Sentences with phrase «national food security»

Climate - smart agriculture, which sustainably increases agricultural productivity and enhances achievement of national food security goals, provides a window of opportunity to avert the impact of drought.

The session was organized by the United Nations Development Programme's Regional Bureau of Arab States, the Qatar National Food Security Programme (QNFSP), Qatar's Global Dry Land Alliance initiative, and the Global Green Growth Forum.

In addition to the Great Future Kitchen, The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation is a key supporter of BGCA's national Food Security Initiative to strengthen and expand the impact of food service programming at thousands of Club locations in the U.S.

In particular, the researchers sought to answer one question: Is there a way to reduce China's water use without decreasing national food security?

And by diversifying crops and creating new income opportunities for farmers, it helps secure sustainable livelihoods, supporting national food security and development goals.

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on 11 May 2012.

Previous sponsors of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements include: ClimateWorks Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, the Qatar National Food Security Programme, and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA).

The United States imports about 90 percent of the seafood its people consume, and aquaculture can help decrease the country's dependence on these imports while increasing our national food security, Seaver says.

The Committee refers the State party to its general comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food and the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, adopted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, as well as to the International Code for Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes.

The President while inaugurating the National Food Security Council, said Nigeria's need for critical job creating sectors ignored for decades was now beginning to yield results.

Buhari said a key mandate of the National Food Security Council is to «continuously assess and enhance these infant, but impactful programs, thereby guaranteeing they achieve their full potential.»

The President noted that the world over, sugar had been identified as a key commodity critical to national food security.

The Presidency on Monday announced that the private sector will play an advisory role in the National Food Security Council which was recently announced by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The National Food Security Council will also have as Members, the Chief of Defence Staff; the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria; the Directors - General of the Department of State Services and the National Intelligence Agency as well as the Comptroller - General of the Nigeria Immigration Service.

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to inaugurate the National Food Security Council on Monday in Abuja.

Buhari said this in his address at the inauguration of the National Food Security Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The membership of the National Food Security Council include the governors of Kebbi, Taraba, Plateau, Lagos, Ebonyi and Delta States.

The National President of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Alhaji Aminu Goronyo on Wednesday commended the Federal Government for inaugurating the National Food Security Council with a call for the inclusion of farmers in the council.

Prior to NUNM, Manda served as a Peace Corps Environmental Action and Food Security volunteer in Togo, West Africa, where she organized a national food security camp for at - risk youth, led nutrition workshops for a national women's empowerment conference, and created a nutrition and feeding program for mothers with malnourished children.

The News: Ram Kishan, Regional Emergency Manager - South Asia, Christian Aid, has said that climate change increased migration as a result of which there was displacement of agricultural producers having implications for national food security.

The Nation: Senate Standing Committee on National Food Security and Research (NFS&R) Chairman Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah has said that National Assembly might pass a law regarding copy rights of new crop varieties.

But officials and experts warn that these spending plans are now at risk due to the arrival of the National Food Security Act, which was passed last month.

Civil society groups have asked Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to reconsider the decision about the proposed insurance - based model of health care for people covered under the National Food Security Act, as this would compromise and sideline the successful free schemes of diagnostics and medicines in practice.

The government has proposed that the new scheme will be launched in April 2015 under the National Food Security Act, providing a robust cover of an amount ranging from Rs. 30,000 - Rs 50,000 in case of minor ailments, and an amount of Rs. 3 Lakhs for people suffering from serious ailments.

This is that coordinated action to address food security nationally should begin with the development of a National Food Security Strategy.