Livelihoods and food security
Food security is a global challenge. According to the World Bank (2008) the current food crisis is said to risk plunging a further 100 million people into poverty. Livelihoods approaches can prove useful for understanding and addressing the multidimensional nature of food security. More..
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- How can sustainable livelihoods approaches be more successfully applied to future development challenges?
- ( S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS , 2011)
- How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date? This Sustainable Livelihoods Hi...
- Importance of wildlife resources for food and livelihood security in Equatorial Guinea
- ( S. Allebone-Webb / Zoological Society of London , 2009)
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This thesis shows that two rural villages in continental Equatorial Guinea consume, produce and earn significant amounts from wildlife resources, particularly bushmeat. The author notes that throug...
- FAO reporting on global hunger in 2009
- ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
- This is the tenth progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS). It highlights that the food crisis has twinned with the economic crisis increasing the number of hungry people...
- Innovative backyard poultry value chain
- ( M. Dhawan (ed);M. Punjabi (ed);V. Ahuja (ed) / South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme , 2009)
- There is a growing evidence about the role that backyard poultry production can play in sustaining and enhancing poor peoples’ livelihoods. Market oriented backyard poultry is increasingly recog...
- Bird flu and people's livelihoods: how much is lost?
- ( V. Ahuja;M. Dhawan;L. Maarse / South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme , 2009)
- This report outlines the impact of bird flu on poor people’s livelihoods in West Bengal, India. Based on a survey of about 180 rural households raising ‘Kuroilers’ (a dual purpose bi...
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