Este tema diz respeito a todas as questões relacionadas com a segurança alimentar, tal como definida na Declaração de Roma de 1996: «Existe segurança alimentar quando as pessoas têm, a todo momento, acesso físico e económico a alimentos seguros, nutritivos e suficientes para satisfazer as suas necessidades dietéticas e preferências alimentares, a fim de levarem uma vida ativa e sã.». 

Vine ripened red tomatoes grown in back yard garden for food security.

Incorporating Climate Change Considerations into Agricultural Investment Programmes

    This course provides the necessary knowledge to design, develop and implement agricultural projects and programmes that address the challenges of a changing climate. It is useful for professionals working in agricultural development who need to learn how to mainstream effectively climate change considerations in their projects and programmes.
    Duration: 5 hours

    Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

      This e-learning course provides an overview of IPC approach. The goal of this course is to provide guidance on how to use IPC tools and procedures specifically focused on acute food insecurity.

      Duration: 9 hours

      Introduction to Social Safety Nets

        The course provides an overview of Social Safety Net programmes and systems and how they are used and customized according to different contexts. It also introduces the key processes for designing and implementing Social Safety Net programmes.

        Duration: 4 hours

        Also available in: Français   Español

        Introduction to the Responsible Governance of Tenure

          The course introduces the main concepts and principles of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure. It aims to help people understand the Guidelines and to apply the principles to practical situations in their countries, as well as to raise the general awareness of responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests.
          Duration: 4.5 hours
          Also available in: Français Español

          Linking Population and Housing Censuses with Agricultural Censuses

            The course is based on the Guidelines for Linking Population and Housing Censuses with Agricultural Censuses, prepared jointly by FAO and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and available in the Resources section.

            The aim of this course is to provide practical guidance for implementing a cost-effective census strategy by coordinating the population and housing census with the agricultural census.

            Duration: 8 hours

            Methodologies for Implementing the Right to Food

              This course, entitled “Methodologies for Implementing the Right to Food ”, is part of the "Right to Food Curriculum outline" developed by FAO to support the progressive realization of the human right to food.

              This course describes a series of analytical, educational and normative methodologies that offer guidance and hands-on advice on the practical aspects of the right to adequate food. It covers a wide range of operational issues such as assessment, legislation, advocacy, education, budgeting and monitoring of this human right.

              Duration: 4 hours

              RuralInvest - Preparing Effective Investment Project Proposals

                This e-learning course explores key concepts present in the RuralInvest toolkit, such as the definition of what is an investment; why a participatory approach is important; the critical importance of sustainability and; the need to understand the priorities and capabilities of the beneficiaries.
                Duration: 6 hours
                Also available in: Español

                Social Transfers in the fight against hunger

                  This Reference Document is intended as a resource to support the practical integration of social transfers into programmes addressing hunger in development cooperation and aims to build a better understanding of the potential role of social transfers in addressing food insecurity and, in particular, the logic behind the idea of social transfers within the access-to-food component.


                  Tools and Methods Series Guidelines, Reference Document No 14

                  Version April, 2012


                  Also available in: Français

                  Spatial Planning in the context of the Responsible Governance of Tenure

                    The course introduces spatial planning, identifying its rationale and benefits, its key principles and the main stages in the spatial planning process. It represents a useful reference for all those who want to promote and implement spatial planning in their countries as an instrument to reconcile and harmonize different, often conflicting, public and private interests on land, fisheries and forests.
                    Duration: 2 hours

                    Trade, Food Security and Nutrition

                      The relationship between trade and food security is attracting increased attention on both the trade and development agendas, with trade recognized as one of the means for achieving the SDGs. The linkages between these concepts are highly complex and have been subject to intense debates. While on the one hand, agricultural trade is considered to balance food deficits and surpluses and broaden consumer choice, on the other, it is also implicated in exposing small-scale value chain actors to greater competition, and speeding up a nutrition transition.


                      Duration: 7h