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IMPROVED GLOBAL GOVERNANCE FOR HUNGER REDUCTION PROGRAMME

The Improved Global Governance for Hunger Reduction Programme<http://www.foodsec.org/web> seeks to concretely improve the way in which the global community works together to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. It is funded by the European Union (EU), and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

SELECTED PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES FROM 2012

These are a few examples of the wide range of activities that took place in 2012. Visit the programme website for more publications, tools, e-learning courses, and other resources: http://www.foodsec.org/web

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Endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security were endorsed on 11 May 2012 by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) after months of intergovernmental negotiations. The Guidelines outline principles and internationally accepted standards that governments can refer to when establishing laws or policies on tenure and administering land, fisheries and forests rights.

The Guidelines aim at promoting food security and sustainable development by:

 *   improving secure access to land, fisheries and forests; and
 *   protecting the rights of often marginalized groups, such as indigenous peoples, women, smallholder farmers and pastoralists.

Read the guidelines in your language:
http://www.fao.org/nr/tenure/governance-of-tenure/en/

The EU FAO programme supports work being done to adapt the guidelines to regional and national contexts. An e-learning course on the guidelines is also being developed.

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Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises: Towards an Agenda for Action

A High Level Expert Forum on Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises<http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-home/cfs-fipc/hlef-home/en/> took place in Rome from 13-14 September 2012. The forum drew attention to the plight of some of the most severely food insecure countries in the world which have been suffering from natural disasters, conflict, or other crises for many years.

One outcome of the forum was to provide elements for an “Agenda for Action for Addressing Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises” which was presented at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in October 2012. The CFS will facilitate a process of drafting an Agenda for Action, with support from the programme.

> Find out more<http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-home/cfs-fipc/hlef-home/en/>

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E-learning Course on Social Safety Nets

To help decision makers understand the role safety nets can play in reducing poverty and food insecurity, FAO, in partnership with the World Bank's Safety Nets team<http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTSOCIALPROTECTION/EXTSAFETYNETSANDTRANSFERS/0,,menuPK:282766~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:282761,00.html>, have produced an e-learning course on Social Safety Nets. The course also contains resources for trainers, such as sides and exercises, which can be customised to local needs.

Register for the course in French, Spanish or English at: http://www.foodsec.org/dl/elcpages/food-security-courses.asp?pgLanguage=en

It is available free of charge to all interested users. After passing a test, users will receive a certificate of completion.

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Integrating Nutrition in Agricultural Investments Plans

The programme has contributed to several activities to assist Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) countries in integrating nutrition into their agricultural investment plans.

Activities include organizing a series of regional CAADP workshops aimed at ensuring that nutrition interventions are planned, budgeted and implemented as part of National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans. The workshops are also part of a wider capacity-development process designed to assist countries in enhancing the nutritional impact of national agriculture and food security investment plans.

> Read the Concept note to find out more about the workshops<http://typo3.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/eufao-fsi4dm/docs/CAADP_nut_workshops.pdf>

> Ateliers du PDDAA pour le renforcement des capacités agricoles et nutritionnelles<http://typo3.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/eufao-fsi4dm/docs/CAADP_nut_workshops_fr.pdf>

> Workshop Website<http://www.fao.org/ag/agn/fns/workshops/caadp-nutrition/en/>

The programme is also developing a Guidance Checklist for Mainstreaming Nutrition in Agriculture Investment (currently in draft format).

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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Manual Version 2

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) are protocols that provide a “common currency” for classifying food security. Using a common scale makes it easier for donors, agencies and governments to identify priorities for intervention before they become catastrophic.

On 12 October 2012, the IPC Global Partners ACF, CARE, CILSS, FAO, FEWSNET, FSC, EC-JRC, Oxfam, Save the Children, and WFP officially launched Version 2.0 of the IPC Technical Manual<http://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC-Manual-2-Interactive.pdf>.

The manual provides food security analysts with technical standards and guidelines for conducting an IPC analysis. Version 2.0 of the IPC Technical Manual is a comprehensive revision of the IPC Technical Manual Version 1.1<http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0275e/i0275e.pdf> which aims at overcoming challenges such as:

(1) ensuring that the tool can be applied in diverse countries and regions in the world;
(2) reconciling key differences in approaches to food security analysis among national governments and international agencies, and
(3) clarifying the use of the IPC for non-crisis and developmental contexts and for addressing acute, transitory and chronic food insecurity.

The IPC aims at providing a critical link between complex analysis and decision‐making. The new version is a major step in the direction of agreeing on a common system for classifying food insecurity and identifying who, how many, where populations in need are, and the key causes of their food insecurity.

Read the manual at: http://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC-Manual-2-Interactive.pdf

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Food Price Volatility

FAO has been assisting national governments in designing policies to reduce the negative impact of high and volatile prices, while catalyzing opportunities for developing agriculture.

The EU-FAO programme, in partnership with the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme<http://www.nepad-caadp.net/> (CAADP) , has prepared background papers on:

 *   The nature and causes of fluctuating food prices in Sub-Saharan Africa ; and
 *   Price and production risk management tools in Africa.

The background papers were presented at workshops in Johannesburg<https://www.agriskmanagementforum.org/content/member-update-nepad-agency-workshop>, Rome, Kenya and Sudan. Future publications include:

• Policy briefs based on the background papers
• Guidelines for including risk management tools into agriculture investment plans

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Related publications:

 *   Stabilizing price incentives for staple grain producers in the context of broader agricultural policies<http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap536e/ap536e.pdf>
 *   Welfare Impacts of Rising Food Prices in Rural Ethiopia: a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System Approach <http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/126698/2/IAAE_Welfare.pdf>

See also:

Food Price Volatility Portal: http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-home/cfs-portal/en/




The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, or their partners.

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