Resources

Food security

Comprehensive Framework for Action

Authoring organization(s): High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis

Published: 2008

Summary: The Comprehensive Framework offers a six-point plan for action to address the global food security crisis and provides a range of options for activities to implement to improve the situation.

Topic(s): Food security

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

Feed the Future Guide

Authoring organization(s): US Government

Published: 2010

Summary: The Feed the Future Guide describes the strategic approach and implementation structures of Feed the Future, the US global hunger and food security initiative. It is intended to inform partners and stakeholders about the development of Feed the Future and how the principles are translated into actions on the ground.

Topic(s): Food security

Type(s): Guide, website

Region: Global

Global Food Security Crisis Website

Authoring organization(s): United Nations

Published: 2009

Summary: This website, produced by the United Nations, contains news, background, country-specific information, events, and resources related to the global food security crisis.

Topic(s): Food security

Type(s): Website

Region: Global

Global Food for Thought

Authoring organization(s): The Global Agriculture Development Project

Published: 2009

Summary: Global Food for Thought is a weekly news brief that follows media, research, and policy developments on issues surrounding agricultural development. Briefs provide summaries of and links to articles, reports, events, and publications on issues such as agriculture, hunger, poverty, climate change, development, water, commodities, and agribusiness.

Topic(s): Food security

Type(s): Newsletter

Region: Global

Maximizing Nutritional Benefits from Agricultural Interventions

Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project

Published: 2010

Summary: This PowerPoint, presented at the Global Health Council’s 37th Annual International Conference on Global Health in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2010, discusses the intersection between agriculture and nutrition and describes a nutritional impact assessment tool to help program planners meet the vision of initiatives addressing nutrition, global hunger, and food security.

Topic(s): Food security

Type(s): PowerPoint

Region: Global

Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poverty

Authoring organization(s): The Chicago Initiative on Global Agriculture Development

Published: 2009

Summary: The Chicago Initiative on Global Agriculture Development’s report includes five recommendations and more than 20 specific suggestions for how the United States, through increased agricultural development assistance and partnerships at home and abroad, could help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and restore the United States as a force for positive change in the world.

Topic(s): Food security

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger

Authoring organization(s): Bread for the World, CARE, PATH, et al.

Published: 2009

Summary: The roadmap, and supporting documents, assembled by a coalition of non-governmental organizations, sets forth a comprehensive and strategic plan that addresses world hunger in the short, intermediate, and long term. This approach seeks to increase funding for key interventions needed to alleviate global hunger and ensure better coordination among existing US government programs.

Topic(s): Food security

Type(s): Advocacy document

Region: Global

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