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We support the following initiatives:
Civil Society Organisations for the Committee on World Food Security
CSO4CFS is an online community where civil society representatives from around the world can receive up to date information on all matters related to the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), its intercessional activities and yearly plenary sessions. Find out details on how your organisation can influence policy at the global, regional and national levels through the Civil Society Mechanism in the newly reformed CFS, where civil society are able to contribute and engage alongside Member States in pressing policy issues.
Civil Society Organisations for the Committee on World Food Security
Global Food Security and Nutrition Dialogue
Join a growing online community, to share ideas and work together to improve food security and nutrition governance and accountability. The Global Food Security and Nutrition Dialogue enables participation and discussion between NGOs and other interested civil society actors on all aspects of global food and nutrition governance. Exchange knowledge by starting your own discussion thread, contributing to pre-existing debates, view/add events and connect with fellow food security and nutrition experts.
The Global Food Security and Nutrition Dialogue
Food Security in Asia
In 2010 the Centre for International Security Studies secured funding from The MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Initiative (ASI) for a two-year project on Food Security in Asia. The project (2011-2012), examines how political, economic, demographic and environmental pressures will impact food supply and demand in the region over the next few decades and assess the consequences for regional stability. It aims to illuminate the poorly understood and inadequately researched nexus between underlying issues shaping the dynamics of food demand and supply on the one hand, and political instability and human insecurity on the other.
Food Security in Asia
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About Global Food Security
There are more than 1.02 billion hungry people in the world
Source:FAO 2010
Providing global food security is one of the principle challenges for humanity in current times. The scale of the challenge is immense. According to an FAO estimate over 1 billion people suffer from hunger. One sixth of all humanity currently goes hungry every day. This is a challenge that has reached unprecedented levels in recent years. There are more people hungry today than at any time since 1970.
Malnutrition has also been growing since the mid-1990s, and in 2008 was affecting approximately 915 million people. These trends are expected to worsen given high food prices, and structural issues relating to the recent downturn in the global economy.
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