Food security
- Hungry for results: improving the governance of the global food system to address structural hunger
- According to the FAO, the regions with the most undernourished people are Asia and the Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Both regions have significant structural problems that lock people into poverty, limit their access to key assets, keep agricultural productivity low and make it difficult to reduce hunger on any significant scale. These structural factors must be addressed before we are likely to see any dramatic decreases in either regional or global hunger figures. John Thompson, an IDS research fellow, discusses in his blog how we could potentially reform the global food governance system and meet MDG 1 to as great a degree as possible.
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- Incorporating gender issues into plant breeding approaches
- ( Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR , 2012)
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This paper aims to analyse methods and approaches currently used within participatory plant breeding (PPB) with respect to gender issues and to draw out the implications of researchers’ exper...
- Women, food security and agriculture in a global marketplace: A significant shift
- ( R. Mehra;M. Hill Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2008)
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New directions in development assistance and agricultural investments must recognize and support women's involvement in the full agricultural value chain from production to processing to marketing....
- Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition: homestead food production in Bangladesh
- ( L. Iannotti;K. Cunningham;M. Ruel / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2012)
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A critical yet often overlooked component of food security is diet quality. Even households who have access to sufficient amounts of food and calories may still lack essential micronutrients, incre...
- Discrimination and food rights
- ( UN Human Rights Council , 2010)
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This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010. The study c...
- How agricultural interventions can improve the nutritional status of children
- ( E. Masset;L. Haddad;A. Cornelius;J. Isaza-Castro / British Medical Journal , 2012)
- This systematic review's main objective was to assess the effectiveness of agricultural interventions in improving the nutritional status of children indeveloping countries.The review included 23 stud...
- The benefits of increasing women’s access to agricultural resources
- ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2011)
- Women account for a high proportion of farmers in many developing countries yet often have very little access to the resources they need to support their livelihoods, including land, livestock, techno...
- Food security and gender insights
- ( S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS , 2012)
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This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s empowerment. They can focus on women’s cr...
- Will India be compelled to import dairy products in the near future?
- ( V.P. Gandhi;Z. Zhou / AgEcon Search , 2010)
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With a large population and recent growth in consumer income, India’s demand for food has increased. This study examines the demand for livestock products by Indian consumers, and discusses i...
- Agricultural interventions that aim to improve nutritional status of children
- ( E. Masset;L. Haddad;A. Cornelius / Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre , 2011)
- This report is a systematic review of the impact of potential „win-win‟ agricultural interventions that aim to improve children‟s nutritional status by improving the incomes and the diet of the ...
- Is food security achievable in Malawi?
- ( C. Sanley / USA Agency for International Development , 2005)
- This report presents findings and conclusions from a governance and food security assessment of Malawi. The fieldwork was undertaken in January-February 2005 with the purpose of identifying governance...
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