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What is food security?

Being able to reliably obtain, consume and metabolise sufficient quantities of safe and nutritious and foods, is essential to human well-being. This building block explains the meaning of the food security concept. Last update: 12 March, 2018 https://www.doi.org/10.56661/e49a6c96

Towards a European food and nutrition policy

This report by researchers at Wageningen University considers current food policies and practices in the EU, as well as the potential for change in the future.

Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities

This book, edited by Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush and Cameron McCordic, argues that programmes aimed at reducing food poverty in Africa overemphasise small-scale farmers and ignore urban food security.

Food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity: constructing and contesting knowledge

This new book, edited by Michel. P. Pimbert, Director at the Center for Agroecology, Water and Resilience in the U.K., critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity.

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Photo and video report in National Geographic on high-tech farming and innovation in the Netherlands

This journalistic photo and video reportage on the National Geographic website shows some of the most high-tech farming methods in the world, based in the Netherlands.

FAO launches overview of food security in Asia and the Pacific

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has published a report titled, ‘Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition,’ focused on Asia and the Pacific. Key messages from the report highlight that the fight against hunger is slowing, but malnutrition and stunting among children below the age of five remains high.

Tomatoes wet with dew in a garden. Photo by Janko Ferlic via Unsplash.

Organic Agriculture for 10 Billion People

In this piece, Adrian Muller takes a look at the qualities and constraints around expanded organic farming systems. His commentary is based on the paper Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture, published in Nature Communications earlier in November and summarised by the FCRN here. Adrian Muller is an FCRN member and senior researcher at FiBL (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) and ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Book: Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Biodiversity

This new handbook, edited by Danny Hunter, Luigi Guarino, Charles Spillane and Peter C. McKeown, presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the current knowledge of agricultural biodiversity.

Watch: Recordings of side events of the FAO 40th conference on four dimensions of climate change

Countries attending FAO’s 40th conference in Rome discussed climate change and food security from different perspectives linking climate-action, nutrition and migration to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Four side events related to climate change took place during this conference, which can now be watched online.