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DocumentExecutive Summary of the International Scientific Symposium on Food and Nutrition Security Information, 17 – 19 January 2012
From valid measurement to effective decision making
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No results found.The 2012 Symposium brought together nearly 400 practitioners working on issued related to food and nutrition security information. The objectives of the symposium were to: 1) report on progress made in the five methods originally reviewed in the 2002 symposium, with a special focus on FAO’s undernourishment estimates, the use of household income and expenditure data, and questionnaires for measuring people’s experience of food security and hunger. 2) report on innovations in new metrics, particularly in regard to changes in the global and country contexts cited above. 3) move the discourse past information generation per se towards taking a closer look at how to increase the use of that information in decision making for food and nutrition security. -
Book (stand-alone)Proceedings from the International Scientific Symposium on Food and Nutrition Security information: from Valid Measurement to Effective Decision Making 2013
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No results found.In January 2012 FAO organized an International Symposium to examine emerging trends in measuring Food and Nutrition Security Information and linking it more closely to decision-making. These proceedings contain the findings from the symposium as well as a synthesis of key discussions. -
Book (stand-alone)Final Report for the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition 2014
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No results found.FAO held, with the support of France, the Swiss Development Cooperation and the Foreign Office of Agriculture of Switzerland, the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition at its headquarters in Rome on 18 and 19 September 2014 and a side-event on the Symposium during COAG on 30 September 2014. The Symposium was of a scientific and technical nature with a High Level Segment in the afternoon of the second day. Overall the Symposium can be considered a very successful event, during which FAO took the responsibility of providing a neutral forum for discussion. This report provides an overview of the Symposium and the COAG side-event.Read the reports and other materials from other Meetings on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition :
- Indigenous Food Systems, Agroecology and the Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure. A Meeting between Indigenous Peoples and FAO. 2-3 February 2015 - FAO, Rome Headquarters
- Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition Proceedings of the FAO Intern ational Symposium. 18-19 September 2014, Rome, Italy
- Abstracts for the Final Report for the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. Scientific Knowledge Session, 18 September 2014
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