global Food Challenge

by Judi W. Wakhungu* Africa has one of the world’s fastest growing populations. But the growth rate of food production has not kept pace, and this has led to a food deficit. The...

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