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

• GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT 2015: ACTIONS AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO ADVANCE NUTRITION & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
• GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT 2015, AFRICA BRIEF: ACTIONS & ACCOUNTABILITY TO ADVANCE NUTRITION & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
• From famine to food basket: how Bangladesh became a model for reducing hunger

• 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

• ICCO's involvement with Food Security & Nutrition

Acknowledgements

• Food Security Portal. Agriwaterpedia
• Food security. Wikipedia.
• ICCO