News

Programme News - 2007

December 2007

First Agro-meteorological bulletins published in Cambodia (December 2007)
> News Article and Related Crop Yield Forecasting Training

> CNSA/FAO/ATELIER « Réaliser des produits d'information sur la sécurité alimentaire pour l'action » ( Haiti, Le Matin, 5 December 2007)

> Training in measuring and interpreting malnutrition, Burkina Faso, 10- 15/12 2007

> Interview with Françoise Trine, Food Security Analyst, in Burkina Faso's "Bulletin Trimestriel d'Information sur la Sécurité Alimentaire", December 2007 (pdf, p.16)

November 2007

Training in Haiti: Producing Food Security Information Products that Result in Action ( November 2007)
> Press Release

> Launch of the First Three Food Security E-learning Courses in French (November 2007)

> New Distance Learning Course: Livelihoods Assessment and Analysis ( November 2007)

> AFRICA: New improved disaster response tool - A report on the IPC (November 2007)

> Training on "Producing Food Security Information Products that Result in Action", 26-30 November 2007, Haiti

October 2007

> Report on Food Insecurity in the Lao PDR Released (October 2007)

> EC-FAO Programme Full Day Event at the Fourth International Conference on Agriculture Statistics (ICAS-4) in Beijing, China (25 October 2007)

> The Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) Workstation Network Expands (October 2007)

July 2007

> Food Security E-learning course presented at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Innovation Fair (July 2007)

June 2007

> Training Course in Burkina Faso : Producing Food Security Information Products that Result in Action (June 2007)

May 2007

New Distance Learning Course and Resources for Trainers: Nutritional Status Assessment and Analysis (May 2007)

> UN agency launches free e-course on causes and characteristics of malnutrition (May 2007)

> EC, FAO release new e-learning course: Covers nutritional status assessment and analysis (May 2007)

> Mapping Country-Specific Commodity Lists to International Standards (May 2007)

April 2007

Training Course in Cape Verde : Producing Food Security Information Products that Result in Action (April 2007) > Press Release

March 2007

> Towards a Common Strategy for the Integrated Food Security and Humanitarian Phase Classification (IPC) (March 2007)

Resources for Trainers: Food Security Information Systems and Networks (3 lessons)

> International Workshop on simple tools for measuring household access to food and dietary diversity (March 2007)

January 2007

Distance Learning Unit on Food Security Information Systems and Networks is now available (January 2007)

> The 2007 version of the Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) is now available (January 2007)