Hidayati, R. 2015. Food Security And Halal Food Assurance. Jurnal Pusdiklat Perdagangan Vol. 1 No. 1 Desember 2015 (31-42)

The concept of Food Security has been introduced by the World Food Summit since 1996. In this paper, food security will be discussed in terms of halal food assurance. The objective of this paper is to analyze the beef value chain and identify which part of the chain the halal certification could be integrated. This study is conducted by qualitative analysis and focus group discussions based on the data available. The result shows that Beef consumption in Indonesia can be distinguished into two big market, the retail market and meat processor market. Retail beef market constitutes about 40% of the product and the rest (60%) goes to the meat processor. An analysis of the beef market value chain has shown that the inclusion of halal food certification could be obliged in the stage of slaughtering and meatball production.Keywords : beef, halal, value chain

Urban agriculture: a timely game changer for urban residents in Nigeria.

This paper leverages on the yet-unanswered calls of the 1996 World Food Summit as well as the 2nd Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations both of which support zero hunger and safe, nutritious and sufficient food. Nigeria and Africa on the whole actively engage in agriculture but this is more restricted to the rural area. This piece provides a view of the status of urban agriculture presented in both exploratory and descriptive terms thus contributing to the several academic fields in urban planning and research discourse. The farmers, government and urban managers are among key stakeholders that can step up at both local and regional scales especially in terms of governance, estate planning and urban dynamics. Although with a global outlook and dimension, case study therein presents current practices and quantitative descriptions based on surveys from metropolitan city of Lagos, Nigeria thus providing an argumentative reflection for the promotion of a wide range of urban agriculture practices. This is hoped to nourish the discussion on urban wellbeing and development.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The core objective of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since its founding in 1945 has been to eradicate hunger. International policy debates and the work of the Organization focused until the 1980s on increasing agricultural production; however, a shift has occurred in recent years in the understanding of FAO’s mandate. The modest but growing reference to the right to food has become an essential part of this new thinking, which crystallized at the 1996 World Food Summit and in the adoption of the 2004 Right to Food Guidelines. Although the visibility of the right to food has gradually increased in the Organization’s work, this chapter—while assessing the past and current state of mainstreaming the right to food within FAO—argues that right to food mainstreaming within FAO is far from unidirectional and has more recently seen a period of retrenchment.

Slower growth may mar Latin America hunger advances

Subject Successes in hunger reduction in Latin America. Significance Although a number of regions have achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the percentage of their population suffering from hunger by 2015, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the first region also to achieve the more ambitious World Food Summit target of halving their absolute number. Impacts While ongoing efforts will be required to reduce hunger, obesity has also become an important public health problem in many LAC countries. A recent increase in extreme poverty in LAC suggests that reduction of hunger may slow. As hunger drops and concentrates in pockets, such as indigenous communities, ever more closely targeted policies will be required.