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    African Solidarity Trust Fund for Food Security 2016
    The Fund’s main goal is to strengthen food security across the continent by assisting countries and their regional organizations to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. It is a unique financing mechanism that pools resources from Africa’s strongest economies to support national and regional initiatives. The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund will be instrumental in building Africa’s Zero Hunger Generation, the first generation with the tools and the capacity to end hunger. Officially launched in 2013, w ith a total contribution of USD 40 million mainly from Equatorial Guinea and Angola, the Fund is helping people in over 36 African countries.
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    The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund 2020
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    The Sustainable Development Goals and Africa’s Agenda 2063 define the context in which FAO collaborates with its partners to advance Africa’s development priorities over the next decades. Launched in 2013, the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) provides catalytic and flexible funding to Africa-to-Africa initiatives on food and agriculture, at the regional and country level. As an FAO initiative, the ASTF already proves its success rating as an innovative African-led instrument for sustainable development. By unlocking the potential of intra-African cooperation to bring about rural transformation, the ASTF is a unique funding mechanism that pools resources from Africa to address critical gaps in the development agenda of African countries. Harnessing homegrown knowledge, technology and good practices for food and nutrition security is at the core of this initiative. With an initial USD 40 million from Equatorial Guinea and Angola and symbolic contributions from civil society organizations, the ASTF enables FAO to assist African countries in addressing agricultural issues linked to peace, food security and nutrition, employment, environment, and climate change while creating a positive impact locally.
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    The Sustainable Development Goals and Africa’s Agenda 2063 define the context in which FAO collaborates with its partners to advancing Africa’s development priorities over the next decades. Launched in 2013, the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) provides catalytic and flexible funding to Africa- to-Africa initiatives on food and agriculture, at the regional and country level. As an FAO initiative, the ASTF already proves its success rating as an innovative African-led instrument for sustainable development. By unlocking the potential of intra-African cooperation to bring about rural transformation, the ASTF is a unique funding mechanism that pools resources from Africa to address critical gaps in the development agenda of African countries. Harnessing homegrown knowledge, technology and good practices for food and nutrition security is at the core of this initiative. With an initial USD 40 million from Equatorial Guinea, Angola and symbolic contributions from civil society organizations, the ASTF enable FAO to assist African countries in addressing agricultural issues linked to peace, food security and nutrition, employment, environment, and climate change while creating a positive impact locally.

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    Malawi and FAO
    Building capacities for resilience and sustainable food and nutrition security
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    FAO has partnered with Malawi since a country representation was established in 1986. Assistance is focused on food security and agriculture-related policies and programmes, with a wide range of field programmes and an emphasis on technical advisory services and capacity building. Emergency and rehabilitation operations are also an important feature of cooperation, as is the mainstreaming of action to address HIV and AIDS, climate change and gender issues.
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    The State of Food and Agriculture 2019
    Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction
    2019
    The need to reduce food loss and waste is firmly embedded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Food loss and waste reduction is considered important for improving food security and nutrition, promoting environmental sustainability and lowering production costs. However, efforts to reduce food loss and waste will only be effective if informed by a solid understanding of the problem. This report provides new estimates of the percentage of the world’s food lost from production up to the retail level. The report also finds a vast diversity in existing estimates of losses, even for the same commodities and for the same stages in the supply chain. Clearly identifying and understanding critical loss points in specific supply chains – where considerable potential exists for reducing food losses – is crucial to deciding on appropriate measures. The report provides some guiding principles for interventions based on the objectives being pursued through food loss and waste reductions, be they in improved economic efficiency, food security and nutrition, or environmental sustainability.
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    地理标志食品的营养与健康潜力 2022
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    在很多重要文件中,传统食品、饮食和粮食体系在大众营养状况中所发挥的重要作用得到了认可。社会经济、生物多样性、自然资源可利用性及地理标志的使用都会影响营养和饮食,但关于前三项的研究比最后一项要多得多。在促进健康饮食和遏制非传染性疾病方面,地理标志食品的潜力值得探索。本书共有五个案例,研究了五种已注册的地理标志食品的营养潜力。 本书探讨了生产过程和最终产品营养成分之间的关系。事实上,这些食品的营养特性在很大程度上可以归因于它们独特的成分和生产过程,与其地理来源密切相关。对营养成分的分析既需要考虑普通的营养素,还要考虑生物活性化合物,后者通常不会出现在营养成分表中。 本书也探究了一些与个案研究对象相似但不一定认证了地理标志的食品。在个案研究后,本书第三部分简要探讨了三个专题:规范地理标志食品以保持和提高营养质量、地理标志食品在健康饮食中的作用以及食品成分测定。第四部分讨论了本书的局限性,并提出了以地理标志食品促进健康饮食的建议。很多受地理标志保护的传统食品是发酵食品,因此,附录涉及了益生菌、益生元和肠道菌群。