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Legislative approaches to improve nutrition

Legal brief for parliamentarians in Latin America and the Caribbean No. 6










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    Legislating for adequate food and nutrition in schools
    Legal brief for parliamentarians in Latin America and the Caribbean No. 3
    2020
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    School feeding laws are important instruments for the realization of the right to adequate food, the right to education, and the right to health of the schoolchildren. In addition, they fulfill a social function guaranteeing access to food of the most vulnerable children in school and the school attendance. This document will cover:  * The Regional and International Framework that serves as the basis for the development of these laws in Latin America and the Caribbean * The main benefits of adopting an approach to school feeding and nutrition. * The keys to adequate drafting of a School Feeding Law. * An overview of the existing laws in the region. * The general provisions to contain the School Feeding laws. * And the necessary parliamentary actions to make this right effective.
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    Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020
    Food security and nutrition for lagging territories
    2021
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    The goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that are related to food security and nutrition will not be achieved as long as, in some territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, populations continue to live with malnutrition rates. Economic opportunities in these areas are often limited, public services are scant, and exposure to severe climate events is high. The public policies promoted in the region have had less impact in these historically lagging territories, and there is a pressing need to produce a new agenda of public instruments that address the characteristics of the communities that inhabit them. The full and sustainable development of the territories that are falling behind is not only an obligation in terms of the realization of the rights of their inhabitants; it would also allow these territories to activate their social, economic, environmental and cultural potential, to the benefit of all societies. It is hoped that the 2020 Regional Overview will help to highlight the challenges experienced by the territories with the worst indicators in terms of food and nutrition, and that it will serve to mobilize political commitment and public attention towards those areas that are most highly lagging The year 2020 will be remembered for many decades as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The indicators of the 2030 Agenda that are used in this publication do not yet show the different impacts of COVID-19. However, there are references to the possible implications of the pandemic for the future.
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    Legislative approaches to improve nutrition
    Legal brief for parliamentarians in Africa No. 6
    2019
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    In sub-Saharan Africa, close to 50 percent of children under five suffer from vitamin A deficiency, 33 percent are stunted, 7 percent are wasted and 5 percent are overweight. Anaemia affects 39 percent of women of reproductive age (15-49), while 20 percent of adult men and 40 percent of adult women in the region are overweight or obese (FAO, 2017). These are all forms of malnutrition. The co-existence of overweight, vitamin deficiency and stunting is common in most countries, and often occur in the same household. This is referred to as the double burden of malnutrition.

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