The Comprehensive Framework for Action

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HLTF progress reports

• HLTF- Progress report April 2008-October 2009 (November 2009)
• The UN system response to the world food security crisis (as of September 2008)

Fact sheets

• Madrid meeting 26-27 January to chart action on continuing global food crisis
• Global economic turmoilintensifies the food crisis. Immediate action is required to secure adequate long-term global food supply.
• Comprehensive Framework for Action Summary
• List of Participants

Other key documents from organizations and institutions of the HLTF

Policy

• Implications of higher global food prices for Poverty in Low-Income Countries (World Bank, 2008)
• Increasing Food Prices and Food Security: Diagnostic Issues and Policy Options, UNDP , November 2008.
• Rising food prices and their implications for employment, decent work and poverty reduction (ILO : Technical Information Note 2008)
• Rising food prices and their implications for employment, decent work and poverty reduction(ILO : draft for discussion 2009)
• A Preliminary Anatomy of the Unfolding Global Food Crisis (UNDP , 2008 by P. Conceição and R.Mendoza)
• Don’t forget the food crisis: new policy directions needed (policy brief, DESA , 2008)
• The future of World Food Security (IFAD , factsheet 2009)
• Claiming the Millennium Development Goals: A human rights approach (OHCHR , 2008)
• The Millennium Development Goals Report, (UN , 2008 and UN 2009).
• Analysis of the world food crisis by the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Mr De Schutter (OHCHR , background note 2008)
• Rising Agricultural Prices: consequences and responses (OECD , Policy brief 2008)
• Policy Dialogue on High Food Prices –Outlook and donors mid-term response (OECD , 2009)
• The Environmental Food Crisis (UNEP , 2009)
• The 2008 Food Price Crisis: Rethinking Food Security Policies (UNCTAD , discussion paper 2009)
• Responding  to the food crisis: synthesis of medium-term measures proposed in inter-agency assessments (FAO , WFP , 2009)
• Country responses to the food crisis: nature and preliminary implications of the measures pursued (FAO , 2008)
• The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 - Economic crisis: impacts and lessons learnt (FAO , 2009)
• The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2008 –High food prices and food security (FAO , 2008)
• Double Jeopardy: Responding to High Food and Fuel Prices (World Bank , 2008)

Emergency/food assistance/safety nets

• “Global Food Trends” (OCHA , web resource)
• “Food Crisis: news focus” (UN/DPI , Web resource)
• UN News by topic: Poverty, Health, Food Security (UN/DPI, web resource)
• UNHCR's Strategic Plan for Nutrition and Food Security (UNHCR , 2008)
• Coping with high prices and the financial crisis (WFP , factsheet, 2009)
• WFP’s response to high food prices (May 2008, WFP)
• Mitigating the Social Impacts of Crisis in Asia- Revised Practical Policy Recommendations for Lao PDR and for Cambodia (ILO Asia- Pacific Working Paper Series -2009)

Nutrition/Health

• Landscape Analysis of countries' readiness to accelerate action in nutrition. Geneva, Switzerland, WHO , 2009.
• Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition: A survival and development priority, UNICEF, November 2009.
• Landscape Analysis of countries' readiness to accelerate action in nutrition (UN/SCN , 2009)
• The impact of the increase in food prices on child poverty and the policy response in Mali
• Millet prices, public policy and child malnutrition: the case of Niger in 2005 (UNICEF , 2008)
• Food Prices Increases/Nutrition Security: Action for Children (UNICEF , Technical Note 2008)

Small farmers/Agriculture

• Food prices: Smallholders can be part of the solution (IFAD , Factsheet 2008)
• Growing demand on agriculture and rising prices of commodities (IFAD , 2008)
• A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development (DESA, 2009)
• Making Globalization Work for the Least Developed Countries (UNOHRLLS, 2008)
• Improving food security in Arab countries (World Bank, IFAD, FAO , 2009)
• “Agricultural Outlook 2009-2018” (OECD-FAO , highlights 2009)
• The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2009: High food prices and the food crisis – experiences and lessons learned (FAO , 2009)
• The State of Food and Agriculture –Biofuels: prospects, risks and opportunities (FAO , 2008)
• Assessing biofuels (UNEP , 2009)
• Land grab or development opportunity? - Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa (FAO, IFAD, IIED , 2009)
• Green Fuels for Development (OECD , SWAC brief, 2008)
• Making Sustainable Biofuels Work for Smallholder Farmers and Rural Households (FAO)
• The Market and Food Security Implications of the Development of Biofuel Production. Committee on Commodity Problems, Sixty-Seventh Session, Rome, 20–22 April 2009 (FAO)