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ProjectEmpowering Women and Youth to Improve Household Food and Nutrition Security in Egypt - GCP/EGY/024/ITA 2020
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No results found.Economic stagnation, rising poverty, and a high unemployment rate have all contributed to a lack of household food and nutrition security in Egypt. This situation has negatively impacted the nutritional outcomes of vulnerable households, and especially children, whose health status has deteriorated in recent years. This project was designed to foster the creation of a food-secure environment that would improve access to food and increase local knowledge of nutrition in some of Upper Egypt’s poorest villages. The primary beneficiaries of the project interventions were women and children. Government staff from relevant ministries also benefited from training to increase their technical and managerial skills. The overall objectives of the project were to build capacities, to improve and increase food production and income generating activities, to raise awareness of health and nutrition, and to create a monitoring and evaluation system to track the results of project interventions. -
ProjectImproving Food Security, Nutrition and Health of Vulnerable Women and Children in The Gambia - GCP/GAM/038/EC 2023
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No results found.The Gambia is classified as a low-income-food-deficit country. Seventy-one per cent of the population live below the USD 2 per day poverty line and in 2014 the country was ranked 172 of 187 in the United Nations Human Development Index. Food insecurity and malnutrition are also high. The 2013 National Demographic Household Survey found that two-thirds of children under five, one-third of pregnant women, and 16 percent of lactating mothers had vitamin A deficiency. Despite significant advances in the reduction of undernutrition, the Gambia is still affected by micronutrient deficiencies. Fortification is the addition of one or more micronutrients to a staple food to correct, prevent or reduce micronutrient deficiencies; while biofortification is the process of enhancing the nutritional value of crops by increasing the density of vitamins and minerals in a crop through either conventional plant breeding, agronomic practices or biotechnology. Regulations for food fortification existed only for iodized salt in the country, and while there were programmesproviding some supplements, they were clearly insufficient. Against this background, the European Union-funded project aimed to assist the Government to improve the food and nutrition security of vulnerable women and children in targeted regions, by focusing on ensuring access to and the consumption of micronutrient-rich foods and industrially fortified and biofortified foods. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetTransforming political will into concrete action for rural women’s empowerment and food security 2016
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No results found.This brochure describes FAO's area of work on on facilitating the implementation of Article 14 of CEDAW for rural women's empowerment and food security under Strategic Objective 1 implemented by the Cross Cutting Theme on Gender. The brochure contains a rational for why it is important to address gender inequalities for food security and nutrition through political commitment and by incorporating the perspective of gender equality and the empowerment of rural women in sectoral and cross-sectora l policies and strategies. It then describes what FAO can do to support its Member Countries to comply with CEDAW and thus to formulate gender-equitable food security and nutrition policies.
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