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Brazilian Case Study The objective of this effort was to support Brazil in acquiring skills and experience in dealing with the political, organizational, technical, financial, and social challenges derived from the decision to include food and nutrition objectives, priorities, and goals in national development plans designed to reduce poverty and eradicate hunger as a means to... Published in 2005, by |
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Derecho a la Alimentación y Acceso a la Justicia Los Estudios Sobre el Derecho a la Alimentación son una serie de artículos y reportes relacionados con aspectos del derecho a la alimentación de interés actual en lo relacionado con la política, legislación, agricultura, desarrollo rural, biodiversidad, medio ambiente y manejo de recursos naturales. Tomando como base ejemplos concretos, esta... Published in 2009, by |
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Droit à l'alimentation et accès à la justice Les Etudes sur le Droit à l´Alimentation constituent une série d´articles et rapports concernant ce droit et sa relation avec divers domaines tel que la politique, la législation, l´agriculture, le développement rural, la biodiversité, l´environnement et la gestion des ressources naturelles. Basée sur des exemples concrets, cette publication... Published in 2009, by |
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Estudio de Caso Bolivia - La Alimentacion y Nutricion en los Procesos de Desarrollo El objetivo del estudio, es el de analizar cómo los temas de alimentación y nutrición están siendo insertos en los planes de desarrollo y lucha contra la pobreza, para garantizar el cumplimiento de las Metas de Desarrollo del Milenio y la concreción del derecho humano a la alimentación adecuada (DHAA). Published in 2005, by |
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Estudo de Caso de Angola - Sobre o direito humano à alimentação adequada Este estudo de caso baseado nas experiências vividas e relatoríos intermediários oferece uma oportunidade de reforçar as capacidades nacionais dos países envolvidos através da troca de experiências específicas entre si, visando a elaboração de estratégias pertinentes de segurança alimentar e nutricional, bem como o desenvolvimento dos planos... Published in 2005, by |
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Fifth Report on the World Nutrition Situation The 5th Report continues the tradition of reporting on trends in nutrition throughout the life cycle and of challenging the nutrition community. But instead of asking the question: how is nutrition affected by global changes? the 5th Report asks the question more proactively: how can a nutrition perspective accelerate the attainment of a comprehensive set of... Published in 2004, by |
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Fourth Report on the World Nutrition Situation Nutrition throughout the Life Cycle The Fourth Report on the World Nutrition Situation is part of a series of ACC/SCN reports initiated in the mid-1980s on the nutritional status of populations in developing countries. While earlier reports have focused on regional trends in preschool undernutrition, this report is built around the theme nutrition throughout the life cycle. This change was... Published in 2000, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 01 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2004, by |
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Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 02 The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected... Published in 2004, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 04 - Women's Role in Food Chain Activities and the Implications for Nutrition We hope that the wide-ranging information herein will further the crucially important cause of women, specifically in relation to nutrition, in several ways. First, women's central role in providing for adequate nutrition - of families, communities, and indeed nations - in being described here in detail should help to give increased prominence to the need... Published in 1989, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 06 - Women and Nutrition Women, throughout most of the world, have the major responsibility for their families' nutrition. Their own nutrition is often impaired, under the social and biological stresses they face. Developments that improve women's position in society are likely to improve nutrition overall, and are essential for this. Equally, any activities aimed at preventing... Published in 1990, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 10 - Nutrition-relevant Actions 'Nutrition' has been used in the past to describe both an input (consumption of nutrients) as well as a set of outcomes. Some of the confusion about the scope of actions to improve nutrition may be cleared up by distinguishing causality and effect. Thus, if nutrition is to be seen as an input, then the focus will be primarily on food. If it is to be viewed... Published in 1991, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 12 - Nutritional Issues in Food Aid In the past, critics of food aid have argued that it encourages dependency, both by undermining incentives to local food production as well as biasing tastes towards imported commodities. However, as we approach the mid-1990s, there is now a growing understanding that -- when managed appropriately - food aid can provide a positive boost to food security, at... Published in 1993, by |
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Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 16 - Nutrition and Poverty This report presents a collection of papers discussed at the 24th Session of the United Nations Sub-Committee on Nutrition, held in March 1997 in Kathmandu. The Symposium presenters and discussants traced the origins of child malnutrition to low birth weight, maternal deprivation and discrimination against girls and women in South Asia. Malnutrition in the... Published in 1997, by |
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Nutrition: A Foundation for Development x Published in 2002, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 25 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations This issue of the RNIS Report reviews some of the changes in emergency response over the last five years. It starts by highlighting situations where wasting was brought rapidly under control. It then looks at some of the factors that have led to less than optimal results, followed by what has been accomplished to improve response over the last five years. It... Published in 1998, by |
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Refugee Nutrition Information System No 38 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations The UN ACC/SCN issues these reports on the nutrition of refugees and displaced people with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action to improve the situation. Information is obtained from a wide range of collaborating agencies, both UN and NGO. The information available is mainly about nutrition, health, and survival in refugee and displaced... Published in 2002, by |
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Right to Food and Access to Natural Resources Until recently, human rights issues have been the domain of lawyers and human rights campaigners while resource access issues were tackled by technical interventions and political mobilization. Today human rights principles and language are being used to support resource access claims as rights-based approaches empower individuals and groups to gain or... Published in 2007, by |
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Right to Food and Bioenergy Traditional bioenergy is the dominant source of energy for about half of the world’s population and it is used mainly for cooking. This in itself makes access to bioenergy a right to food issue. Increasingly though, modern bioenergy is becoming prominent with a different kind of land-use, based on cash crops and plantations and with the use of... Published in 2007, by |
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Right to Food and Gender All over the world, unequal access to power and resources is central to discrimination against women in the community, market, state and even within their own households. Correcting this inequality is vital to realize women’s right to food. Unequal distribution of food leads to increased malnutrition, which can reduce learning potential, increase... Published in 2007, by |
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Right to Food and HIV / AIDS Enabling people to feed themselves is the primary obligation of states. When individuals are unable to do so, in cases such as when HIV/AIDS makes them physically incapable or when loss of infected parents leaves orphans struggling, the state is obligated to provide direct assistance. Published in 2007, by |
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Right to food and Indigenous Peoples Indigenous peoples are among the world’s most vulnerable groups and poorest socio-ethnic populations. They make up a significant percentage of the food insecure, often facing chronic hunger and malnutrition. Paradoxically, due to a growing dependency on fast food, obesity is also on the rise among some groups. Published in 2007, by |
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SCN News No 03 - Does Cash Cropping Affect Nutrition Food first, or agriculture for export? Does growing food protect nutrition, whereas cash-cropping cause famines? Are subsistence farmers lured into the cash economy, growing inedible crops and then finding themselves unable to feed their families? Based on recent research and new thinking, some tentative answers to such questions are now being found. Published in 1989, by |
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SCN News No 04 - Update on the Nutrition Situation This issue of SCN News gives an update on the nutrition situation - Latest data from 33 countries show diverse trends. Drought and debt crises regularly hit the headlines. Success stories have a poorer press. What is actually happening to nutrition in countries in the developing world? Is the "silent emergency" becoming "silent genocide"? Published in 1989, by |
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SCN News No 06 - Preventing Anaemia The main topics of this SCN News are: Recommendations on the deficiency control methods - especially supplementation - from recent ACC/SCN workshop; Policies to Improve Nutrition - Review of recent experience, focusing on household food security, malnutrition/infection, and caring capacity; Weaning Foods - Fermentation reduces contamination; adding... Published in 1990, by |
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SCN News No 07 - Refugees' Nutrition Crisis The main focus of this SCN News is on refugees' nutrition crisis, as serious problems are experienced in meeting the nutritional needs of refugees. Furthermore, micronutrient intake and its relation to income and prices as well as the link between breastfeeding, birth spacing and nutrition are discussed. Published in 1991, by |
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SCN News No 07 - Supplement - Some Options for Improving Nutrition in the 1990s This summary is intended to be useful for international agencies concerned with certain major nutritional problems in poor societies, and through them for governments making decisions on policies to alleviate these problems. It aims to provide a view of the state of current knowledge, based on recent experience, emanating from a meeting convened by the... Published in 1991, by |
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SCN News No 08 - Highlights of the World Nutrition Situation This issue of SCN News summarizes analytical work in the last few years for the Reports on the World Nutrition Situation and elsewhere, on the possibility of using food prices in nutrition monitoring. A second focus is on the long-term effects of improved childhood nutrition. Published in 1992, by |
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SCN News No 10 - Nutrition and Food Aid; Nutrition and Human Rights Although the idea that adequate nutrition should be regarded as a fundamental human right appears in many different contexts in international law - these are not binding in practice. Another focus of this SCN News is on Nutrition Transition: Large shifts in dietary composition are taking place in some lower income countries with important implications for... Published in 1993, by |
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SCN News No 12 - The Role of Care in Nutrition; Specific Deficiencies versus Growth Failure The three main features of this issue of SCN News are: The role of care in nutrition - The causes of poor child nutrition are undergoing a substantial reassessment with recent understanding of the importance of care. Specific deficiencies versus growth failure - Two types of responses have been identified when a child's intake of an essential nutrient is... Published in 1995, by |
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SCN News No 16 - Nutrition of the School-age Child This feature brings together a variety of articles, and reports of two new publications on the health and nutrition of school-age children. The papers range in content from the assessment of nutritional status in school-age children, to examples of school-based nutrition and feeding programmes in different countries. The nutritional concerns of school... Published in 1998, by |
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SCN News No 17 - Nutrition and HIV/AIDS “Nutrition and HIV/AIDS” is featured in this newsletter. HIV continues its rapid and devastating spread in many areas of the world most notably sub-Saharan Africa. This feature addresses issues of HIV and Infant Feeding and the possible role of micronutrient deficiency on HIV progression. Adequate nutrition and food security must be recognised as... Published in 1998, by |
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SCN News No 18 - Adequate Food: a Human Right This SCN News presents an overview of the symposium "The Substance and Politics of a Human Rights Approach to Food and Nutrition Policies and Programmes" which was held at the SCN's 26th Session in Geneva, Switzerland in April 1999. Published in 1999, by |
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SCN News No 19 - Nutrition and Healthy Ageing It is projected that in 20 years there will be twice as many older people in the world, and 70% will live in developing countries. A radical change in our perception is needed: older people are not "burdens" or "problems" needing charity, but rather carers of children, advisers, teachers, guardians of culture, and volunteers for numerous community projects.... Published in 1999, by |
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SCN News No 20 - Nutrition and Agriculture This issue of SCN News deals with nutrition and agriculture. Published in 2000, by |
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SCN News No 21 - Nutrition and the Environment This issue of SCN News deals with nutrition and the environment. With two major global conferences held in the past two months on environmental concerns, as well as increased media attention to climate change and global warming, environmental pollution and safety of the food supply, we felt it appropriate to set out a series of articles on the linkages with nutrition. Published in 2000, by |
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SCN News No 22 - Nutrition Goals and Targets This issue of SCN News is devoted to nutrition goals and targets. This topic is both timely and important because two major upcoming international meetings will review achievements towards nutrition goals set in the 90s. These are the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children in September which marks the tenth anniversary of the... Published in 2001, by |
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SCN News No 23 - Civil Society and the UN system: Debate in the Food Security Arena This issue of SCN News focuses on the interface between NGOs/civil society and the UN system concerning food security. SCN News 23 tries to take stock of what has not happened since the World Food Summit (WFS) in 1996. The postponement of the WFS: five year later meeting gives us a good window of opportunity to focus on what are still unanswered questions... Published in 2001, by |
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SCN News No 24 - Nutrition in the Context of Conflict and Crisis For this issue of SCN News the Secretariat team presents the full set of papers delivered at the 29th session in Berlin in March 2002 on the theme nutrition in conflict and crisis. The symposium touched upon the politics of humanitarian aid delivery, livelihood security, and the right to food and nutrition during emergencies. Published in 2002, by |
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SCN News No 25 - School-age Children: Their Health and Nutrition This issue of SCN News features a comprehensive review of the nutrition and health status of school-age children, an initiative of the SCN Working Group on Nutrition of the School-Age Child chaired very ably during 2000-2002 by Don Bundy of the World Bank. For many decades a neglected age group, the nutritional well being of children six to 18 years reflects... Published in 2002, by |
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SCN News No 26 – Mainstreaming Nutrition for Improved Development Outcomes The SCN’s 30th Annual session focused on efforts to mainstream nutrition and accelerate progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are a set of goals, targets and indicators to improve human development outcomes by 2015, and the nutrition community is poised to lead this process toward increased human well being. Yet the... Published in 2003, by |
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SCN News No 27 – Meeting the Challenge to Improve Complementary Feeding This issue of SCN News focuses on the critical period of complementary feeding, and its importance to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Dr Chessa Lutter, from the Pan American Health Organization, has compiled a series of articles which depicts the challenges and possibilities to improving complementary feeding for young children. Published in 2003, by |
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SCN News No 28 - Nutrition and the Millennium Development Goals On 22 March 2004, international development practitioners and nutrition technocrats and scientists met at the United Nations in New York for the SCN Symposium on Nutrition as the key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Symposium focused on nutrition’s role in accelerating improvements in poverty reduction, sustainable development and... Published in 2004, by |
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SCN News No 30 - Closing the Gap on the Right to Adequate Food: The Voluntary Guidelines The focus of this edition of SCN News is on the challenges provided by the new Voluntary Guidelines on realizing the right to adequate food, adopted by the FAO Council last November. The papers include the SCN’s experience of developing case studies on how to strengthen food and nutrition components of national poverty reduction plans. They describe the... Published in 2005, by |
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SCN News No 34 - Working Together to End Child Hunger and Undernutrition This SCN News features papers based on presentations made at the Symposium at the 34th SCN Session at FAO, Rome 26 February 2007. The Symposium focused on what we know in theory and what are best practices for creating increased system cohesiveness at all levels in order to accelerate progress towards ending child hunger and undernutrition. Published in 2007, by |
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SCN News No 35 - Universal Salt Iodization (USI) This edition of the SCN News is about one of the greatest success stories in international nutrition, that of Universal Salt Iodization. Although much still remains to be done, remarkable advances have been achieved in the fight against Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) in the last two decades. Published in 2007, by |
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SCN News No 36 - Accelerating the Reduction of Maternal and Child Undernutrition This edition of the SCN News is of special relevance for a variety of reasons, not least of which being the recommendations agreed at the 35th Session held in Hanoi in March 2008, hosted by the Government of Vietnam. The 35th Session was aimed at understanding how to accelerate the reduction of maternal and child undernutrition, drawing on the recently... Published in 2008, by |
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Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation - Volume I: Global and Regional Results This Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation comes at an important time. In the near future human well-being, to which nutrition is fundamental, could improve more rapidly throughout the world; but economic adjustments and mass migration are continuing threats. The results here show steady, if slow, progress in many countries in the last few years.... Published in 1992, by |
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Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation - Volume II: Country Trends Methods and Statistics Country-level data are intended to illustrate and promote understanding of observed trends in nutrition. They also, importantly, show the variety of situations, smoothed out in the regional data, from rapid improvement to stagnation or deterioration. As discussed in the text, the choice of countries was biased towards those with large populations. This means... Published in 1993, by |
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The Right to Adequate Food in Emergencies This study was undertaken by the FAO Legal Office within the broader context of FAO's activities to clarify the normative content of the right to adequate food. In particular, it builds on Legislative Study No. 68, which was published in 1999 and contains extracts from a wide range of international and regional instruments relating to the right to adequate... Published in 2002, by |
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The right to food and access to justice Right to Food Studies are a series of articles and reports on right to food related issues of contemporary interest in the areas of policy, legislation, agriculture, rural development, biodiversity, environment and natural resource management. This publication outlines a range of concrete examples to demonstrate that access to justice is possible and... Published in 2009, by |
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The Right to Food and Access to Natural Resources Right to Food Studies are a series of articles and reports on right to food related issues of contemporary interest in the areas of policy, legislation, agriculture, rural development, biodiversity, environment and natural resource management. The findings of this study suggest that the right to food has important implications for resource-access... Published in 2008, by |
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The right to food and indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples, like everyone else, have a right to adequate food and a fundamental right to be free from hunger. This is stipulated in Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966 and constitutes binding international law. This means states parties to the ICESCR are obliged to implement the right to... Published in 2008, by |
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The Right to Food and the Impact of Liquid Biofuels (Agrofuels) Right to Food Studies is a series of articles and reports on right to food related issues of contemporary interest in the areas of policy, legislation, agriculture, rural development, biodiversity, environment and natural resource management. This study examines the impact of biofuel production on the enjoyment of the human right to adequate food and the... Published in 2008, by |
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The Right to food Guidelines, Information papers and case studies The latest major international development concerning the right to food took place in FAO in November 2004 when its Council unanimously adopted the Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security. The negotiations took two years. They were facilitated by the FAO Secretariat.... Published in 2006, by |
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The Right to Food in the context of HIV/AIDS Right to Food Studies is a series of articles and reports on right to food related issues of contemporary interest in the areas of policy, legislation, agriculture, rural development, biodiversity, environment and natural resource management. This paper aims to clarify the relevance of the right to food in combating HIV/AIDS. Published in 2009, by |
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The SPHERE Project Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response The SPHERE Project aims to improve the quality of assistance provided to people affected by disasters, and to enhance the accountability of the humanitarian system in disaster response. The new edition of the handbook (2004) has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking into account recent developments in humanitarian practice in wat/san, food, shelter... Published in 2004, by |
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Women and the right to food Right to Food Studies is a series of articles and reports on right to food related issues of contemporary interest in the areas of policy, legislation, agriculture, rural development, biodiversity, environment and natural resource management. In the light of Millennium Development Goals No.1 – to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger – and No.3 – to... Published in 2008, by |