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Book (stand-alone)Technical reportReport of the Second External Review of the Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program (SSA-CP) 2011
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Book (stand-alone)Technical reportReport of the First External Review of the Water and Food Challenge Program - CGIAR 2008
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No results found.The CPWF is an international, multi dimensional, research for development initiative. Its overarching goal is to contribute to the efforts by the global community to increase food production to achieve internationally adopted food security and poverty eradication targets by 2015, while simultaneously ensuring that the global diversions to agriculture are maintained at the level of the year 2000. It emphasizes south south and north south cooperation, partnership and knowledge exchange. Led by a consortium of 18 institutions, the CPWF is working with a broad range of over 200 institutions in research and development, bringing together natural and social scientists, development specialists and river basin communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Over 60 percent of the research funding is disbursed through a competitive grant scheme. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical reportReport of the First External Review of the HarvestPlusChallenge Program - CGIAR 2008
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No results found.The goal of HarvestPlus CP is to reduce micronutrient malnutrition among poor populations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, by breeding and disseminating nutrient‐dense staple food crops thereby improving food and nutrition security in vulnerable populations. HarvestPlus focuses on iron, zinc, and vitamin A; these nutrients are widely recognized by the UN system, multi‐ and bilateral development agencies as the key micronutrients given the high prevalence of deficiency and their impa ct on population health and well being. The causal web for this form of malnutrition includes inadequate access to food of sufficient quality or quantity, limited access to health and inappropriate caring practices; affecting close to 2 billion people, especially women of reproductive age and preschool children. The impact of these deficiencies in terms of the burden of death and disability is staggering; with direct impact on human capital formation, restricting economic growth, human and social development.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureThe 10 elements of agroecology
Guiding the transition to sustainable food and agricultural systems
2018Today’s food and agricultural systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of food to global markets. However, high-external input, resource-intensive agricultural systems have caused massive deforestation, water scarcities, biodiversity loss, soil depletion and high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Despite significant progress in recent times, hunger and extreme poverty persist as critical global challenges. Even where poverty has been reduced, pervasive inequalities remain, hindering poverty eradication. Integral to FAO’s Common Vision for Sustainable Food and Agriculture, agroecology is a key part of the global response to this climate of instability, offering a unique approach to meeting significant increases in our food needs of the future while ensuring no one is left behind. Agroecology is an integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and management of food and agricultural systems. It seeks to optimize the interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment while taking into consideration the social aspects that need to be addressed for a sustainable and fair food system. Agroecology is not a new invention. It can be identified in scientific literature since the 1920s, and has found expression in family farmers’ practices, in grassroots social movements for sustainability and the public policies of various countries around the world. More recently, agroecology has entered the discourse of international and UN institutions. -
Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) 2014
Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition
2014The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. A stock-taking of where we stand on reducing hunger and malnutrition shows that progress in hunger reduction at the global level and in many countries has continued but that substantial additional effort is needed in others. The 2014 report also presents further insights into the suite of food security indicators introduced in 2013 and analyses in greater depth the dimensions of food security – availability, access, stability and utilization. By measuring food security across these dimensions, the suite of indicators can provide a detailed picture of the food security and nutrition challenges in a country, thus assisting in the design of targeted food security and nutrition interventions. Sustained political commitment at the highest level is a prerequisite for hunger eradication. It entails placing food security and nutrition at the top of the political agenda and creating an enabling environment for improving food security and nutrition. This year’s report examines the diverse experiences of seven countries, with a specific focus on the enabling environment for food security and nutrition that reflects commitment and capacities across four dimensions: policies, programmes and legal frameworks; mobilization of human and financial resources; coordination mechanisms and partnerships; and evidence-based decision-making. -
BookletCorporate general interestRecent developments in biotechnologies relevant to the characterization, sustainable use and conservation of genetic resources for food and agriculture 2022
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No results found.Over the past 15 years, there have been rapid and ever-increasing advances in science and technology, institutional and human capacities and infrastructure in the field of gene sequencing and in the associated bioinformatics (the application of information technology and computer science to the field of molecular biology) and high-performance computing. This publication provides an update on recent developments in biotechnologies relevant to the characterization, sustainable use and conservation of genetic resources for food and agriculture.