Food security
- Biodiversity key to food security in a changing climate
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Climate change will profoundly affect agriculture and food security worldwide and will particularly impact smallholder farmers. This document argues that the most effective strategy to adapt agriculture to climate change is to increase biodiversity. It finds that a mix of different crops and varieties in one field is a proven way to increase resilience to erratic weather changes, while modern breeding technologies can help reduce the probability of pests and diseases. These biodiverse methods are promoted as alternatives to genetically engineered (GE) plants, which the authors argue have no proven capacity to increase food security in a changing climate.
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- Developing value chains for neglected and underutilised species
- ( M. Will / Biodiversity , 2008)
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Use of neglected and underutilised species (NUS) can play an important role in improving food security, conserving biodiversity and generating income and employment. Value chain development (VCD) c...
Addressing the underlying causes of the food crisis: pointers for the G8
- ( Greenpeace International , 2008)
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Millions of people around the world are suffering food shortages, unaffordable food prices and hunger, primarily due to industrial farming, bad harvests related to climate change, unjust terms of t...
- Biodiversity is the key to global food security in a changing climate
- ( J. Cotter;R. Tirado / Reliefweb , 2008)
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Climate change will profoundly affect agriculture and food security worldwide and will particularly impact smallholder farmers in poor countries. Based on a short review of recent scientific l...
- Cereal offenders: how the G8 has contributed to the global food crisis, and what they can do to stop it
- ( ActionAid International , 2008)
- Three years after the G8 pledged to ‘make poverty history’, the current global food crisis has left close to a quarter of the world’s population lacking basic food security. In this ...
- Focus on... A green revolution for Africa
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- Forty years after the Asian Green Revolution , the spotlight has now turned on African agriculture. Increasing attention is being paid to the need for greater investment in African agriculture and key...
- Another inconvenient truth
- ( R. Bailey / Oxfam , 2008)
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Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis. However, this Oxfam Briefing Paper argues that they are not be a solution to either, and...
- The 2008 Farm Bill and the Doha Agenda
- ( S. Murphy;S. Suppan / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy , 2008)
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This article reviews the US Farm Bill, also known as the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 and asks how the bill might work in relation to the 19th of May draft of the proposed Doha Agreeme...
- Fertiliser subsidies and sustainable agricultural growth in Africa: current issues and empirical evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya
- ( I. Minde;T., S. Jayne;J. Ariga / Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University , 2008)
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The role of input subsidies in stimulating growth and addressing food security and poverty alleviation objectives has re-emerged as an important debate in agricultural policy. Sharp increases...
- Getting out of the food crisis
- ( GRAIN , 2008)
- The current food crisis is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. In this edition of GRAIN's Seedling magazine, a collection of articles highlig...
- Food security situation in Northern Ghana: coping strategies and related constraints
- ( W. Quaye / African Association of Agricultural Economists , 2008)
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This paper looks at the food security situation in three regions of Northern Ghana and examines how farmer households cope during food insecure periods.
The author finds that productivi...
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