Securing nutritious food for the world’s growing population is essential to ensure health and quality of life. But beyond that, it can be a driver for development. It creates rural employment, which can reduce migration. It boosts...
Jean-Pierre Halkin, head of the rural development, food security and nutrition unit at EuropeAid, has explained how the profound impact of undernutrition went overlooked for too long by the international community. "The global...
Climate change and extreme weather, population growth, galloping urbanization and soil degradation impact the lives of an unprecedented number of people today. More communities are exposed to possible natural or economic disaster...
Ending food crises requires immediate humanitarian assistance but also long-term support to limit future shortages. How to advance this ‘twin-track approach’ to nutrition was one of the main agenda items when the Executive...
🔸The third Interim Meeting of the Policy Forum on Development took place in Brussels on the 18th and 19th of June 2013. 🔸Please see here the list of participants. 🔸In the agenda below you will find links to single documents ( ) or...
Eric Turyasingura chases after a ball made from plastic bags outside his mud-brick home in the mountains of southern Uganda. Yelling in his tribal tongue, Nkore, “Arsenal with the ball! Arsenal with the ball!” he jostles with his...
