With over 6 200 members from 130 countries, and through a diverse and open knowledge exchange system, dgFoodSecurity on the Development Gateway aims to draw on users experience to identify some of the key issues in food security, elaborate on them through constructive, open debate and point to the best resources available to resolve those issues.
To date, over 2 280 resources and hundreds of news items in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese are available. Browse the event calendar with over 110 events listed for 2005 on relevant food security issues, and search the AIDA database with some 14 791 development projects.
Registration to dgFoodSecurity is free. They also offer similar resources on gender, population and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, poverty, trade and more. To learn more about the Development Gateway Foundation, see the link below
As a starting point the guide has identified the following key areas in food security:
- World Food Summit: five years later
- Africa
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Biotechnology and GMOs
- Emergencies
- Gender
- Nutrition and Health
- Policy
- Sustainable livelihoods
- The right to adequate food
- Trade
- Training
- Water
Users are invited to contribute to the development of these key issues and to suggest new ones.
World Food Summit Africa Biotechnology Emergencies Gender Nutrition Policy Sustainable livelihoods Water rural development health agriculture trade gmo right to food