The overall purpose of this paper is to address food security and poverty reduction in the face of climate change and energy security. It attempts to bring to the fore food security threats associated with climate change in the food production and supply environments, as well as the broader livelihood and ecological changes that will occur as a consequence. Recognizing the different geographical regions around the Pacific and how climate change would impact on their food security situations open more...
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Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV, produced by WFP and FANTA in collaboration with Technical Assistance to NGOs (TANGO) International, is a new guide to improve the design and implementation of food security programmes that respond to HIV-related challenges as well as HIV programs that utilise food and food-related activities to achieve HIV-related outcomes.
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Addressing food security and nutrition in all settings is vital to achieving the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010, to which all Member States of the United Nations have committed themselves.This policy brief highlights actions
that governments, civil society and international partners can take to promote food security and nutrition in the context of the AIDS epidemic.
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This is an Editorial from Nature which quotes a major study of biotechnology in Africa which concluded: 'that Africa's nations cannot afford to do without new technologies in agriculture — but that all new technologies would need appropriate safeguards to protect human health and the environment. This seemingly obvious statement was, in fact, a rare example of successful collaboration between multinationals and environmentalists.' The editorial itself concludes 'the African Union should have t more...
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This report follows the May 2008 request of the Human Rights Council for the Special Rapporteur to invite comments from States and other relevant actors on the impact of the global food crisis on the protection of the right to food and the required remedies from a human rights perspective. The report calls on the Human Rights Council to, among other actions: contribute to the discussion of a global partnership for agriculture and food, ensuring that it includes attention to human rights dimensio more...
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This report, published by the Capacity-building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development, discusses the many factors related to food security and the impact of organic agriculture on food security in Africa. The report analyzes fifteen cases from East Africa, which suggest that organic farming can increase productivity and enable small scale farmers to be more self-sufficien
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This policy brief, by the UN University’s International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), highlights that the provision of clean water and improved sanitation are the interventions most likely to have a significant impact on global poverty. The brief draws attention to the connection between safe water and human well-being
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