Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition - Fifth Version, October 2016

ThisGlobal Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition(GSF) is a single, livingdocumentannually approved by the CFS Plenary (Committee on World Food Security). Its purpose is to improve coordination and guide synchronized action by a wide range of stakeholders. The GSF shall be flexible so that it can be adjusted as priorities change. The main added value of the GSF is to provide an overarching framework and a single reference document with practical guidance on core recommendations for food security and nutrition strategies, policies and actions validated by the CFS. The GSF is not a legally binding instrument. It offers guidelines and recommendations for catalysing coherent action at the global, regional and country levels by the full range of stakeholders, while emphasizing the primary responsibility of governments and the central role of country ownership of programmes to combat food insecurity and malnutrition.

The key aspects analysed in the text are divided in three central sections:

1. Root causes of hunger and malnutrition

2. Foundations and overarching frameworks (the MDGs, the SDGS, the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to food in the context of national food security, the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security, the VGGT, the Principles for responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food systems, the Framework for Action for Food security in Protracted Crisis, High level forum on Aid Effectiveness, etc.)

3. Policies, Programmes and recommendations.

The document has been updated and the 5^thversion has been presented during theCFS43in October 2016 at FAO headquarters.