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About This Website

This website provides access to Food Security related information and resources produced by the EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme. Its overall purpose is to enhance national capacity to use food security information from different sectors and sources for more effective anti-hunger policies and programmes.

The Programme is funded by the European Commission (EC) and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It is coordinated by FAO's Agricultural Development Economics Division.

Highlights

> The ten most frequently asked questions about the recent rise in food prices (from FAO)

> A unified United Nations response to the global food price challenge (29 April 2008)

Finding out about what households eat and if they can afford it Democratic Republic of the Congo
Finding out about what people eat and if they can afford it
> Related article: Innovative Tools for Assessing Household Food Security and Dietary Diversity

Programme News

E-learning Course on Food Security Concepts and Frameworks New! E-learning Course on Food Security Concepts and Frameworks (July 2007)

> The GIEWS Workstation Helps Contribute to E-government in Europe (8 July 2008)

Newly Released Report: Joint Rapid Food Security Survey in The Occupied Palestinian Territory (May 2008)
> Download report
> Download slide presentation
> Read related press release (19 June 2008, IRIN)

> Cassava Development Strategy for Mozambique: An interview with Engineer Jaime Nicols, National Director of Trade, Mozambique (June 2008)
> Leia o artigo em Português

> More Food, More Energy : EC-FAO Programme Manager Luca Alinovi talks about Rising Food Prices on Italian TV. (26 June 2008, in Italian)

> News Archive
New Publications

> Estratégia de Desenvolvimento da Mandioca para Moçambique (2008 – 2012)

> Cassava Development Strategy for Mozambique (2008 – 2012)


> Report on the use of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale and the Household Dietary Diversity Score in two survey rounds in Manica and Sofala Provinces, Mozambique, 2006-2007
> Practical Guide: Writing Policy Papers and Policy Briefs
From the "Reporting Food Security Information" e-learning course








FAO/P. Cenini
What is Food Security?
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
- 1996 World Food Summit


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Links
> FAO Food Security Statistics
> Programme Brochure
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> Brochure du Programme
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> Capacity Building Brochure
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