The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a comprehensive food security communications toolkit this week. The kit will help food security professionals to better communicate their knowledge.

The kit will offer lessons on the follow:

• Communicating strategically with policy makers – for maximum impact
• Dealing with the media and building good relationships with journalists
• How to prepare a communication strategy
• Exploiting the internet, social media and Web 2.0 technologies to deliver your message and engage in dialogues with global audiences
• Writing policy briefs, early warning bulletins, needs assessment and research reports
• Improving your writing skills and editing your work

Michael Riggs, a blogger on e-agriculture, says the toolkit includes readymade templates complemented by a flexible e-learning course on food security communications.

Here’s the Food Security Communications Toolkit.

Here’s the e-learning course