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European Commission's Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security
Newsletter
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Editorial
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Newsletter September 2021
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The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 shows that the world remains off-track to meet the SDG 2 targets. Notwithstanding international support, the pandemic has posed additional threats to global food security and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries.
This is in this worrisome context that the United Nations Food Systems Summit will take place the 23rd September 2021.
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Reports proposing game-changing solutions for the transformation towards sustainable food systems continue to flourish. Among them, we highlight five recent ones:
- Stock-take report on agroecology in IFAD operations: An integrated approach to sustainable food systems: this internal review shows the comparative advantage of an integrated agroecological approach in addressing food systems failures.
- How is organic farming performing agronomically and economically in sub-Saharan Africa? This scientific publication shows that the full benefits of organic farming cannot materialize without the adoption of agroecological practices by farmers, market access, and policy reforms by governments.
- A Multi-Billion-Dollar Opportunity: Repurposing agricultural support to transform food systems: this FAO, UNDP and UNEP study concludes that repurposing agricultural support can be an effective game-changer towards sustainable food systems. For low-income countries, the effectiveness of extensive input subsidy raises growing concerns.
- Building Blue Food Futures for People and the Planet: the report outlines the contribution of blue foods in the transformation towards sustainable food systems and lists five actions that can help realize the transformation.
- Food systems - seven priorities to end hunger and protect the planet: this publication focuses on the role of sciences and technology to improve nutrition and safeguard the environment.
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Latest Resources
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09/09/2021
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The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021
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As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is abundantly clear that this is a crisis of monumental proportions, with catastrophic effects on people’s lives and livelihoods and on efforts to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Historically, pandemics have served as catalysts for political, economic and social change, and that still holds true today.
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03/09/2021
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Action plan on nutrition: Sixth progress report April 2020 – March 2021
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This sixth progress report marks a critical juncture between two European Union programming cycles: 2014-2020 and 2021-2027. The report provides an update on achievements with respect to the two ambitious commitments on nutrition: to support partner countries reduce the number of stunted children under the age of five by at least 7 million by 2025; and to allocate EUR 3.5 billion to nutrition between 2014 and 2020.
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06/09/2021
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The impact of COVID-19 on diet quality, food security and nutrition in low and middle income countries: A systematic review of the evidence
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The current global pandemic of Coronavirus (COVID-19), and measures adopted to reduce its spread, threaten the nutritional status of populations in Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Documenting how the COVID-19 affects diets, nutrition and food security can help generating evidence-informed recommendations for mitigating interventions and policies.
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09/09/2021
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Stock-take report on agroecology in IFAD operations: An integrated approach to sustainable food systems
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This report presents the results of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) stock-take on agroecology. The study is based on a systematic desk review of all 207 IFAD-supported projects completing in 2018-2023 across the five IFAD regions.
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16/09/2021
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A Multi-Billion-Dollar Opportunity: Repurposing agricultural support to transform food systems
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Agricultural support is not providing desirable results for sustainability and human health, but repurposing it can be a game changer. It offers governments an opportunity to optimize the use of scarce public resources to transform food systems in ways that make them not only more efficient, but also more supportive of the SDGs.
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20/09/2021
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Building Blue Food Futures for People and the Planet - The Report of the Blue Food Assessment
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Blue foods include thousands of species of aquatic plants and animals, many of them rich in protein and micronutrients. This vast diversity offers enormous potential. Sustainably harvested blue foods can help achieve the SDGs by alleviating hunger and malnutrition; improving health; reducing pressure on oceans, water, land and climate; and maintaining or creating decent livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
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21/09/2021
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How is organic farming performing agronomically and economically in sub-Saharan Africa?
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This study analyses the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and more specifically:
a) how different organic interventions enable farmers to practice organic agriculture;
b) how organic agriculture comparatively performs in terms of productivity and profitability.
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Latest News and Events
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13/09/2021
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Team Europe: €34 billion disbursed so far to tackle COVID-19 in partner countries
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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, the EU, EU Member States and European financial institutions, as Team Europe, have disbursed €34 billion in support to partner countries in addressing the pandemic and its consequences, delivering on its promises with concrete results.
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08/09/2021
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Agroecology can address food systems failures - new IFAD report
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In its first comprehensive assessment of agroecology, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced today that 60 percent of its projects use practices from this holistic approach to sustainable agricultural production.
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14/09/2021
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UN report calls for repurposing of USD 470 billion of agricultural support that distorts prices and steer us away from environment and social goals
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Global support to producers in the agricultural sector amounts to USD 540 billion per year, making up 15 per cent of total agricultural production value.
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15/09/2021
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UNFSS solution cluster puts aquatic foods at the center of food systems transformation
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Aquatic foods are the cornerstone of diets, livelihoods and cultures of many poor and vulnerable communities around the world. Despite their unique value and benefits, they are managed as a natural resource, and not as a critical component of strategies to deliver healthy, sustainable and equitable food systems.
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13/09/2021
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Climate Change Could Force 216 Million People to Migrate Within Their Own Countries by 2050
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The World Bank’s updated Groundswell report released today finds that climate change, an increasingly potent driver of migration, could force 216 million people across six world regions to move within their countries by 2050.
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02/09/2021
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Food systems: seven priorities to end hunger and protect the planet
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The world’s food system is in disarray. One in ten people is undernourished. One in four is overweight. More than one-third of the world’s population cannot afford a healthy diet. Food supplies are disrupted by heatwaves, floods, droughts and wars.
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Forthcoming Events
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23/09/2021
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UN Food Systems Summit – 23 September 2021
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Over the past 18 months, the Summit has brought together all UN Member States and constituencies around the world – including thousands of youth, food producers, Indigenous Peoples, civil society, researchers, private sector, and the UN system – to bring about tangible, positive changes to the world’s food systems.
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