October 21, 2014 By: Abdessalam OuldAhmed, Assistant Director General and Regional Representative - FAORNE Collective action is needed to address the food security challenge in the Near East and North Africa Region (NENA). The State of Food Insecurity 2014 report that has just been released by the three UN Rome-based agencies, shows that, in contrast with […]
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Going Regional for Food Security
October 13, 2014 By: Nadim Khouri, Deputy Executive Secretary – UN ESCWA Subsidiarity. Subsidiarity is the principle that allocates decision-making responsibilities to the individuals or entities that are primarily affected by these decisions. Decisions are only “bumped up” to the larger community level, territorial level, national level, regional, or even global level, if they cannot be […]
Overcoming the Triple Burden of Malnutrition in the MENA Region
October 13, 2014 By: Shenggen Fan, Director General - IFPRI The triple burden of malnutrition—the coexistence of food insecurity, undernutrition, and overweight and obesity—is a growing challenge in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As recent IFPRI research shows, food insecurity is the key driver of conflicts in the region. Tackling the triple burden of malnutrition is […]
The Fight Against Hunger Cannot Be Won Alone
October 13, 2014 By: Gerda Verburg — CFS Chair and Ambassador of the Netherlands to the UN’s Rome-based Agencies With 805 million people worldwide estimated to be chronically hungry in 2012-2014, food insecurity and malnutrition in the world remains everybody’s problem. Gathering stakeholders to work together at national and regional levels can offer opportunities for the […]
Finding a Road to Stability in the Arab Region
October 06, 2014 By: Mahmoud Solh, Director General - ICARDA The string of upheavals in the Arab region in the past three years has been a culmination of several factors, but it’s hard to ignore some hard-hitting facts on the status of food security and unemployment in the region – perhaps even suggestive of a crisis […]
