Since October 2008, the FSN Forum has hosted the following discussions:

On-going Discussions

Putting people first: Nutrition, a key to integrated programming for poverty reduction?
Discussion raised by Charlotte Dufour, Nutrition, Food security, and Livelihoods consultant, FAO, Rome. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Do Population Dynamics aggravate Food and Nutrition Insecurity?
Discussion raised by Charles Teller from the Population Reference Bureau, Washington, USA. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Closed Discussions

Responding to the challenges of Climate Change and its linkages to Food Security and Nutrition. Discussion raised on the occasion of World Food Day 2008 by Stéphane Jost, Climate Change and Bioenergy Division, FAO, Rome. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Food Security and the Human Right to Food - Going on parallel tracks or converging? Discussion raised by Dubravka Bojić Bultrini, legal consultant, Right to Food Unit, FAO, Rome. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Linking Food Aid and Pro-Poor Growth. The topic was raised by Mhgoub Emad Ahmed, Agricultural Economic & Policy Research Center of the Agricultural Research Corporation, Sudan. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Note: All the French and Spanish versions of the summaries (when available) can be found on the FSN Forum home page:
http://km.fao.org/fsn/resources/discussion-proceedingssummaries/en/

78 Resources have been shared in the FSN Forum since 16th October 2008 and are available at: http://km.fao.org/fsn/resources/resources-by-topic/en/?no_cache=1

Food Security - Policies and Strategies

Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: health check, budget review, Doha Round

Human rights-based approaches and European Union development aid policies

More Aid for African Agriculture - Policy implications for small-scale farmers

Creating value for all: strategies for doing business with the poor


Climate Change

Demographics and climate change: future trends and their policy implications for migration

Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition    

Climate Change webpage on the FAO website


Food Security and Poverty

Extreme poverty in Bangladesh: protecting and promoting rural livelihoods

A global perspective on poverty in India

A critical look at the role of micro finance banks in poverty reduction in Tanzania: A case of Akiba commercial Bank Limited

Best Practices in Poverty Reduction - An Analytical Framework

World Bank poverty figures: what do they mean?

Developing a 'vertical' dimension to chronic poverty research: some lessons from global value chain analysis

Linking international agricultural research knowledge with action for sustainable poverty alleviation: what works?


Population Dynamics and Food Security

2002, Population and Poverty: New Views on an Old Controversy

2004, Population dynamics and Sustainability, Chapter 5, Agenda 21

Demographic Change and its Influence on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

2004, State of the world population

2005, Population aging and the macroeconomy: explorations in the use of immigration as an instrument of control  

World Population Policies 2005 - Summary

2006, The relationship between population dynamics and income growth in the Philippines

2006, Changes in population structure and household consumption inequality in Jakarta-West Java and Central Java

World Population Policies 2007

2007, World population highlights: key findings From PRB's 2007 world population data sheet

Book Review: 2007, Population ageing in East and South-East Asia: current situation and emerging challenges

2008, Africa and its demographic challenges: an uncertain future

UNFPA - Population Issues

Which migration, what development? Critical perspectives on European African relations

The impact of demographic dynamics on economic development, poverty and inequality in Mozambique

Population ageing in developing regions: focusing on the oldest old

Rural population ageing in developing countries: issues for consideration by FAO 

Rural population ageing and sustainable rural development: Report on a brainstorming workshop


Organic Agriculture and Food Security

Organic Agriculture and Food Security

Organic Agriculture and Food Utilization

Organic Agriculture and Environmental Stability of the Food Supply

Organic Agriculture and Access to Food

Organic Agriculture and Food Availability

Best Practices for Organic Policy - What developing country Governments can do to promote the organic agriculture sector (2008)

Organic Agriculture and Food Security in Africa (2008)

Adoption of organic rice for sustainable development in Bangladesh


Biodiversity

The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. An interim report

Biochar and Terra Preta


Capacity building

Distance learning courses of the EC/FAO Food Security “Information for Action” Programme

ICDS and Right to Food

Training material on evaluation of humanitarian action

Training Module for Analysing Agricultural Prices (2008)

Improving Household Food Security and Nutrition through Community Empowerment in the Luapula Valley, Zambia


Food Security and Nutrition

Measuring the effectiveness of supplementary feeding programmes in emergencies

Empowering Communities & Governments to make nutrition changes happen - Lessons Learnt from Afghanistan

Revisiting the UNICEF malnutrition framework to foster agriculture and health


Soaring Food Prices and Economic Crisis

The Global Food Price Crisis: Lessons and Ideas for Relief Planners and Managers

The global financial crisis and developing countries - Which countries are at risk and what can be done?

Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

Beyond Relief: Food Security in Protracted Crisis

A Back of the Envelope Estimation of the Effect of Soaring Food Prices on World Hunger

The Impact of Rising Food Prices on the Poor

Asia Pacific Food Situation Update, September 2008

Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries


Agriculture and Rural Development

Conserving land, protecting water

The Economic Effects of Land Reform in Tajikistan

Comprehensive Assessment of the Agriculture Sector in Liberia

Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) website

Bangladesh: land-related constraints

Forest environmental income and the rural poor