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FactsheetRenforcement des capacités des parlementaires en Afrique favorisant un environnement propice à la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle, y compris le droit à une alimentation adéquate - TCP/RAF/3612 2020
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Despite remarkable progress in some sub-regions and countries, the overall situation of food security and nutrition (FSN) in Africa continues to lag behind global trends. Approximately one out of four persons in Sub-Saharan Africa and one out of five on the continent were estimated to be undernourished in 2015. Although the overall prevalence of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa fell by 30 percent between 1990-1992 and 2015 in absolute numbers, undernourishment increased over the same period and the progress made in tackling hunger did not translate into improved nutrition. The region is not on course to meet most World Health Assembly nutrition targets for the next decade. In 2014 the Malabo Declaration committed African leaders to reducing stunting to 10 percent in Africa by 2025, with the aim of eliminating hunger in Africa in the next decade. The Africa Regional Nutrition Strategy 2015-2025 outlines the specific role of the African Union Commission (AUC) in the elimination of hunger and malnutrition. Evidence has shown that the most effective FSN policies and frameworks are those anchored in legislation. Although the right to adequate food is explicitly expressed in seven national Constitutions in Africa, and implicitly in a further 18, there remains the need to address structural challenges and create an enabling environment for FSN. Given their legislative, budgetary and policy oversight roles, parliamentarians are critical partners in the fight to eradicate poverty and malnutrition. In May 2016, at the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Second Pan-African Parliament over 100 parliamentarians from across Africa -
FactsheetReducing Food and Nutrition Security Risks in Sierra Leone - GCP SIL O45 IRE 2018The production and productivity of most staple crops in Sierra Leone is affected by several factors, including floods, pest and disease infestation, rainfall fluctuations and post-harvest losses, resulting in lower food availability. Against this background, it was necessary to establish a well structured food security and nutrition National Early Warning System (NEWS) to ensure the timely prediction of food availability and access by the population, and facilitate a concerted response when access to food fell below the recommended levels, with high risk of acute and chronic malnutrition. It was also necessary to increase capacity in the country to monitor the trends of food and nutrition security at both national and district level.
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BrochureStimuler les investissements responsables dans l’agriculture et les systèmes alimentaires des jeunes au Libéria et en Sierra Leone 2022
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Cette brochure explique le travail effectué par la FAO pour donner aux jeunes les moyens de s'engager dans un investissement responsable dans l'agriculture et les systèmes alimentaires au Liberia et en Sierra Leone. Ce travail a été financé par le gouvernement fédéral d'Allemagne et le Mécanisme multidonateurs flexible de la FAO.
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