Since March 2009, the FSN Forum has hosted the following discussions:

On-going Discussions

Identifying and addressing Food Insecurity among the Urban Poor
Discussion raised by Siddharth Agarwal from the Urban Health Resource Center. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Discussion proceedings (until 18 May 2009)

Impact of cassava development on Food Security and Nutrition of the rural poor
Discussion raised by Michael Carbon, from IFAD. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

Topic introduction
Discussion proceedings (until 18 May 2009)

Food Security and Nutrition Security – What is the problem and what is the difference
Discussion raised by Urban Jonsson, from the international consultancy group The Owls. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

Topic introduction
Discussion proceedings (until 18 May 2009)


Closed Discussions

Sharing innovative and flexible capacity building practices for development
Discussion raised by Umesh Chandra Pandey, from the School of Good Governance & Policy Analysis in India. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Looking at things differently while addressing Food Security and Nutrition issues
Discussion raised by Andrew MacMillan, former director of FAO’s Field Operations Division. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Discussion summary

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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Draft of the National Agricultural and Food Policy for Uzbekistan
Discussion raised by Bakhodur Eshonov, from UNDP in Uzbekistan. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Discussion summary

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

93 Resources have been shared in the FSN Forum since the 2nd March 2009 and are available at: http://km.fao.org/fsn/resources/resources-by-topic/en/?no_cache=1

Food Security - Policies and Strategies

Food And Nutrition Security In The United States-Affiliated Pacific Islands

Countries with Rapid Population Growth and Resource Constraints: Issues of Food, Agriculture, and Development

The Challenges of China’s Encounter with Factory Farming

Proposal for an International Convention on Eradication of Hunger and Severe Malnutrition and a Simultaneous Campaign to Raise Commitment Levels

THE FOOD CRISIS AND LATIN AMERICA: Framing a New Policy Approach

Population and Poverty: the Policy Issues

Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment/Analysis

Feeding Hunger & Insecurity: Field Analysis of Volatile Global Commodity Food Prices, Food Security, & Childhood Malnutrition

Taking into account food and nutrition dimension in the measurement and assessment of human development

Support Models for CSOs at Country Level - Tanzania Country Report

Climate Change and Natural Resources

Transitioning to Climate Resilient Development - Perspectives from Communities in Peru

State of the World’s Forests 2009
Voices from Africa: African Farmers and Environmentalists Speak Out Against a New Green Revolution in Africa

Managing Population–Environment Systems: Problems of Institutional Design

Points of view: Saving African soils - grounds for hope?

Growing More Food – Using Less Water

Mapping of integrity and accountability in water activities and relevant capacities in the SADC region

Food Security and Poverty

Department for International Development (DFID) Research Strategy 2008-2013

Beyond Basic Needs: Programming for marginalised and vulnerable groups – The Australian Partnerships with African Communities (APAC) Programme

Projects for the poor and excluded: lessons from Community Development Programme in Nepal

The moving out of poverty study: an overview

Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger: Towards a Coherent Policy Agenda

Addressing Regional Inequality Issues in Bangladesh Public Expenditure

A Development Charter for the G-20

Progress in reducing hunger after the World Food Summit

Eliminating world poverty: building our common future

Capacity building

Distance education for development

Farmer Field Schools on land and water management in Africa – Workshop Proceedings

FAO's "Virtual Water"

Educating Consumers to Cope with High Food Prices

Sphere Project Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response

Give us a Chance

Food Aid 

Aid Effectiveness: A Progress Report on Implementing the Paris Declaration

Foreign aid, accountability and service delivery in Africa

Keeping a low profile: what determines the allocation of aid by Non-Governmental Organizations?

Global Vertical Programmes: a tale of too many funds

Food Security and Nutrition

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 12 Nutrition and Politics

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 11 Nutrition and Communities

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 9 Nutrition and Crises

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 8 Nutrition and Poverty

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 7 Nutrition and Gender

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 6 Nutrition and Agriculture

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 5 Nutrition and The Environment

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 4 Nutrition and Health

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 2 Nutrition and Education

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 1 Making the Case

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development - Brief 3 Nutrition and Population

Food Security and The Right To Food

The right to food 1998-2008: a casualty of the war on terror

Parallel Report: The Right to Adequate Food in the Philippines

El Derecho a la Alimentación y la lucha contra el hambre en Nicaragua: One Year of the Zero Hunger Program

The Right to Adequate Food of Rural and Indigenous Women in Guatemala

Implementing the human right to food in Brazil

Official responses to the world food crisis in light of the human right to food

The human right to food and contemporary globalization

Report of an investigative mission to Zambia

Food Security  and Crisis

Swimming Against The Tide: How Developing Countries Are Coping With The Global Crisis

The Growing Food Crisis: Demographic Perspectives and Conditioners

The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low-Income Countries

Implementing Physical and Virtual Food Reserves to Protect the Poor and Prevent Market Failure

Trade and Pro-poor Growth

Rebuilding global trade: proposals for a fairer, more sustainable future

Growth without development: Looking beyond inequality

More Growth or Fewer Collapses? A New Look at Long Run Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Food Security and Gender

OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index