Online Consultation on Hunger, Food and Nutrition Security
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We are pleased to invite you to the online consultation on Hunger, Food and Nutrition Security - toward a post-2015 development agenda.
As the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, a number of processes have been put in place to seek inputs which will shape the “Post-2015 Development Agenda”. Consultations are being held across the globe, both within and outside of the United Nations system.
For the theme Hunger, Food and Nutrition security, FAO and WFP will be facilitating an e-consultation, which will be part of a larger process also including a consultation with the stakeholders of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and a high level consultation in March 2013, hosted by the Government of Spain.
This e-consultation will be open until 21st December 2012 and we are aiming for the widest possible participation of stakeholders in reviewing challenges and opportunities, priority actions, as well as possible objectives, targets and indicators needed to achieve food and nutrition security, and the eradication of hunger, in a post-2015 world.
Contributions can be posted on the consultation website (www.fao.org/fsnforum/post2015) or sent to and are welcome in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese.
We also invite you to submit papers, findings, or on-going work on the topic of hunger, food and nutrition security.
Please feel also free to circulate this invitation among your colleagues and networks.
For further information and to propose collective contributions please contact us at
This is YOUR OPPORTUNITY to contribute to this global debate and we are looking forward to your participation.
E-Consultation
We seek your inputs on the following three themes:
Theme 1:
What do you see as the key lessons learned during the current Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Framework (1990-2015), in particular in relation to the MDGs of relevance to hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition?
What do you consider the main challenges and opportunities towards achieving food and nutrition security in the coming years?
Theme 2:
What works best? Drawing on existing knowledge, please tell us how we should go about addressing the hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition challenges head on. Provide us with your own experiences and insights. For example, how important are questions of improved governance, rights-based approaches, accountability and political commitment in achieving food and nutrition security?
Furthermore, how could we best draw upon current initiatives, including the Zero Hunger Challenge, launched by the UN Secretary General at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (www.zerohungerchallenge.org), and the Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition elaborated by the CFS?
Theme 3:
For the Post-2015 Global Development Framework to be complete, global (and regional or national) objectives, targets and indicators will be identified towards tackling hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. A set of objectives has been put forward by the UN Secretary-General under Zero Hunger Challenge (ZHC):
a. 100% access to adequate food all year round
b. Zero stunted children less than 2 years old
c. All food systems are sustainable
d. 100% increase in smallholder productivity and income
e. Zero loss or waste of food.
Please provide us with your feedback on the above list of objectives – or provide your own proposals. Should some objectives be country-specific, or regional, rather than global? Should the objectives be time-bound?
Photo credit: ©FAO/Sia Kambou
Posted on 26/11/2012
