Category: Food Security
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Benefits and Costs of the Food and Nutrition Targets for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The Copenhagen Consensus Center, one of the world’s leading development think tanks, published the Food Security and Nutrition Perspective Paper in November 2014 about the benefits and costs of food and nutrition targets in the post-2015 development agenda. The paper addresses the evolution of nutrition goals from the MDGs to the SDGs and provides a brief analysis anticipated cost-benefits…
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New Strategies for Old Goals: WHO’s Push to Meet the 2025 Global Nutrition Targets
The Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), took place November 2014 in Rome, Italy. During the conference, WHO released various resources to increase attention on the 2025 global nutrition targets. These resources primarily consist of a serious of 6…
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The State Of Food And Agriculture 2014: Innovation in family farming
FAO’s 2014 report on The State Of Food and Agriculture (SOFA 2014) focuses on the vital role of family farms for food security, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability. The report states more than 500 million family farms manage the majority of the world’s agricultural land and produce most of the world’s food. That group constitutes 90% of…
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The Need to Double Food Output by 2050: GAP Report Launch
The 2014 World Food Prize, held between October 15 and 17th, would have been incomplete without the launch of yet another GAP Report from the Global Harvest Initiative (GHI). This year marked their fourth, which gives a comprehensive scope of what the current status of food production is and will need to be in order…