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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- Outlining threats to water security by climate change in arid and semi-arid regions, and recommendations for adaptive strategies
- 2009
- This perspective document, part of the 16-paper series on water and climate change adaptation, focuses on the impacts and adaptive strategies in arid and semi-arid regions. The series reflect the cent...
- Analysing the adaptive capacity of climate change interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique
- A. Ospina;R. Heeks / Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
- A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenge...
- 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
- 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...
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