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Zooming in on nutrition-sensitive landscapes
At Nutrition-sensitive landscapes, a CIFOR and ICRAF organized side-event at the Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition, Bioversity International's researcher Céline Termote spoke about putting people at the centre of the landscapes approach: "Food is an expression of their culture, we must not forget that," she said. Photo: CIFOR
International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition
The International Conference on Forests, Food Security and Nutrition will take place at FAO in Rome, Italy from 13-15 May, 2013. The Conference aims to increase understanding of the crucial role that forests, trees and agroforestry systems can play in improving the food security and nutrition of rural people, especially in developing countries.
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Millenium Development Goal 1 Hunger Target - A review of global progress
The hunger component of MDG1 aims to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half by 2015. Photo: S. Mann/Bioversity
A new paper views global progress toward the Millennium Development Goal 1 Hunger Target. The paper which examines evidence from over 40 community-based programs as well as the most pertinent national and international efforts was co-authored by Jessica Fanzo, a Senior Scientist for Nutrition at Bioversity, and Paul Pronyk, Earth Institute, Colombia University.
Results show that although much effort has been dedicated to achieving this goal, there is still a lot of work to be done. Programs still, far too often, address hunger, rather than the quality of diets within communities and improving long term nutritional outcomes.
The authors suggests that accelerating progress toward the MDG1 is less about the development of innovations and technologies and more about putting what is already known in to practice. [Read more]
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