Documents and Tools
The state of food insecurity in the world 2005 (SOFI)
The publication reports on global and national efforts to reach the goal set by the 1996 World Food Summit: to reduce by half the number of undernourished people in the world by the year 2015.
Right to Food
One of FAO's main objectives is ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger. The World Food Summit in November 1996 reaffirmed the right of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, and gave a specific mandate to the High Commissioner for Human Rights to better define the rights related to food and propose ways to implement and realize them.
The State of Food Insecurity In the World (SOFI) 2001
This annual report draws on the ongoing work carried out by FAO and its international partners in monitoring the nutritional status of populations worldwide, in analysing the vulnerability of populations and in providing real world examples of how communities can be empowered to improve their livelihoods.
Human nutrition in the developing world
This FAO document covers the most important nutritional problems of developing countries and suggests appropriate programmes and policies to address them. It provides sound science-based information on food, nutrients, the causes of malnutrition, nutritional disorders and their prevention.
Social communication in nutrition: a methodology for intervention
This is an useful FAO Guide for all those involved in the planning and implementation of activities related to nutrition education and communication.
Guidelines for participatory nutrition projects
These FAO guidelines highlight the importance of the participation of rural households in nutrition programmes. Indeed, participatory projects
render nutrition education even more effective by addressing the causes of malnutrition from the perspective of people themselves.
Undernourishment and economic growth
This FAO paper aims to convey how malnutrition is one of the main causes of the low productivity of individuals. Fighting undernourishment is not only an ethical matter – it is also necessary to break the vicious circle of poverty.
The State of the World's Children 1998: Focus on Nutrition
This 1998 edition of the UNICEF report - focussingon malnutrion illustrates that sound nutrition can change children's lives, improve their physical and mental development, protect their health and lay a firm foundation for future productivity.
Food and Nutrition Policy: Best Practices and Toolkits of the World Bank
This webpage links all the World Bank toolkits on Nutrition Programs available online. Many issues are covered: from project design and economic analysis, to communication strategies and to the measurement of performance.
2020 Global Food Outlook
This Outlook is the latest in a series of world food projections based on a model that has been developed at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) since 1992.The model has been updated and expanded periodically since then as a way of painting an ever-clearer picture of the global food situation in 2020.
The right to adequate food and to be free from hunger
An updated study from the UN High Commissioner for Human Righs which aims to examine the existing gap between the human rights commitments (made by the UN? by the international community) and the reality of today.
Nutrition Rights: The Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition
An on-line tutorial - published by the World Alliance for Nutrition and Human Rights and the University of Hawai - which aims to help users understand the meaning of economic, social and cultural rights through study of the human right to food and nutrition, as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and several other international instruments.
American Red Cross Food Programming Proposal Tools & Checklists
These tools are used internally at the American Red Cross to plan and evaluate both emergency and non-emergency food programming proposals, and to assist in data collection.
Worldwide Initiatives
World Food Summit
The World Food Summit (WFS, FAO HQ Rome 1996) was a response to widespread undernutrition and growing concern about the capacity of agriculture to meet future food needs. The thematic website contains a collection of information and documentation about the Summit and its goals.
World Declaration on Nutrition
The Final Declaration, and related documents, arising from the first International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), convened by WHO and FAO in Rome in December 1992.
The Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS)
The SPFS is an FAO initiative that began operations in late 1994. The main objective of the SPFS is to help low-income food-deficit countries to improve food security both at national and at household levelson an economically and environmentally sustainable basis and by improving people's access to food.
Trust Fund for Food Security and Food Safety
FAO Trust Fund will be an important source of demand-driven funding to supplement the present trust funds, which support key components of the Organization's Field Programme but which have recently developed a focus on emergency operations at the expense of catalytic projects addressing long-term structural needs of the poor (70 percent of whom are in the rural sector) in the basic areas of employment creation and income generation.
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA)
The FANTA project supports integrated food security and nutrition programming to improve the health and well-being of women and children. The five-year project is managed by the Academy for Educational Development and is funded by the USAID.
Vitamin A Global Initiative
The problem of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is global - iaffects more than 100 million children and is responsible for as many as one out of every four child deaths in certain countriees. In an effort to increase awareness of the problem of VAD a group of agencies and governments are working together on a global initiative led by UNICEF.
FAO Trust Fund for Food Security and Food Safety
FAO Trust Fund will be an important source of demand-driven funding to supplement the present trust funds, which support key components of the Organization's Field Programme but which have recently developed a focus on emergency operations at the expense of catalytic projects addressing long-term structural needs of the poor (70 percent of whom are in the rural sector) in the basic areas of employment creation and income generation.
Links
The Development Gateway
About 500 resources available, organized in 30 categories (data to news, events, projects, books, statistics, discussions and more), plus a member’s directory, a bulletin board, key issues, weekly highlights, an event calendar and so on. It is also possible to browse through the AIDA project database of almost 8000 food security development projects.
World Food Programme
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. In 2000, WFP fed 83 million people in 83 countries, including most of the world's refugees and internally displaced people. Could you find any link to their school feeding and nutrition programmes?
FAO: Food And Nutrition Division
The Division assesses and monitors nutritional situations and requirements and provides advice and assistance aimed at improving the nutritional status of all, particularly the poor and most vulnerable groups in developing countries. It also has primary responsibility for coordinating FAO nutrition-related activities in follow-up to international meetings and agreements.
WHO and Nutrition
The World Health Organization (WHO) has always included nutrition promotion, and the prevention and reduction of malnutrition, among its key health-promotion instruments.The WHO Nutrition web pages contain useful documents, resources and links.
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition
The United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) is the focal point for harmonizing the policies and activities in nutrition of the United Nations System. In particular, the SCN serves as a coordinating mechanism for the exchange of information and technical guidance, and acts in a dynamic manner to assist the UN in responding to nutritional problems.
Hunger in a World of Plenty: the World Bank Web site
In efforts to fight hunger, the World Bank is engaged in supporting government policies and strategies that encourage investment in people through education, health, and nutrition programmes; and fully involving local communities, and especially the poor, in designing, implementing, and monitoring projects.
Food insecurity and vulnerability information and mapping systems (FIVIMS)
FIVIMS are networks of systems that assemble, analyse and disseminate information about the problem of food insecurity and vulnerability. Information about food insecure and vulnerable people is lacking in many countries - a glaring gap that the FIVIMS initiative aims to remedy.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
IFPRI's mission is to identify and analyze policies for sustainably meeting the food needs of the developing world. Research at IFPRI concentrates on economic growth and poverty alleviation in low-income countries, improvement of the well-being of poor people, and sound management of the natural resource base that supports agriculture.
The Micronutrient Initiative (MI)
MI is an international development agency working to end micronutrient malnutrition throughout the world. Governed by a steering committee consisting of the define...(CIDA), the International Development Reseach Centre? IDRC, UNICEF, the USAID and the World Bank, MI supports nutrition programmes in developing countries to increase people's access to essential micronutrients and to enhance their health and well-being.
Future Harvest
Future Harvest builds public understanding of the importance of international agricultural research to global peace, prosperity, environmental renewal, health, and the alleviation of suffering. Future Harvest was created by 16 food and environmental research centers located around the world, known as the Future Harvest Centers.
Food Aid Management (FAM)
FAM was created in 1989 by five U.S. private voluntary organizations (PVOs) to "promote the efficient and effective use of food aid resources to help alleviate hunger and contribute to food security". The FAM membership has grown to 17 U.S. PVOs and FAM enjoys observer status with the World Food Programme and EuronAid.
