Only ten years now remain before the
2015 deadline by which world
leaders have pledged to reduce
hunger and extreme poverty by half and to
make substantial gains in education,
health, social equity, environmental
sustainability and international solidarity.
Without stronger commitment and more
rapid progress, most of those goals will not
be met.
If each of the developing regions
continues to reduce hunger at the current
pace, only Latin America and the Caribbean
will reach the Mille more...

People in the Caribbean have drastically altered their traditional diets in the last few decades
and have also adopted a more sedentary lifestyle. These observations are central to the
changing disease and health profile in the region.
That food consumption information is vital to planning the future of Caribbean health is no
longer in doubt. What is less clear is the strategy needed to transfer the findings from such
nutrition surveys into programs and policy action. While many manuals are more...

Worldwide, per capita availability of food is projected to increase around 7 percent between 1993 and 2020, from about 2,700 calories per person per day in 1993 to about 2,900 calories.3 Increases in average per capita food availability are expected in all major regions. China and East Asia are projected to experience the largest increase, and West Asia and North Africa the smallest. The projected average availability of about 2,300 calories per person per day in Sub-Saharan Africa is just barel more...

Au 1er Janvier 2008, les Accords de partenariat économique (APE), en cours
de négociation entre l’Union européenne (UE) et 77 pays d’Afrique, des
Caraïbes et du Pacifique (ACP), sont censés remplacer l’Accord de Cotonou, signé
au Bénin le 23 juin 2000. L’échéance est donc proche et la dérogation octroyée
par les membres de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) pour le volet
commercial de cet accord prend fin ce 31 Décembre, date à laquelle les signataires
devaien more...

Food and nutrition security for the country’s poor households is stable. Staple cereals are harvested between October and December in most of the country; current harvests are within normal ranges, and the maize harvests are slightly above average and above last year’s harvest. Food supply for subsistence producers is thus ensured through February or April, depending on local harvest times, since their reserves last approximately four months. Households’ dependency on agricultural producti more...

Since 2000, the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Systems
Network (FEWS NET) activity has adopted a livelihoods framework
for food security analysis. FEWS NET implements the livelihoods
approach flexibly, according to national strategies, partners, needs,
and resources. FEWS NET has strategically modified its capacity
building strategies and information products to strengthen and deliver
a livelihoods context for interpretation of food security and
vulnerability information.
The liveliho more...

Bien que la population de l'Inde ait augmenté de 424 millions d'habitants entre 1963 et 1993, les graves crises alimentaires des premières années 1960 ont fait place à des surplus de nourriture dans les années 1990. Et au cours de ces années l'Inde a développé un système de recherche agronomique parmi les plus étendus dans le monde. Près des trois quarts de cet accroissement de la productivité sont à mettre au compte de la recherche et de la vulgarisation agricole. Une grande partie more...

WFP Food Security and Market Monitoring Report provides up-to-date information on access and availability of
basic food commodities in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). This report examines food security and
markets analysis determinants in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), addressing: (i) the market in terms of
price fluctuations and differentials (ii) economic access to food by the poorest households and food availability in
rural and urban areas; (iii) areas and population more...

Food is one of the most basic needs for human survival. Access to it is a basic human right. Moreover, the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goal to cut hunger requires a sound understanding of the related food security issues. For these reasons, accurate measurement of the food security status of populations—or their ability to gain access to sufficient high-quality food to enable them to live an active, healthy life—is imperative to all international development efforts. It is necessar more...

This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual report on household food security in the United States. According to USDA, some 12.5 million households, or roughly 11 percent of all households, experienced "household food insecurity" at some point in 2006 and some 35 million people lived in households with some form of food insecurity.[1] Most of these households were low income. The report showed little change in food security levels in the U.S. over the last decade.

more...