37th CFS Plenary Session, 17-22 October 2011, Rome
The CFS is the United Nations' forum for reviewing policies concerning world food. It is the most inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all relevant stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition.
Please visit our About section.
26 August 2010 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed a new campaign launched by the Angolan Government to reduce maternal and infant mortality, and encouraged authorities to ensure the necessary budget resources to improve health for women and children.
The campaign focuses on strengthening the health system at the municipal level by providing improved maternal and child health-care services, as well as teaching healthy habits for mothers and children at home.
A recent Angolan Government survey showed significant strides in reducing maternal and infant mortality since 2002. The rate of under-five deaths has dropped from 250 to 195 per 1,000 live births, while the maternal mortality rate decreased from 1,400 to 660 per 100,000 live births.
15 June 2010 – Angola has made considerable strides in achieving more than half of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including those on malnutrition and child health, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today.
The finding is based on preliminary data from the first nationwide survey to collect development indicators since the end of Angola’s long-running civil war.
UNICEF and the country jointly conducted the first-ever Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), which found that progress has been made in five of the eight MDGs: malnutrition; education; gender balance; child survival and malaria; and HIV/AIDS.
Malnutrition has dropped from 35 to 23 per cent, while school enrolment has surged to 76 per cent.
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