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Dear all,
Within the ESN seminar series, I am giving a presentation tomorrow 15 June 2017 at 11.00 Rome time on Food composition: Achievements, challenges and use in biodiversity and nutrition-sensitive agriculture at FAO Rome (Austria room).

For those not being able to be there personally will have the possibility to follow through web streaming using  http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4367/icode/.

Abstract
FAO is leading global food composition activities since its beginning and has published several regional food composition tables. Since 1999, FAO is  operating its food composition activities through INFOODS, the International Network of Food Data Systems, aiming to improve the quality, availability, reliability and use of food composition data. This fruitful collaboration has led to many instrumental standards, tools, databases and publications in the field of food composition, and more recently also on biodiversity. These public goods assist countries to generate, manage and use food composition data for different purposes. In collaboration with the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA) several documents on biodiversity and nutrition were elaborated, the most important being the Voluntary Guidelines for Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Policies, Programmes and National and Regional Plans of Action on Nutrition. This collaboration laid the foundation to more incorporation of nutrition into agriculture. The new tool 'Nutrient Productivity Scale', which combines yield, food composition and human nutrient requirements, may foster the inclusion of nutrition considerations into agriculture. The presentation will guide through all achievements over the last 15 and more years of food composition, biodiversity and part of nutrition-sensitive agriculture, its links within and outside FAO and will provide some food for thoughts for the future of food composition in FAO.

Best wishes
Ruth

Ruth Charrondiere, PhD
Nutrition Officer
INFOODS coordinator
FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Roma
Italy
Telephone: +39 06 570 56 134
Fax: +39 06 570 54593


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