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FAO seeks to secure a future for rural communities via investments in transportation, irrigation, food storage facilities and communication technologies. FAO promotes the use of renewable energies and works to ensure access to modern energy services across the food chain. The Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative seeks to empower Asian seafood producers, processors, and distributors by establishing place-based social and environmental standards. We’re a global community pushing for food system change.

For a description of the processes of absorption and utilization of food, see nutrition; nutrition, human; digestion; and digestive system, human. For information on the methods used to prepare raw foods for cooking, consumption, or storage, see food preservation. FAO, in partnership with governments and fishing communities, implements best practices in fisheries to ensure our oceans are protected as a means of livelihoods. FAO supports gender equality in the agricultural sector in an effort to raise levels of nutrition in local communities and improve agricultural productivity. Watch the video and discover how Sanja Mikić a Serbian researcher is helping vulnerable farmers use local varieties of seeds to diversify their production and increase resilience to climate change. Food Tank is focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters.

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ChocoTogo, one of the producers invited to the festival, offers visitors the chance to learn about their handmade chocolate making process. Grace Dent invites famous guests to share theirs in the third season of Comfort Eating. FDA is working with U.S. government partners, including CDC, and international partners to address the pandemic. We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning. Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. Thanks to continued trust and growing financial support from our Resource Partners, FAO is working to create a world without hunger or poverty.

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FAO supports countries in responding to the threats of climate change by providing advice, data and tools for better agricultural policies and practices. FAO works with countries and partners to generate employment in rural areas, ensure access to natural resources for the most vulnerable and connect farmers to markets. FAO invests in educational systems for rural communities and supports improved access to primary education and school meals in order to create equal opportunities for all and chances of lifelong learning.

Conflict, disease, inequality, climate change and rising food and fuel prices all threaten food security by denying and restricting access to affordable and nutritious food. FAO seeks better economic opportunities for all by investing in sustainable agricultural practices and food systems that reduce inequalities and create decent jobs. FAO helps ensure food security by developing ways of growing food that will work in the future so that millions of people don’t go hungry. Who says children shouldn’t play in the kitchen? Cooking healthy food starts young in this Touch Smell Taste cooking class in Rome. The hands-on cooking lab led by Naheda Slayih and supported by volunteers, invites visually impaired children to learn how to become young chefs and have a good time too.

Food Tank is a 5013 non profit organization. Hunting and gathering, horticulture, pastoralism, and the development of agriculture are the primary means by which humans have adapted to their environments to feed themselves. Food has long served as a carrier of culture in human societies and has been a driving force for globalization. This was especially the case during the early phases of European trade and colonial expansion, when foods such as the hot red pepper, corn , and sweet potatoes spread throughout Europe to Africa and Asia. Food, substance consisting essentially of protein, carbohydrate, fat, and other nutrients used in the body of an organism to sustain growth and vital processes and to furnish energy.

FAO plays a critical role in peacebuilding, restoring rural livelihoods, building resilience and participatory approaches to policymaking. FAO works with governments and partners to empower some of the world’s most marginalized people to end rural poverty. In Dakar, Senegal, the massive rural urban migration of these last decades led to losses of agricultural land, triggering food shortages and soaring food prices. Listen to how FAO and the local authorities are working together on a micro-gardening project to reduce food insecurity in the city. The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health gave the country with a to-do list.

It’s time to put in the work so everyone recognizes that access to healthy, nourishing, and affordable food is a human right. The global food crisis has highlighted the fragility and fragmentation of the global food system and its vulnerability to shocks. India must adapt and develop long term plans to address such future shocks.