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Global Strategic Framework for Food Security & Nutrition (GSF) Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Global Strategic Framework for Food Security & Nutrition (GSF) Third Version – 2014 Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The four pillars of food security are availability, access, utilization and stability. The nutritional dimension is integral to the concept of food security and to the work of CFS (CFS Reform Document 2009). TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND ............................................................................. 5 A The reform of the Committee on World Food Security, its vision and roles.............................. 5 B Nature, purpose, and process of elaboration of the GSF .................................................................... 6 C Definitions ............................................................................................................................................................. 7 CHAPTER II: THE ROOT CAUSES OF HUNGER, LESSONS LEARNED, AND EMERGING CHALLENGES ............................................................................................................................................ 8 A Structural causes of hunger and malnutrition ....................................................................................... 8 B Past experiences and lessons learned ........................................................................................................ 9 C Emerging challenges and looking ahead ................................................................................................ 11 CHAPTER III: THE FOUNDATIONS AND OVERARCHING FRAMEWORKS ............................. 12 A The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ...................................................................................... 12 B The Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security (VGRtF)...................................................................... 12 C The Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security ................................................. 12 D The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT)...................................................... 13 E High-Level Forums on Aid Effectiveness: .............................................................................................. 13 F United Nations Updated Comprehensive Framework for Action (UCFA) ............................... 14 G Other frameworks and documents .......................................................................................................... 14 2 CHAPTER IV: POLICY, PROGRAMME, AND OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS ........................... 15 A The twin-track approach .............................................................................................................................. 15 B Increasing smallholder-sensitive investment in agriculture ........................................................ 16 Mozambique: UN agencies combine efforts to help farmers ...................................................................... 18 C Addressing excessive food price volatility ............................................................................................ 18 What is AMIS? ................................................................................................................................................................... 21 D Addressing gender issues in food security and nutrition ............................................................... 21 Improving women’s access to finance in Yemen ............................................................................................... 23 E Increasing agricultural productivity and production in a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable manner ..................................................................................................... 23 F Nutrition .............................................................................................................................................................. 25 THE REACH ENDING CHILD HUNGER AND UNDER NUTRITION INITIATIVE: THE CASE OF BANGLADESH ................................................................................................................................................................... 27 G Tenure of land, fisheries and forests ....................................................................................................... 27 GOVERNANCE OF TENURE OF LAND, FISHERIES AND FORESTS ........................................................... 29 H Addressing Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises ..................................................... 30 I Social ProTection for Food Security and nutrition ............................................................................ 31 J Food Security and Climate Change ........................................................................................................... 34 K Biofuels and Food Security………………………………………………………………………………………...36 L Investing in Smallholder Agriculture for Food Security and Nutrition………………………….39 CHAPTER V: UNITING AND ORGANIZING TO FIGHT HUNGER .................................................. 43 A Core actions at country level ...................................................................................................................... 43 Brazil – a success story in institutionalizing multi-ministerial coordination and civil society participation to address food insecurity and promote the right to food .............................................. 45 B Improving regional support to national and local actions ............................................................. 46 THE COMPREHENSIVE AFRICA AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (CAADP) .......... 47 C Improving global support to regional and national actions, and response to global challenges ........................................................................................................................................................... 48 D Making it happen: linking policies and programmes with resources ........................................ 50 THE GLOBAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY PROGRAMME (GAFSP) ..................................... 52 E Monitoring and follow-up ............................................................................................................................ 52 3 CHAPTER VI: ISSUES THAT MAY REQUIRE FURTHER ATTENTION ....................................... 56 ABBREVIATIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 57 ENDNOTES ...................................................................................................................................................... 59 4 CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND For the period 2011-2013, a total of 842 million people – or around one in eight people in the world – were estimated to be suffering from chronic hunger, which means that they are not getting enough food to conduct an active life1. The food crisis of 2007–08, followed by the financial and economic crisis in 2009, continuing in 2012, drew stark attention to the daily challenges faced by millions of families around the world in their attempt to overcome hunger and poverty and seek stable livelihoods that support a just and dignified way of life.2 Despite the efforts of many, and the commitment of the international community in the Millennium Declaration to reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015, persistent hunger and malnutrition remains the norm for millions of human beings. A THE REFORM OF THE COMMITTEE ON WORLD FOOD SECURITY, ITS VISION AND ROLES Faced with rising hunger and fragmented governance for food security and nutrition, Member States of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) agreed at the Committee’s 34th Session in October 2008 to embark on an ambitious reform. The CFS Reform, endorsed by all CFS Member States in 20093, redefines the CFS vision and roles, aiming at constituting “the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for a broad range of committed stakeholders to work together in a coordinated manner and in support of country-led processes towards the elimination of hunger and ensuring food security and nutrition for all human beings”. CFS Membership is open to all Member States of FAO, WFP or IFAD, or non-member States of FAO that are Member States of the United Nations, and its Participants include: representatives of UN Agencies and bodies with a specific mandate in the field of food security and nutrition; civil society and non-governmental organizations and their networks; international agricultural research systems; international and regional financial institutions; and representatives of private-sector associations and private philanthropic foundations. The decisions of the CFS are adopted on the basis of consensus among Member States, who have sole voting rights. The vision of the reformed CFS is to “strive for a world free from hunger where countries implement the voluntary guidelines for the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security”.4
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