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The registration is live for CBA19! The 19th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA19) will take place from 12-16 May in Recife, Brazil. The CBA conference series aims to bring together a community of practitioners that are collectively seeking to enable community-driven climate action. We’re very excited that the conference is coming to Latin America for the first time! The overarching conference question will be: how can we achieve just and equitable adaptation?
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024
WWFN: Sea ruling law, milestone on climate and ocean action - NaijaAgroNet
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The World Wide Fund (WWF) strongly supports the new Advisory Opinion published by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which for the first time at a global level defines the legal obligations of states to act on climate change to protect marine ecosystems.

These obligations arise under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which 164 UN member states and the EU are parties.
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Monday, May 8, 2023
Ruto visits GCA headquarters for sake of Africa Climate Action Summit - NaijaAgroNet
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The President of the Republic of Kenya, Mr. William S. Ruto has visited the headquarters of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) in Rotterdam to participate in a Strategic Dialogue on the Africa Climate Action Summit.The Africa Climate Action Summit is being co-hosted by the Government of Kenya and the African Union Commission on 4th to 6th September 2023, and is co-convened by the African Development Bank and GCA. The visit follows a meeting between Professor Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of GCA and President Ruto in Nairobi in February 2023 where they discussed driving the implementation and financing of climate adaptation through the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP).
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
Urban diets and nutrition: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for policy action
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The Global
Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition has launched a new
brief: Urban diets and nutrition: trends, challenges, and
opportunities for policy action, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Just as the President of the African Development Bank Dr. Akinwumi
Adesina has received the World Food Prize 2017.
The brief looks at the challenge of providing
healthy diets in urban environments in low and middle-income countries,
presenting eight recommendations directed primarily at policymakers
especially those working at the sub-national level.
Attended by Global Panel Members Akinwumi Adesina, President, African
Development Bank and 2017 World Food Prize laureate; Agnes Kalibata,
President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa; Tom Arnold, Former
Director General, Institute of International and European Affairs; and Emmy
Simmons, Senior Adviser, Non-resident, to the Center for Strategic and
International Studies Global Food Security Project; former Assistant
Administrator, US Agency for International Development.
66 per cent of the world’s population is projected to be urban by 2050. The additional 2.5 billion urban residents will live primarily in Africa and Asia. This is leading to a growing crisis of urban malnutrition. “There is an urgent need for better urban governance around food, nutrition and health”, said Adesina. “Urban populations need improved information on how to live well by eating well.” The brief gives particular focus to the growing threat of diet-related non-communicable disease. The greater wealth in urban centres, relative to rural areas, does not necessarily lead to healthier diets, with excessive consumption of highly-processed foods that are high in calories but low in nutrients. Emmy Simmons argues that “within complex, diverse urban environments, poor dietary choices could create a further financial burden, with rising levels of overweight or obesity generating increases in the health care costs associated with non-communicable diseases”. The eight recommendations in the brief call for a wider policy approach which integrates actions from food, agriculture and nutrition into urban planning, education, health, sanitation, water and infrastructure development. It will also require a shift in attitudes towards the informal food sector and the collection of better data on urban diets. The brief shows how policymakers at the local level need to champion better diets and nutrition, but this requires them to be both mandated and empowered to act. Panel Member Tom Arnold argues that these “public policymakers need to recognise that productivity, quality of life and life expectancy in urban areas will revolve around healthy diets and lifestyles.” Without decisive action, the Global Panel argues that this urban malnutrition crisis will deepen. This is especially important in many low and middle-income countries where urban dwellers do not consume enough basic calories, lack sufficient micronutrients, or suffer from being overweight or obese with associated diet-related non-communicable diseases, leading to a ‘triple burden of urban malnutrition’. As Dr. Kalibata recently stated, “The growing threat of an urban food crisis can no longer be ignored”.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Action on malnutrition is critical – da Silva
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO), Mr. José Graziano da Silva has explained why a global
action is paramount on malnutrition, reports NaijaAgroNet.
He gave this explanation at the recently held United Nations
General Assembly in the New York city, noting that some 159 million children under
the age of five are stunted, which means they have a low height for their age.
“Another 50 million children in that age bracket are wasted
in other words, they have low weight compared to their height,” he said.
The FAO boss also pointed out that some 1.9 billion people
are overweight of whom 600 million are obese.
“And there is a gender dimension to this, too. Malnutrition
continues to disproportionately affect women and girls, who often forgo food
for male family members or lack the income to secure adequate nutrition for
themselves,” he said.
This estimate, NaijaAgroNet gathered, suggested that
maternal and child undernutrition alone cost up to 11 percent of Gross Domestic
Product (GDP), as malnutrition in early life often results in ill health in
adulthood.
Well-nourished children, inversely, are 33 percent more
likely to escape poverty as adults. This means that investing in nutrition has
significant potential to break endemic poverty cycles and boost economic
development by allowing people to live healthy, productive lives.
As with ICN2, stewardship of the Decade of Action lies with
FAO and WHO, who together will focus their efforts on two main objectives.
One is assisting governments in building national policies
and programs that advance nutrition. The other is to align the efforts of
existing global initiatives and social movements towards common goals.
To support concrete action on nutrition programs, both
agencies will further organize special meetings to strengthen countries'
technical capacities to tackle new nutrition challenges.
One example of this is a symposium on Sustainable Food
Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition to be held in Rome December
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NaijaAgroNet recalls that both agencies had agreed to put in
place a solid system for reporting and monitor achievements.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
FAO wants UN member states to take concrete action on malnutrition
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has called on
the government across the world to take concrete action on malnutrition in all
its forms, reports NaijaAgroNet.
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva also said that
the United Nations (UN) Decade of Nutrition offers a critical window for
advances.
He also pointed out that the 10 years running until 2025,
will be a critical time for action to build healthy and sustainable food
systems and end malnutrition in all its forms, stressed at the just ended
United Nations General Assembly celebrating the United Nations Decade of Action
on Nutrition.
"The purpose of the Decade of Action on Nutrition is to
continue to draw the world`s attention to the importance of combatting
malnutrition," he said, reminding governments of their commitments made at
the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) in 2014 and called on
them to transform those commitments into action through national policies and
programmes.
Better governance on nutrition globally, he said,
"starts at country level" emphasizing that nowadays, one in three
people worldwide, pointing out that nearly 2.5 billion people suffer from at
least one form of malnutrition, ranging from hunger to obesity to a lack of
critical nutrients.
"FAO has maintained a great synergy with WHO in leading
the efforts in the fight against all forms of malnutrition. WHO is the lead in
nutrition and FAO is here to complement that work. FAO has developed a work
plan focused on the promotion of healthy food and healthy diets through
nutritional education and the transformation of food systems," said
Graziano da Silva.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Food security: UN, EU launch global network for joint assessments, coordinated action
A new network to achieve joint global food-security assessments
and joint responses to food crises, including those related to phenomena such
as El Niño, was launched in Istanbul Monday by the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and
the European Union, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The Global Network for Food Insecurity, Risk Reduction and Food Crises Response, NaijaAgroNet gathered, would pave the way for enhancing the impact of future responses to food crises at the global level by regularly producing, in real time, joint reports based on key analyses and containing timely response options.
According to FAO, this will prompt coordination among stakeholders and promote joint planning and joint responses to food crises, in addition, to improving learning from past crises and increase the level of transparency and availability of crucial analysis of global needs.
The "Global Network" and its outputs are public goods, available for everybody. Participation in the network will be broadened to all key stakeholders that can contribute to the analysis and/or to the response. The network’s pilot publication “Global analysis of food and nutrition security situation in food crisis hotspots 2016” is the example that a joint analysis is possible. It covers 70 countries affected by a food crisis in 2015, including chronically vulnerable countries at or above Phase 2 of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Group wants protection for poor countries against climate change
The Least Developed Countries
(LDCs) group, have advocated protection for poor countries from the menace of
climate change as there is a big risk of loss of key issues if they are not protected.
The chairman of the group, Pa
Ousman Jarju of the Gambia said there is a great need to massive increase in
funds for adaption and for action in order to reduce emission. "We need to
set up a proper international coordination process to deliver resources for
adaptation to those in most need," he advised.
In a press statement made available
to NaijaAgroNet by
the International
Institute for Environment and Development, Pa Jarju listed global
warming causing drought, water and food shortages as part of the major
challenges facing the world at the moment which call for actions.
He also said there are no chances
of survival if the necessary issues are being deferred till 2015 when a new
agreement will be negotiated.
According to Pa Jarju, drought in the USA only
cost insurance companies money, while droughts in the LDCs are causing loss of
life and livelihoods, malnutrition in our children and huge dislocation which
is very serious for our survival.
“It is extremely important that governments
agree to respect the commitments they have already made to provide finance,
technology and capacity building to developing countries and to enhance
cooperation to help them adapt to the impacts of climate change and not to use
the focus on a new processes to avoid past promises. We cannot indefinitely
delay action, especially with regard to climate change, which is already upon
us,” he said.
aid.
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