Food & Nutrition

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...

The silent ethnicide. The demise of the rural Italian economy

by Michela Zucca Over the last two decades, Italy has gradually shifted from being one of the top agricultural producers and exporter country of high quality refined/processed...

SID Netherlands New Publication: 'Agriculture, Food Security and Inclusive Growth'

In 2011, SID Netherlands, together with the International Institute of Social Studies and supported by NCDO, organised the lecture series Agriculture, Food Security and Inclusive...

FoodFirst Conference on 'Breaking the hunger cycle'.

After less than one year from the food crisis in the Horn of Africa, a new african food crisis is emerging, in the Sahel region. How can we act to avoid further damages and...

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