Food security

A balanced diet is important for reducing hunger and malnutrition. Researchers thus advocate that small farmers in low- and middle-income countries should try to produce as many different foods as possible for their own…

Food security

The 52nd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), the most inclusive United Nations Body, reached a successful conclusion in Rome/Italy in late October. This conclusion represents a diplomatic…

Food security

To mark World Food Day on the 16th October and this year’s 20th anniversary of the UN Guidelines on the Right to Adequate Food, the AG Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (AG L&E) of the “Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung” (FU&E)…

Nutrition

In the Sahel region, the cultivation of moringa and baobab trees can help improve the nutritional status of the population while reversing desertification. The Burkinabé Institute for Health Sciences Research (IRSS) is…

Food security

If the lack of progress in combating hunger continues, 64 countries will not accomplish reaching a low level of hunger by 2030. This is the result the Global Hunger Index, presented by Welthungerhilfe to mark World Food…

Food security

The world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030, this report warns. It shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment…

Food security

FAO and CIMMYT are teaming up to boost traditional nutrient-rich, climate-resilient crops and healthy soils to enhance diet quality for today and tomorrow.

Food security

This edition of the Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH focuses on the causes, impacts and responses to the food, climate and ecological crises during 2023.

Food security

Prior to the 2024 Policies against Hunger Conference (PaH), having taken place on the 4th–5th June, members and affiliates of Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, Germany’s NGO forum on environment and development, had…

Food security

Participants on the Policies against Hunger Conference agreed on peace as a precondition to eradicate hunger. They stressed the need to transform food systems and to develop more inclusive approaches, and they discussed…