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The International Development Committee (at 9.30am) is looking at Global Food Security, with evidence from Transport Minister Norman Baker, International Development minister Lynne Featherstone, and experts including DFID's Food and Nutrition Security Team.
BBC: Week ahead
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"African policymakers need to steer urbanisation from its current non-sustainable path towards healthier cities that ensure food and nutrition security, decent work and income, and a clean environment for all their citizens, " says the FAO's Modibo Traore.
BBC: Africa: Feeding the rising urban population
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First, food and nutrition security.
UN: Secretary-General
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Second, Africa, with the world's most uncultivated arable land, has the potential to help end the global food security and nutrition crisis.
CNN: Story highlights
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Focused on the at-risk population of approximately 1.8 million women of child-bearing age and children, this programme is developing a comprehensive approach to food security, child and maternal nutrition, which includes intense awareness-raising through media.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
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Communication is an important advocacy element of the Millennium Development Goals Fund (MDG-F) Programme on Improving Nutrition, Food Safety and Food Security for China's Most Vulnerable Women and Children.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
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The UK government is holding a special nutrition summit in London on 8 June, ahead of the main G8 gathering, which is expected to look at issues such as food security and the need for more African countries to have their own national nutrition plans.
BBC: Child drinks from bowl (file image)