Open discussion between 18 April and 31 May 2013
The SDC Agriculture and Food Security Network invites everyone with an interest in questions of gender, land and food security to share their ideas in the Blog. During the six weeks of discussion, the following topics will be treated: Right to Food, Food Crisis, Land Rights, Land Grabs, Governance and Buzzwords/Fuzzwords. more »
Read the follow-up report
After its F2F Meeting 2012 the SDC Agriculture and Food Security Network - together with the Employment and Income Network - held an e-discussion on RAS and M4P. This report shows how the discussion has influenced the work of Network members. more »
A+FS Network Newsletter 03/2013
Now available online
read the feature on SDC's Agriculture and Food Security Portfolio 2009-2011 and news items about the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure, farmers' reactions to climate change, SDC and genetically modified organisms, the impact of rice research, new SDC projects, portraits of Network members and much more »
About the Agriculture and Food Security (A+FS) Network
The first Millennium Development Goal strives for halving the proportion of hungry people between 1990 and 2015, yet we are nowhere near meeting that target. Today, an inacceptable 925 million starving people are still waiting for a famine free era. Reason enough for the international development community to rethink their approaches and investments. The world cannot avoid paying more attention to agriculture, food security and rural development.
The A+FS Network is the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s thematic network for issues related to development cooperation in agriculture, food security and rural development. The A+FS network promotes knowledge exchange and sharing of practical experiences among development practitioners with links to SDC’s activities. more »
