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

On-going Discussions

Revising the Food Security Component of the Sphere Handbook
Discussion raised by Devrig Velly, from Action Against Hunger, USA. Please click below to access the discussion documents:

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Discussion proceedings (until 24th August 2009)

Closed Discussions

Developing and Implementing Food Safety Mechanisms
Discussion raised by Harun K.M. Yusuf and Lalita Bhattacharjee  from FAO, Bangladesh.
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Food Security and Capabilities Approach: from theory to practice
Discussion raised by Thais Basinello, from Brazil
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Food Security in arid and semi-arid lands: the challenges of sustainable use of scarce resources
Discussion raised by Hezekiah G. Muriuki, from Kenya
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Gender and cultural dimensions of vulnerability to Food Security in HIV/AIDS context
Discussion raised by Mariame Maiga, from Cote d’Ivoire
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Identifying and addressing Food Insecurity among the Urban Poor
Discussion raised by Siddharth Agarwal, from the Urban Health Resource Center, India
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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, Sweden
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Impact of cassava development on Food Security and Nutrition of the rural poor
Discussion raised by Michael Carbon, from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Italy
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Sharing innovative and flexible capacity building practices for development
Discussion raised by Umesh Chandra Pandey, from the School of Good Governance and Policy Analysis, India
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Note: All the summaries can be found on the FSN Forum page:
http://km.fao.org/fsn/resources/discussion-proceedingssummaries/en/

30 Resources have been shared in the FSN Forum since the 18th May 2009 and are available at: http://km.fao.org/fsn/resources/contribute-resources/en/?no_cache=1

Soaring Food Prices

How Much Did Developing Country Domestic Staple Food Prices Increase During the World Food Crisis? How Much Have They Declined?

Did Speculation Affect World Rice Prices?

Food Prices and Inflation in Developing Asia: Is Poverty Reduction Coming to an End?

Policy Brief: Rural Policy Recommendations Issued from Risk Management Policy Review and Soaring Food Price Diagnosis in Madagascar

Food Security and the Capability Approach

Conceptualizing two Development Approaches & Applicability in the Context of Reality

The ‘Missing Dimensions’ of Poverty Data: A Proposal for Internationally-Comparable Indicators

Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy

Capability and Health Functioning in Ehtiopian Households

Food Security - Policies and Strategies

From Land Grab to Win-Win

Policy Brief: Risk Management as a Pillar in Agriculture and Food Security Policies

Policy Brief: A Review of Risk Management Tools and Policies in Niger’s Rural Sector

Policy Brief: Food Security and Risk Management by Local Communities

Policy Brief: Towards a Policy that Pairs Microcredit and Micro-Insurance Tools

Food for all: A challenge for new government

Food Security and Agriculture

Developing Indexed-Based Insurance for Agriculture in Developing Countries

FAO. Group of Urban Agriculture for Latinamerica and the Caribbean

Food Security - Others

FAO Diversification booklets

A business Case for Fighting Poverty

Report of an Inter-Agency Meeting to Discuss Ways of Increasing Commitment and Accountability to the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition

Do Small Farmers Borrow Less when the Lending rate Increases? The Case of Rice Farming in the Philippines

Policy Brief: Resilience of Rural Communities to Climatic Accidents