This chapter focuses on the multiple facets and meanings of water and how it is a contested resource. It also explores linkages between SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and SDG 2 (Zero hunger).
Search
This book takes a critical look at the Kenyan food system, where it has been, and where it can go.
Developing country food supply chains have been pummeled by a series (and often a confluence) of shocks over the past several decades, including the Russia-Ukraine war, COVID-19, climate shocks from hurricanes to floods to droughts, animal and pla
Interlinking the human rights to water and sanitation with struggles for food and better livelihoods
Safe and secure access to drinking water and sanitation are human rights that are vital to social, economic, and environmental wellbeing.
The role of social identity in improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services: Evidence from Nepal
COVID-19 has revived focus on improving equitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services in developing countries. Most public programming tends to rely on economic indicators to identify and target vulnerable groups.
Second rapid assessment of food and nutrition security in the context of COVID-19 in Bangladesh
FAO Bangladesh coordinated this Second rapid assessment of food and nutrition security in the context of COVID-19 in Bangladesh to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the responses to it, on food and nutrition security in Banglades
Safeguarding the environment and its citizens’ health remains one of the key policy priorities of the governments of many developing and emerging countries.
Food systems and diets are transforming rapidly in many parts of the world, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
Aflatoxin contamination of several crops is common in tropical and subtropical regions. Maize and groundnut, staples for billions of people, are among the most susceptible to contamination, primarily caused by the fungus Aspergillus flavus.
Water and nutrition: Harmonizing actions for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the United Nations Water Action Decade
This paper reviews these challenges as part of a broader analysis of the complex web of pathways that link water, food security and nutrition outcomes.
The national food system of Bangladesh has made substantial progress since experiencing famine in 1974, soon after independence.
Unlike physical losses, deterioration of food safety can be difficult to observe. In low- and middle- income countries, much of the food supply is never tested for safety hazards.
This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture.
Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana
Food safety hazards threaten the health and market access of smallholder farming households.
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the pledge of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind requires collaborative ways of working, such accelerating and scaling cross-sectoral action and policy coherence.
This document summarizes evidence and guidance on project design and results framework indicators for nutrition-sensitive irrigation and water management investments for which improving nutrition in vulnerable populations is a specific objective o
Evaluating risk of aflatoxin field contamination from climate change using new modules inside DSSAT
Aflatoxins affect the health of close to 70 percent of the population of the world through contaminated food.
Pakistan: Getting more from water
This report builds on prior work to provide a new, comprehensive, and balanced view of water security in Pakistan, stressing the importance of the diverse social, environmental, and economic outcomes from water.