Food & Nutrition Security Portal

Food and Nutrition security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to food, which is safe and consumed in sufficient quantity and quality to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, and is supported by an environment of adequate sanitation, health services and care, allowing for a healthy and active life (CFS). Food and nutrition security is defined by four dimensions: right to adequate food, availability, accessibility, and utilization.

Sustainable global food system

A sustainable, global food system should be grounded in human rights, most particularly the Right to adequate food and its obligation to progressively take steps to reach a world where everyone is food secure and malnutrition is eliminated. The human rights approach compels us to pay special attention to those most vulnerable to hunger, including family farmers, with a special focus on infants, young children, adolescent girls and women of reproductive age.

Nutrition

Nutrition is integral part of food security. The WHO defines Nutrition as the intake of food, considered in relation to the body’s dietary needs. Good nutrition – an adequate, well balanced diet combined with regular physical activity – is a cornerstone of good health. Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, increased susceptibility to disease, impaired physical and mental development, and reduced productivity.

Food & Nutrition Security Introduction

Right to Food

Availability

Access

Utilization

Right to Adequate
Food (RtAF)

Voluntary
Guidelines for
Realization of RtAF

Rights-based Food
and Nutrition Policies

Sovereign
Food Systems

Monitoring Realization
of the RtAF

Civil Society
for the RtAF

Sustainable
Food Production

Agriculture for
Improved Nutrition

Nutrition Sensitive
Value Chains

Homestead
Food Production

Food Loss
and Waste

Addressing Food
Loss and Waste

Addressing Food
Loss and Waste
- Examples

Productive Sanitation
& the Link to
Food Security

Livelihood and
Access to Food

Food Systems
& Access to Food

Food Supply
Chains & Markets

Monitoring Access
to Food

Household Food
Insecurity Access
Scale (HFIAS)

HFIAS Questionnaire

HFIAS Questionnaire
(in context)

Nutritional Needs
During the Lifecycle

Nutritional Value
of Major
Food Groups

Food-based
Dietary Guidelines

Healthy Diets
During the Lifecycle

Food Safety

Nutrition Education
- Design

Nutrition Education
- Outcome Mapping

Nutrition Behavioral
Change and
Communication

Monitoring Nutrition
- Women

Dietary Diversity
Questionnaire
for Women

Monitoring Nutrition
- Infants and
Young Children

WASH and Nutrition

Manuals, videos and links

Webinar #22: Water-Smart Agriculture in East Africa. Farmers, and particularly smallholders, have a huge role to play in Africa's economic development. Their capacity to increase yields, derive higher incomes and support more sustainable future farming will be central to successful (and more inclusive) economic growth strategies. This webinar is about one key factor at the centre of farming development — the establishment of Water-Smart Agriculture (WaSA). Nested within the broader contexts of Climate-Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Intensification, WaSA is an approach to developing and using water in smallholder farming that seeks to systematise thinking on investments, enabling farmers and those working with them to make sound strategic choices within rapidly evolving social, economic and physical systems and amidst major climate uncertainty.
Water-Smart Agriculture in East Africa, a collaborative effort by CARE, GWI, IWMI, and CGIAR. A 321-page sourcebook for improving water management for smallholder farmers.

How to feed 9 billion people?	Bringing together agriculture, nutrition, and health	Zero Hunger Challenge - UN Secretary	Food Security in East Africa
ICCO - Message World Food Day 2014	Increasing Food Security for the Most Vulnerable Countries	Food Security - Mapping for sustainable intensification	The right to food - An overview by Olivier De Schutter