Foreign Policy In Focus | International Affairs, Peace, Justice, and Environment Africare CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Home Page - Sacred Heart Community Service The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality - SCSPI The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), one of three National Poverty Centers, is a nonpartisan research center dedicated to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, explaining what's driving those trends, and developing science-based policy on poverty and inequality. CPI supports research by new and established scholars, trains the next generation of scholars and policy analysts, and disseminates the very best research on poverty and inequality. The current economic climate makes CPI activities and research especially important. The following are a few critical poverty and inequality facts: Poverty:The U.S. poverty rate, according to the new Supplemental Poverty Measure, is estimated at 16.0 percent. CPI monitors a wide gamut of other poverty and inequality indicators. The activities of CPI are currently supported with core funding from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Click here to view our calendar of events.
Fighting hunger - EU External cooperation programmes Reducing by half the number of people suffering from hunger by 2015 is a priority for the EU and the International community enshrined in the first Millenium Development Goal. Over 900 million people are estimated to be malnourished - most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa and in South Asia. Even if food prices eased in the second half of 2008, they are still very high and subject to volatility in some developing countries, affecting access to food for low income population groups. What's On Helping people to better cope with future shocks: the EU adopts a new Communication On the 3 October 2012, the European Commission adopted a new communication on helping vulnerable communities in crisis prone areas across the world build resilience to future shocks. The EU Approach to Resilience: Learning from Food Security Crises – Communication and Factsheet Financial support For the period 2007-2013, the EU food security policy is financed through three types of instruments: Background information
AgBioWorld - Supporting Biotechnology in Agriculture EcoVillage Farm: Welcome Center for American Progress Canadian Council for International Co-operation The FSPG formed after the 1996 World Summit on Food Security, bringing together Canadian international development and humanitarian agencies, farmers’ organizations and human rights groups who have worked for decades in sectors related to enhancing sustainable agriculture and food security in developing countries and Canada. It has 23 members (including CCIC). In the early days, the coalition focused largely on two streams of work: ensuring the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture did not negatively affect food security in developing countries where agriculture is crucial for the livelihoods of poor people; and on untying food aid and encouraging Canada to use its aid dollars to support smallholder farms and promote sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods. Fertile Ground? Assessing CIDA’s investments in food and farming (July 2013) (PDF 1.1 Mb) Canada and the global land rush (April 2013) (PDF 674 Kb) Policy Brief: Building an Effective Canadian Food Strategy (September 2009) (PDF 119 Kb)
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