Zero Hunger
Project partners
The International Trade Centre, founded in 1964, is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations. Its aim is for businesses in developing countries to become more competitive in global markets, to speed up economic development and to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
An African Strategic Framework for Food Systems Transformation
Food systems are how we produce, process, distribute, prepare, and consume food, and also include the impact of these activities on people and the planet. In this regard, agricultural food systems provide more than just food. They also provide fibers, biofuels, and many other elements not only directed to food. They generate significant income for rural households, allowing them access to food. Women control a considerable part of the agricultural food systems. High- performing agri-food systems provide adequate incentives and returns to food producers, processors, and distributors and deliver sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to well-informed consumers with minimum delay and spoilage.
Building Africa’s food sovereignty and resilience through sustainable financing
The accelerating pace of climate change, population growth, changing dietary preferences, global pandemic, and conflicts have caused deterioration of food security and nutrition in Africa and have put enormous pressure on the functioning of the agrifood sector in the continent. A key priority is designing and implementing policies and investments toward more sustainable and resilient agri-food systems in Africa. Our analysis of the food system compacts submitted by forty African Member States suggests that about US$76 billion29 in annual investments throughout the value chains will be required in response. However, reaching that amount will only be possible with strong public investments, private capital, and domestic resource mobilization.
Introduction
L’Accord relatif aux transports internationaux de denrées périssables et aux engins spéciaux à utiliser pour ces transports (ATP), fait à Genève le 1 septembre 1970 est entré en vigueur le 21 novembre 1976.
Introduction
The Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be Used for such Carriage (ATP) done at Geneva on 1 September 1970 entered into force on 21 November 1976.
Our findings: The crisis of severe child food poverty
This chapter examines the status, trends and inequities in child food poverty using data from the UNICEF Global Database on Infant and Young Child Feeding, the findings of rapid assessments in countries affected by the global food and nutrition crisis, and an analysis of the links between child food poverty and child undernutrition.
Acknowledgements
This publication was prepared by the UNICEF Child Nutrition and Development Programme of the UNICEF Programme Group in collaboration with the Data and Analytics Section of the UNICEF Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring Division.
Executive summary
Across the world, millions of parents and families are struggling to provide the nutritious and diverse foods that young children need to grow, develop and learn to their full potential. Growing inequities, conflict and climate crises, combined with rising food prices, the overabundance of unhealthy foods, harmful food marketing strategies and poor child feeding practices, are condemning millions of children to child food poverty.
Our recommendations: Ending severe child food poverty
Severe child food poverty is a threat to the survival, growth, and development of an estimated 181 million children under 5 globally, denying them the opportunity to escape social and economic deprivation. The world has the knowledge and resources to fix the failing systems that underpin severe child food poverty, which we must use to bring this injustice to an end.
Our analysis: The forces driving severe child food poverty
This chapter explores the forces driving severe child food poverty in early childhood, why current efforts are failing to improve young children’s diets, and what we can learn from countries that have achieved extraordinary success in reducing severe child food poverty.
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is one of the five United Nations regional commissions, administered by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It was established in 1947 with the mandate to help rebuild post-war Europe, develop economic activity and strengthen economic relations among European countries, and between Europe and the rest of the world. During the Cold War, UNECE served as a unique forum for economic dialogue and cooperation between East and West. Despite the complexity of this period, significant achievements were made, with consensus reached on numerous harmonization and standardization agreements.
Commission Économique des Nations Unies pour l’Europe (CEE-ONU)
La Commission économique pour l’Europe (CEE) est l’une des cinq commissions régionales de l’ONU administrées par le Conseil économique et social. Créée en 1947, elle a été chargée de contribuer à la reconstruction de l’Europe d’après guerre, au développement de l’économie et au renforcement des relations économiques parmi les pays européens et entre l’Europe et le reste du monde. Pendant la guerre froide, elle a constitué un cadre exceptionnel pour le dialogue et la coopération économiques entre l’Est et l’Ouest. En dépit de la complexité de cette période, des avancées majeures ont été enregistrées, ainsi qu’en témoignent les nombreux accords de normalisation et d’harmonisation sur lesquels un consensus a pu être dégagé.
Foreword
One in four children today is living in severe food poverty. This means that they are surviving on one or two food groups a day, and on some days even less. The scale of this deprivation is alarming, and the overall slow progress to address this crisis hides deep inequalities at both global and regional levels.
Acknowledgements
This technical paper was prepared, under the direction of Anu Peltola, Acting Director of the UNCTAD Statistics Service, by Nour Barnat, Alexander Blackburn, Victoria Goudeva, Bojan Nastav and Benny Salo. In addition, the statistics team included Sonia Blachier, Yoann Chaine, David Cristallo, Denis Gervalle and Anton Sudzik, who contributed significantly by undertaking information-system work that underpins the technical paper; Onno Hoffmeister and Amandine Rushenguziminega reviewed the paper, providing feedback and making further contributions.
Acknowledgements
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) are very grateful to the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) for its financial support of the global data collection on voluntary sustainability standards and the production of this publication.
Key data, area and production
Selected commodities grew, but slowly
This chapter examines the harvested area and the production volume of the selected commodities on an aggregate level. As multiple certification remains an issue for some commodities, global totals were computed by adding the country minimums (leading to a global minimum value for each commodity), the country maximums (leading to a global maximum value for each commodity) and the country minimum–maximum averages (leading to a global average value for each commodity).
Project partners
The International Trade Centre (ITC), founded in 1964, is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations. Its aim is for businesses in developing countries to become more competitive in global markets, to speed up economic development and to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Acknowledgements
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) are very grateful to the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) for its financial support of the global data collection on voluntary sustainability standards and the production of this publication.
Delivering essential nutrition actions for women before, during and after pregnancy in South Asia
Each year, over 40 million women in South Asia enterpregnancy with one or more nutritional risks. To ensure thatthey have a healthy pregnancy and safe motherhood,women need access to nutritious diets, nutrition servicesand positive nutrition practices.
Delivering essential nutrition actions for adolescent girls in South Asia
For the 170 million adolescent girls in South Asia to grow anddevelop to their full potential, they need access to nutritiousfoods, nutrition services and positive nutrition practices.
Foreword
From unprecedented levels of global conflict inalmost 80 years to an urgently worsening climate,from the challenges posed by the post-COVID-19pandemic recovery to a dire cost-of-living crisisplunging millions into poverty and hunger, theglobal community seems to be ensnared in a ‘crisisloop’.