Archive for year: 2019
Duty Station: London, UK
Duration: Fixed term 12 months
Deadline for application: 24 May 2019, 5:00pm
Duty Station: Rome, Italy
Duration: one year with possibility of extension
Deadline for application: 20 May 2019
The assessment, which is based on UN Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme missions to the country last month and in November 2018, concluded that the reduced harvest, coupled with increased post-harvest losses, has led to an uncovered food deficit of 1.36 million metric tons after considering the commercial import capacity of the country.
3 May 2019 at 9:00 EDT
As the call for universal coverage of public health interventions gains momentum, we need to ask: are anaemia prevention programmes doing enough to improve women's health? Is there a space for double duty actions?
Double-duty actions are public health interventions, programmes and policies that have the potential to simultaneously reduce the risk or burden of both undernutrition and overweight, obesity or diet-related non-communicable diseases.
To date, in 54 countries anaemia and obesity in women are of public health concern. Please join us in the next webinar as we discuss how our community can consider shared drivers and solutions towards developing stronger integrated programmes in these countries.
Register here.
Duty Station: Montreal, Canada
Duration: full time, fixed term position for one year, renewable.
Deadline for application: 15 May 2019
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, please send your CV, a detailed cover letter outlining your interest in the position and how your background meets the qualifications, along with three professional references to: keri.butt@godan.info with “M&E AND RESEARCH COORDINATOR” in the subject line of the e-mail.
Please mention in your cover letter where you heard about the position.
Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. Please apply by 15 May 2019.
If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who released the report - drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that prolonged droughts and heavy rain have destroyed more than half of the maize and bean crops of the subsistence farmers along the Central American Dry Corridor, leaving them without food reserves and affecting their food security.
“Major investments in rural development and agriculture must be integral to peacebuilding efforts”, FAO's Director-General said in a visit to a project for pastoral resilience in the Sahel region, where FAO and the EU are partnering against hunger through strengthened food insecurity and supporting policy change.
The new version of the IPC Technical Manual, in addition to the IPC's Acute Food Insecurity scale, incorporates two new scales, measuring chronic food insecurity and acute malnutrition, and a new classification of the IPC Acute Food Insecurity scale's Phase 5, called ‘Famine Likely'.
FNC is once again exhibiting at the ZITF!!! Visit our stand and learn more about us. Our competent staff are on the ground to interact with you!!!
José Graziano da Silva called on international community to advance the establishment of trade rules and regulations that encourage the consumption of healthy and nutritious foods.
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