The Food Security and Nutrition Guide provides a platform for available, UN and non-UN resources on Food Security, Nutrition and related topics.
This guide is intended to provide delegates and UN Secretariat Staff with selected content from both UN and non-UN sources. It references third-party web sites, books and articles. It does not imply the endorsement of the content by the United Nations.
Fresh Fruits Barcelona Spain - FAO Photo
Muleba, Tanzania - FAO Photo
Fiumicino, Italy Farm visit - FAO Photo
France: Boulogne: Field of soft wheat laid flat because of wind and rain - FAO Photo
Homduras, Gualcince: Farmers control soil erosion - FAO Photo
Lao: Sun dried peppers. - - Emergency Supply of Agricultural Inputs to Flood-affected Farm Households
Morocco: Tineghir - FAO Photo
Swaziland: Vulamehlo Community Gardens
MINUSTAH Peacekeepers Distribute Food to Children - UN Photo/Marco Dormino
Farming on the Outskirts of Juba - UN Photo
WFP Food Drop Operation in Bentiu, South Sudan
Opening of UN Food Garden on Occasion of Nelson Mandela Day - UN Photo
High-Level Event "Pathways to Zero Hunger" - UN Photo
Food Shortages in the Midst of Plenty - UN Photo
Rome, Italy - Soy beans for sale -FAO Photo
Pulses and rice on sale at the Esquilino market in Rome - FAO Photo
Burkina Faso: Bean varieties on sale --(FAO Photo)
Secretary-General Speaks At World Leaders Dinner in Davos - UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
"Ending Poverty and Hunger" is part of a UN short film series "The Story You are Shaping". The film premiered at the UN Sustainable Development Summit 2015.
The 1974 World Food Summit defined food security as:
... availability at all times of adequate world food supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain a steady expansion of food consumption and to offset fluctuations in production and prices. (Report of the World Food Conference, Rome 5-16 November 1974. New York)
In chapter 2 of the FAO publication, Trade Reforms and Food Security: conceptualizing the linkages, the definition of the term Food Security is presented as a flexible concept which has evolved over time.
The Committee on World Food Security in document CFS 2012/39/4 has provided further official definition to Food Security and related terms.
For more information on how the definition has evolved, see the FAO publication: Trade Reforms and Food Security: Conceptualizing the Linkages- Chapter 2:2
The Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard, (FLW) provide the first-ever set of global definitions and reporting requirements to quantify and report on food loss and waste.