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The Food Security Cluster
The Food Security Cluster is about enhancing cooperation and partnerships. The FSC works directly with its partners and stakeholders that include international NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, other cluster lead agencies, UN organizations, Governments and Donors. Read More
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The global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) meeting of partners will be held from 17 to the 18 April in Rome, Italy.
The meeting will bring together more than 60 participants and observers representing 28 different partner agencies.
The overall purpose of the meeting is to review the work of the gFSC throughout 2012/2013 and to identify the strategic direction for 2013-2015.
The Working Group face to face meetings will take place on the 16th of April in Rome.
Read MoreThe global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) meeting of partners was held from 24 to 25 October 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting brought together more than 60 participants and observers representing 28 different partner agencies. The meeting was chaired by Hilary Dhliwayo-Motsiri, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
The overall purpose of the meeting was to review the work of the gFSC throughout 2012 and to identify the strategic direction for 2013-2014. The specific objectives of the two day meeting were to:
Read MoreNearly 870 million people, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
The vast majority of the hungry, 852 million, live in developing countries -- around 15 percent of their population -- while 16 million people are undernourished in developed countries.
JOHANNESBURG, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - Quietly, a revolution to develop cheap ways to draw water for irrigation is unfolding in small villages and rural regions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, a new three-year
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