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Africa: Tackle Malnutrition Head On
allAfrica, 4 November 2014
Eight hundred and five million of the world's people are chronically hungry, according to estimates by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Read more »
FAO and WHO Plan to 'Tackle Malnutrition Head On'
On November 19-21, 2014, FAO and the World Health Organization (WHO) will co-organize the ministerial-level International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), 22 years after the first one in 1992. ICN2 should enhance commitments to address malnutrition in all its forms and to establish the bases for sustained international cooperation and policy coordination to overcome malnutrition.
Finding enough food for the children is very difficult,” said Ndeye Diagne. “This year, we’ve just been eating rice with oil around 11am and whatever is left over before we go to bed. Always my children are hungry. I’m worried about their health and nutrition.”
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4 November 2014
ICN2 – Nutrition: A Public Issue
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- FAO
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Hundreds of millions of people around the world continue to suffer from hunger and malnutrition. Governments are urged to make stronger commitments at ... see more »
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29 October 2014
FAO's Hungry Planet Series
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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In rural India the Courage Brigade helps women to tackle a range of issues affecting their lives from sanitation to violence. Family farmers in Jordan ... see more »
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Africa: FAO Urges Europe to Support Nutrition and Sustainable Farming
FAO, 29 September 2014
Director-General addresses informal meeting of European Union agriculture ministers in Milan Read more »
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Africa: African Malnutrition to Surge With Erratic Rainfall - Report
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2 September 2014
The number of malnourished people in sub-Saharan Africa could rise 40 percent by mid-century as increasingly erratic rainfall and rising temperatures cause small-scale farmers to… Read more »
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Africa: The ICN2 - So Far, Too Food Focused
IDS, 14 March 2014
The ICN2 (the second International Conference on Nutrition--the first was in 1992) is currently holding a public web based consultation on the zero draft of the political outcome… Read more »
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Two billion people worldwide suffer from hidden hunger, which is a lack of vitamins and minerals, weakens the immune system, stunts physical and intellectual growth, and can lead ... Read more »
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The UN Children's Fund has lauded Rwanda's "home-grown solutions" to child hunger and malnutrition using community-based nutrition and health insurance programmes. Read more »
