Over 85% of the world's 1 billion youth live in developing countries, with half working in agriculture. The UN works to address youth hunger through school feeding programs, youth organizations, and public awareness campaigns. Reducing hunger requires job opportunities for rural youth, access to resources, and youth participation in food security forums.
GOOD NUTRITION IS THE BEDROCK OF HUMAN WELL-BEING. BEFORE BIRTH AND THROUGHOUT INFANCY, GOOD NUTRITION ALLOWS BRAIN FUNCTIONING TO evolve without impairment and immune systems to develop more robustly. For young children, good nutrition status averts death and equips the body to grow and develop to its full potential. Over the course of the human lifespan, it leads to more effective learning at school, better-nourished mothers who give birth to better-nourished children, and adults who are likelier to be productive and earn higher wages. In middle age, it gives people metabolisms that are better prepared to ward off the diseases associated with changes in diet and physical activity. Without good nutrition, people’s lives and livelihoods are built on quicksand.
GOOD NUTRITION IS THE BEDROCK OF HUMAN WELL-BEING. BEFORE BIRTH AND THROUGHOUT INFANCY, GOOD NUTRITION ALLOWS BRAIN FUNCTIONING TO evolve without impairment and immune systems to develop more robustly. For young children, good nutrition status averts death and equips the body to grow and develop to its full potential. Over the course of the human lifespan, it leads to more effective learning at school, better-nourished mothers who give birth to better-nourished children, and adults who are likelier to be productive and earn higher wages. In middle age, it gives people metabolisms that are better prepared to ward off the diseases associated with changes in diet and physical activity. Without good nutrition, people’s lives and livelihoods are built on quicksand.
Some 805 million people in the world are undernourished, and more than 2 million children die each year of malnutrition. Promoting agriculture for improving nutrition is urgently needed.
In this context, a framework for joint action "Agriculture and nutrition: A common future” was launched by the European Commission, FAO, the World Bank and CTA at the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), held in November 2014, in Rome.
The framework was presented by CTA’s Director, Michael Hailu, and lays out how the four organisations will align their efforts to deliver concrete actions that make a difference to those most affected by malnutrition.
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World Food Programme Zero Hunger: the Heart of the 2030 Agenda (factsheet)World Food Programme
The mission of the UN World Food Programme is to end global hunger by providing frontline assistance in emergencies and working with partners to address the underlying causes of hunger. WFP is working towards a world with Zero Hunger by 2030, as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Some 805 million people in the world are undernourished, and more than 2 million children die each year of malnutrition. Promoting agriculture for improving nutrition is urgently needed.
In this context, a framework for joint action "Agriculture and nutrition: A common future” was launched by the European Commission, FAO, the World Bank and CTA at the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), held in November 2014, in Rome.
The framework was presented by CTA’s Director, Michael Hailu, and lays out how the four organisations will align their efforts to deliver concrete actions that make a difference to those most affected by malnutrition.
For more information, please visit http://bit.ly/1F8aOOf
International world food day A Presentation By Mr. Allah Dad Khan on 16th Oct...Mr.Allah Dad Khan
International world food day A Presentation By Mr. Allah Dad Khan on 16th October 2015 At Agriculture Training Institute Peshawar. Minister Agriculture KPK was the Chief Guest of the event.
World Food Programme Zero Hunger: the Heart of the 2030 Agenda (factsheet)World Food Programme
The mission of the UN World Food Programme is to end global hunger by providing frontline assistance in emergencies and working with partners to address the underlying causes of hunger. WFP is working towards a world with Zero Hunger by 2030, as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Today one in nine people – 805 million worldwide, many of whom reside in Africa – still go to bed hungry every night. Many more suffer from micronutrient malnutrition. This ‘hidden hunger’ is of great public health concern. Vitamin A, iron and folate deficiencies are debilitating: vitamin A is critical for preventing childhood blindness and protecting the immune system; iron helps prevent iron deficiency anaemia; and folic acid can prevent life-long neural-tube birth defects. These deficiencies hold entire populations back. Children do not develop fully, parents
The Millennium Development Goals set out a mutual commitment between developed and developing countries to make sustained progress towards achieving this vision.
Specifically, the Millennium Development Goals aim to reduce poverty, fight disease and hunger, get girls in school and give more people access to safe water. African countries need to make the most progress if they are to meet these Goals.
The Global Nutrition Report's emphasis on nutritional well-being for all, particularly the most vulnerable, has a heightened significance in the face of this new global threat. The need for more equitable, resilient and sustainable food and health systems has never been more urgent.
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The Year in Review describes WFP’s actions and achievements in serving people’s emergency, recovery and development needs in 2015. It covers WFP’s provision of vital, common platforms and services for the humanitarian and development community.
This technical paper has been produced by the United Nations Programme on Youth in the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and the NGO Restless Development, in the context of the International Year of Youth.
The purpose of this document is to explore cooperation between youth and the private sector. It is part of a series of technical papers aimed both at strengthening youth participation at all levels through cooperation among various stakeholders, as well as at highlighting the role of youth as agents of development. Building on Youth participation in development, which provides guidance to development agencies and policymakers, and the Activities kit, which provides guidance to young people on celebrating the International Year of Youth, this technical paper is a tool geared towards enhancing partnership between youth and the private sector.
1. Dialogue and Mutual Understanding
Fact Sheet: Youth and Hunger
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WFP work with agricultural youth associations and networks and undertake youth develop-
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Walk the World” and “Billion for a Billion” have been developed to highlight unacceptable levels
of world hunger.
Halving the number of undernourished by 2015 from 1990 levels was the goal of the 1996 World Food Sum-
mit and the target of the Millennium Development Goal 1. Unfortunately, however, hunger and malnutrition
rates in the world continue to grow and are accelerating due to the current unprecedented financial crisis and
the 2008 food crisis.
The combination of lower incomes and higher prices has caused food, a basic right for all, to be beyond the
reach of millions of people. One sixth of all of humanity – approximately 1 billion – are hungry and under-
nourished. The hardest hit are populations in rural areas, especially in regions of sub-Saharan Africa and South
Asia. Children and young people, particularly girls, are among the most vulnerable as, hunger and malnutrition
severely affect their physical and mental development and inhibit their ability to learn and participate in social
and recreational activities.
United Nations and the fight against hunger
The United Nations response against hunger is principally carried-out through the three Rome-based agencies:
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP). These agencies work in collaboration with a
number of entities including: governments, research organizations, farmer groups, non-governmental organi-
zations and civil society. They fight hunger through emergency food relief; enabling poor people to overcome
poverty; building capacity through the transfer of knowledge and information; supporting the modernization
of the agricultural sectors; developing programmes on nutrition, and acting as a neutral forum for discussions
and negotiations.
The United Nations has a number of specific programmes and initiatives dedicated to young people. These
programmes range from educational to providing access to resources such as micro credit, financing, and
inputs such as seeds and fertilizers.
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2. The UN agencies also work with agricultural youth associations and networks; support youth organization, in
particular youth farmers’ organizations and youth cooperatives, and undertake youth development projects
and capacity building initiatives in local communities.
Progress
The 2008 G-8 Summit in Japan, the 2009 L’Aquila Joint Statement on Global Food Security, and the 2009 FAO
World Summit for Food Security generated a renewed commitment by world leaders to end hunger.
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) — the intergovernmental body established in 1974 to review
and follow-up on food security policies within the UN system — is under reform to make it more effective.
A new advisory group will include young people who will contribute to the CFS process, by participating in
policy and strategy discussions and exchanging knowledge on practices, technologies and expertise.
Other areas of progress in reducing poverty and hunger include the strengthening of rural development pro-
grammes and initiatives as well as the enlargement of safety nets and social-protection programmes.
Examples of such schemes include national food safety-net programmes, such as the WFP school-feeding
programmes in Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen, and “Cash/or Food for Work” initiatives in the Phillipines, Cote
D’Ivoire, Laos and Djibouti. Voucher programmes in Zambia, Haiti, Afghanistan and Syria are designed to stim-
ulate the local economy by creating jobs and increasing agriculture and local value-added food production.
Every year, WFP feeds more than 20 million children in school-feeding programmes in some 70 countries. The
number of girls reached by these programmes has increased from 0.8 million in 2002 to 10.2 million, or 47
per cent, in 2009. In northern rural Indian, girls’ attendance increased by 15 per cent, rising by 30 per cent the
changes for a complete primary education.
UN Agencies have also developed a number of public awareness campaigns to highlight the unacceptable
levels of hunger in the world. Examples include FAO’s “1 billion hungry campaign” (see: www.1billionhungry.
org/yunga), WFP’s “Fight Hunger: Walk the World” initiative (http://walktheworld.wfp.org) and the “Billion for
a Billion” campaign (www.wfp.org/1billion). Other educational resources include the “Students and Teachers”
section of the WFP Web site (www.wfp.org/students-and-teachers) and FAO’s “Feeding Minds” and “Right to
Food” initiatives (www.feedingminds.org and www.fao.org/righttofood).
Youth are always at the core of these campaigns and initiatives, through participation as well as the organiza-
tion and promotion of events.
The way forward
Denying children and young people an education and placing them in work situations that interfere with their
health, mental and physical growth hinders training opportunities for more skilled jobs. Hunger and malnour-
ishment prevent poor people, especially the young, from escaping poverty because it diminishes their ability
to learn, work and care for themselves.
Appropriate policy, financial investment and incentives need to be created to reward farming and prevent the
large-scale migration of young people to urban areas. Adequate education, vocational training and professional
training opportunities are necessary to prepare young people for life in rural areas. Assistance and access to
resources, such as technical knowledge, finances, land, water, seeds, fertilizers, equipment, technologies and
markets also need to be provided.
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3. Additional opportunities should be provided for young people to engage and contribute to national and inter-
national fora and platforms dealing with food security, such as the CFS. Such involvement would ensure that
local concerns are considered and concrete programmes of action created with the long-term commitment
of young people.
For further reading
zz Feeding minds fighting hunger: www.feedingminds.org/
zz State of World Insecurity in the World 2009: www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0876e/i0876e00.HTM
zz FAO at Work 2008-2009: Hunger and Crisis: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i1023e/i1023e00.pdf
zz ILO FAO: Food, Agriculture Decent Work: www.fao-ilo.org/fao-ilo-youth
zz Rural Youth: www.fao.org/sd/erp/ERPRuralYouth_en.htm
zz YUNGA Web site: www.yunga.org
zz Junior Farmer field and Life Schools: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i1208e/i1208e00.pdf
zz World Food Programme Youth Outreach web site: http://www.wfp.org/students-and-teachers
This Fact Sheet was prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Programme on Youth. It is
part of a collaborative effort of the Inter-Agency Network for Youth Development, coordinated by the
United Nations Programme on Youth.
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