PROMOTING THE EXPRESSION “FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY (FNS)” A strategy note from the Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division - AGN

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  • Brian Thompson
  • Leslie Amoroso
  • Janice Meerman
چکیده

FAO, and its Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, needs to maintain its strong and active role in the field of nutrition by providing an agricultural and food friendly perspective to nutritional problems and therefore a food and agriculture approach to their solution. This underlies the importance of FAO for nutrition and the importance of nutrition for FAO. FAO cannot leave it to other agencies to look after nutrition. We need to do it as part of a “One UN” with FAO providing our own complementary and essential contribution to the elimination of hunger and malnutrition from a food and agriculture perspective.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011