Comprehensive Framework for Action
Video report
January 11, 2010—Over 80% of Malawi’s people are smallholder farmers. Agriculture is the main source of income for the country, making up nearly 90% of Malawi’s exports. The government , with help from the World Bank is investing in affordable irrigation systems and offering farmers technical advice and marketing support.
Progress Report
The spike in food prices of last year (2008) underscored what experts have been telling us for many years: the world's food systems are in crisis
- Report Synopsis
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UN Response
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Documents
The Comprehensive Framework for Action
HLTF progress reports
- HLTF- Progress report April 2008-October 2009 (November 2009)
- The UN system response to the world food security crisis (as of September 2008)
Fact sheets
- Madrid meeting 26-27 January to chart action on continuing global food crisis
- Global economic turmoilintensifies the food crisis. Immediate action is required to secure adequate long-term global food supply.
- Comprehensive Framework for Action Summary
- List of Participants
Other key documents from organizations and institutions of the HLTF
Policy
- Implications of higher global food prices for Poverty in Low-Income Countries (World Bank, 2008)
- Increasing Food Prices and Food Security: Diagnostic Issues and Policy Options, UNDP , November 2008.
- Rising food prices and their implications for employment, decent work and poverty reduction (ILO : Technical Information Note 2008)
- Rising food prices and their implications for employment, decent work and poverty reduction(ILO : draft for discussion 2009)
- A Preliminary Anatomy of the Unfolding Global Food Crisis (UNDP , 2008 by P. Conceição and R.Mendoza)
- Don’t forget the food crisis: new policy directions needed (policy brief, DESA , 2008)
- The future of World Food Security (IFAD , factsheet 2009)
- Claiming the Millennium Development Goals: A human rights approach (OHCHR , 2008)
- The Millennium Development Goals Report, (UN , 2008 and UN 2009).
- Analysis of the world food crisis by the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Mr De Schutter (OHCHR , background note 2008)
- Rising Agricultural Prices: consequences and responses (OECD , Policy brief 2008)
- Policy Dialogue on High Food Prices –Outlook and donors mid-term response (OECD , 2009)
- The Environmental Food Crisis (UNEP , 2009)
- The 2008 Food Price Crisis: Rethinking Food Security Policies (UNCTAD , discussion paper 2009)
- Responding to the food crisis: synthesis of medium-term measures proposed in inter-agency assessments (FAO , WFP , 2009)
- Country responses to the food crisis: nature and preliminary implications of the measures pursued (FAO , 2008)
- The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 - Economic crisis: impacts and lessons learnt (FAO , 2009)
- The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2008 –High food prices and food security (FAO , 2008)
- Double Jeopardy: Responding to High Food and Fuel Prices (World Bank , 2008)
Emergency/food assistance/safety nets
- “Global Food Trends” (OCHA , web resource)
- “Food Crisis: news focus” (UN/DPI , Web resource)
- UN News by topic: Poverty, Health, Food Security (UN/DPI, web resource)
- UNHCR's Strategic Plan for Nutrition and Food Security (UNHCR , 2008)
- Coping with high prices and the financial crisis (WFP , factsheet, 2009)
- WFP’s response to high food prices (May 2008, WFP)
- Mitigating the Social Impacts of Crisis in Asia- Revised Practical Policy Recommendations for Lao PDR and for Cambodia (ILO Asia- Pacific Working Paper Series -2009)
Nutrition/Health
- Landscape Analysis of countries' readiness to accelerate action in nutrition. Geneva, Switzerland, WHO , 2009.
- Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition: A survival and development priority, UNICEF, November 2009.
- Landscape Analysis of countries' readiness to accelerate action in nutrition (UN/SCN , 2009)
- The impact of the increase in food prices on child poverty and the policy response in Mali
- Millet prices, public policy and child malnutrition: the case of Niger in 2005 (UNICEF , 2008)
- Food Prices Increases/Nutrition Security: Action for Children (UNICEF , Technical Note 2008)
Small farmers/Agriculture
- Food prices: Smallholders can be part of the solution (IFAD , Factsheet 2008)
- Growing demand on agriculture and rising prices of commodities (IFAD , 2008)
- A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development (DESA, 2009)
- Making Globalization Work for the Least Developed Countries (UNOHRLLS, 2008)
- Improving food security in Arab countries (World Bank, IFAD, FAO , 2009)
- “Agricultural Outlook 2009-2018” (OECD-FAO , highlights 2009)
- The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2009: High food prices and the food crisis – experiences and lessons learned (FAO , 2009)
- The State of Food and Agriculture –Biofuels: prospects, risks and opportunities (FAO , 2008)
- Assessing biofuels (UNEP , 2009)
- Land grab or development opportunity? - Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa (FAO, IFAD, IIED , 2009)
- Green Fuels for Development (OECD , SWAC brief, 2008)
- Making Sustainable Biofuels Work for Smallholder Farmers and Rural Households (FAO)
- The Market and Food Security Implications of the Development of Biofuel Production. Committee on Commodity Problems, Sixty-Seventh Session, Rome, 20–22 April 2009 (FAO)