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On-Campus Resources

FAFS - Guidelines for Graduate Students and Graduate Assistants
FAFS - Graduate Students Manual
FAFS - Petitions and Forms
Food Security Program - Guidelines for Thesis and Project Selection and Registration
Food Security Program - Comprehensive Examination Structure and Student Guidelines
AUB Online Petition and Forms System
AUB Online Careers (job and internship postings)
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Research Resources

Food Security Libguide - library resources in the area of food security.

The below links will direct you to the indicated reports:

Reports by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):

FAO - The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (2021)

FAO NENA - The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (2020) - Authored by Prof. Rami Zurayk with assistance by Abed Al Kareem Yehya

FAO - The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (2020)

FAO - The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (2019)

FAO - The State of Food and Agriculture: Agriculture and Climate change (2019)

FAO - The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 (2015)

FAO - Regional Overview of Food Insecurity: Near East and North Africa (2015)

FAO - The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security (2015)

Reports by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI):

IFPRI - 2021 Global Food Policy Report (2021)

IFPRI - 2020 Global Food Policy Report (2020)

IFPRI - 2019 Global Food Policy Report (2019)

IFPRI - 2018 Global Food Policy Report (2018) - Hardcopy can be found in AUB science library under the call number: S 613.2:T974i
IFPRI - 2017 Global Food Policy Report (2017)

IFPRI - Global Hunger Index (2017)

IFPRI - 2016 Global Food Policy Report (2016)

IFPRI - Global Hunger Index (2016)

IFPRI - 2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report (2015)

IFPRI - Global Nutrition Report (2014)

IFPRI - Beyond the Arab Awakening: Policies and investments for poverty reduction and food security (2012)

Other relevent reports:

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems (2019)
IPCC report Climate Change and Land, Chapter 5: Food Security (2019)

United Nations University - World Risk Report (2016)

Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) - Food Security: Challenges and Prospects (2014)

The Economist - Global Food Security Index (2014)

McKinsey & Company - How the World Could Better Fight Obesity (2014)

Tools

The below links will direct you to the indicated tools:

FAO and iMMAP - Regional Food Security Analysis Network

FAO Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) - Database and data portal (link compatible with Internet Explorer)

Food Security Information Network (FSIN) - Gender and food security resources

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - Tools and guidelines on household food security

IFPRI - Arab Spatial

IFPRI - Food Security Portal: Policy analysis tools

IFPRI and American University of Beirut - Lebanon Spatial and video tutorials on its use

World Health Organization (Nutrition Databases), including global database on BMI, Child Growth, and Malnutrition

Links

The below links will direct you to the indicated webpages:

AUB Faculty of Health Sciences - Food security resources web page

Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) -

Committee on World Food Security (CFS) - Homepage

FAO - Regional Office for Near East and North Africa - Regional Perspectives Webpage

FAO - Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) - Homepage

Food Security Information Network - Homepage

World Food Programme (WFP) - Food Security Analysis

WFP/FAO Food Security Cluster - Lebanon Country Page

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