FOCUS: Partnerships to fight hunger and malnutrition

Video interview: Pride and diversity in local food systems

The 34th session of the Committee on World Food Security at FAO Headquarters in October 2008 included a side event of the Standing Committee on Nutrition on the Impact of high food prices on nutrition. Pablo Eyzaguirre, Senior Scientist, Bioversity International gave a presentation entitled, Coping with high food prices: making better use of local food sources.

 

Watch the video interview with Pablo Eyzaguirre:

 

1. Coping with the impact of high prices on nutrition



2. Local biodiversity for better nutrition



3. Convention on Biological Biodiversity



4. Information on local food sources



5. Pride and diversity in local food systems

 

 

Photo Gallery

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Local community in Benin.
Roberto Faidutti

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Cattle feeding, Benin.
Roberto Faidutti

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Woman preparing a local dish, Ndjamena,Chad.
Roberto Faidutti

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School children eating, Bogor, Indonesia.
Roberto Faidutti

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Rice plantation, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Roberto Faidutti

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Restaurant scene, Lebanon.
Roberto Faidutti

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Tomato production, Lebanon.
Roberto Faidutti

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Fruit market, Lebanon.
Roberto Faidutti

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Drying of fish, Mauritania.
Roberto Faidutti

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Protection of grains against birds, Atar, Mauritania.
Roberto Faidutti

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Girl watering pine in Kathmandu. Nepal.
FAO/ Mcdougall

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New species of carrots introduced by FAO project in the Kathmandu valley.
FAO/Bizzarri

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New irrigation techniques against the drought, Nigeria.
FAO/ Imevbore

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Woman trying out a new grain mill in Bolivia. FAO/Iversen

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Woman cleans and packs cassava (manioc) after it has been sun-dried, Nigeria.
FAO/Tratagni

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Street food, Belem, Brazil.
Roberto Faidutti

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Transporting fruit on boats, Brazil.
Roberto Faidutti

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Indigenous woman selling her vegetables at Sucre food market, Bolivia. FAO/Grossman

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Girl feeding a small child in asylum, Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso.
Roberto Faidutti

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Scenes from a local market, Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso.
Roberto Faidutti

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Women selling "sumbara", Burkina Faso.
Fauduti

Transporting of maize in Honduras

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Women preparing food, Chad.
Roberto Faidutti

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Woman selecting leaves, Ndjamena, Chad.
Roberto Faidutti

 
 

Facts on hunger and malnutrition

From FAO estimates, 40 million more people became undernourished in 2008 as a consequence of the food price crisis, raising the number to 963 million hungry people.
Read more.

 
 
 
 

Quilombolas Children

To read the interview with Ms. Ana Lúcia Pereira from Brazilian National Alliance CONSEA click here.