Dear all,

I would like to thank you all for coming to the presentation, listening to it over webstream, your comments or your interest. For those who could not follow it at the time of the seminar, can look at the presentation at  http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4367/icode/ . It was web recorded.

Best wishes

Ruth

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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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