Events
The Governance Dimension of the MDGs in Africa (held May 21, 2008): http://www.ony.unu.edu/seminars/2008/Governancedimension/index.shtml See also Africa Series below.
PLAN 2008- THE FRENCH AFRICAN NUTRITION LEADERSHIP PROGRAM 23-30 June, Maroc
EUROFIR COURSE ON PRODUCTION AND USE OF FOOD COMPOSITION DATA IN NUTRITION
6-17th October 2008, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
The course is especially intended for participants from Central and Eastern European countries, Middle East, North Africa and Latin America (both EuroFIR and non-EuroFIR partners) who are involved or start to become involved in nutritional database programmes as analysts and/or compilers.
EuroFIR has made 20 fellowships available to participate in this course.
The deadline for application is: 15th of June 2008
For detailed information see the attached course brochure with application form.
You will also be able to find the same information at the EuroFIR Public Website http://www.eurofir.net under the button "training".
UNU/CORNELL AFRICA SERIES
Message from the UN Secretary General
Cornell University and UNU jointly organized a symposium, “The African Food System and its Interactions with Health and Nutrition” held November 13, 2007 at the United Nations and November 15, 2007 at Cornell University.
The intent of the symposium was to identify the GAPS in knowledge and policy limiting Sub-Saharan Africa from achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the alleviation of hunger, malnutrition, and poor health. The problem is severe in that more Africans suffer from these problems today than in 1990, the beginning of the MDG-period, and the trends continue to worsen. While much in known about the African food systems and African health and nutrition, the understanding of the interaction between food systems and health and nutrition is very deficient and the potential health gains from changes in the food system are frequently overlooked in policy design and implementation. The Symposium recognized the complexity and multidisciplinary nature of the problem and its solutions and is aimed at faculty and students from many disciplines as well as other interested individuals from within and outside Cornell University. It is hoped that the Symposium’s impact will continue to enhance the knowledge about African development in general and the interaction between food systems and health and nutrition in particular and thus be useful in national and international efforts to achieve the MDGs. Participants included Dr Speciosa Wandira, former Vice-President of Uganda, Dr Monty Jones, World Food Prize Laureate and many others.
Jean-Marc Coicaud, director of the UNU office in New York; Cornell President David J. Skorton; Per Pinstrup-Andersen, the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy; and Patrick Stover, director of the UNU Food and Nutrition Program and director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences gave introductory remarks. Message from the Secretary General of the United Nations can be found here.
To view the symposium webcast see archives: http://www.un.org/webcast/
UNITED NATIONS STANDING COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION: HANOI, VIETNAM, 2008
