Threshing in Northern Ethiopia
Source: BLE
Global Food Security
Supplying a steadily growing world population with safe and healthy food is one of the critical challenges of our time. Increasing shocks and crises reveal weaknesses in existing food systems around the world. In particular, the countries of the Global South are increasingly confronted with all three forms of deficient nutrition - over-, under- and malnutrition - which put a strain on the health and economic performance of these countries, making socio-ecological and economically sustainable development more difficult.
At the same time, climate change, the progressive scarcity of natural resources, the destruction of habitats and changes in dietary habits pose additional challenges to global nutrition. To sustainably improve food and nutrition security worldwide, transforming food systems, expanding competencies and structures and establishing long-term partnerships are of special importance.
In this context and on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the BLE as project-managing agency is committed to improving global food security and nutrition through:
International research cooperation for global food security:
- International research cooperation
- Bilateral research cooperation
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- Management of the BMEL Bilateral Trust Fund with the FAO and
- Placement of Associate Professional Officers (APO) at the FAO
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- International Leadership Seminar for Rural Youth (ISFL) and
- International Trainee Exchange
Information sharing and knowledge transfer
- BMEL "Research Information System on Agriculture and Food – FISA"
BLE Project Databank for the BMEL funded international projects
- Access is via the "extended search function" (erweiterte Suche)
- Select "International Research Cooperation" (Internationale Forschungskooperationen" from the "Funding programmes" (Förderprogramme).
