Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- Interventions on household food security and gender, Uganda
- International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003
- This paper from the International Center for Research on Women provides information on the implementation of a collaborative project to improve household food security in rural Ugandan communities affected by HIV and AIDS. The aim of ...
- Collection of articles on food security in conflicts and crises
- United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2002
- This newsletter brings together a collaboration of papers from the symposium on nutrition in conflict and crisis. The paper also details working group reports, programme news, discussions and publications on these issues. The p...
- New issues in food policy
- S. Maxwell; R. Slater / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This briefing paper looks at new issues emerging in the food policy arena, including the impacts of urbanisation, industrialisation and globalisation. Some of main concerns and challenges briefly addressed include: ...
- Effectiveness of IFPRI's Rural Finance Policies for Food Security programme
- J. Alwang; V. Puhazhendhi / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This study examines the impact of IFPRI's multi-country research project on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor (IRFPP) within four countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Ghana and Malawi). It also examines IRFPP's contributi...
- How can the MDG in hunger be achieved?: issues of food security in Asia
- G. Gill; J. Farrington; E. Anderson; C. Luttrell; T. Conway; N.C. Saxena; R. Slater / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam. It identifies the key issues relating to food s...
- Is subsidised childcare working in Guatemala City?
- Marie T. Ruel; Bénédicte de la Brière; Kelly Hallman / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- As poor urban women come under increasing pressure to travel long distances to find work, what happens to their children? What can be done to improve childcare? Could neighbourhood-based childcare schemes not only mind children while ...
- A solid case for improving waste reuse in Mali and Burkino Faso
- Derek Eaton; Thea Hilhorst / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- What are the links between urban waste management and peri-urban agriculture? How could waste be safely recycled to benefit farmers on the outskirts of cities? What policies are needed to encourage private sector engagement in waste s...
- Widening non-farm employment opportunities in Madhya Pradesh
- Ulrich Kleih; Richa Som; Yogesh Kumar / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Rural non-farm employment (RNFE) has an increasing role to play in areas where populations are rising and natural resources are being depleted. While it is generally agreed that a dynamic agricultural sector is important for the devel...
- Exploring misconceptions about what caused the 2001-3 food emergency in Malawi
- L. Rubey / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
- This brief report examines the assumptions that the 2001-2003 food crisis in Malawi was the result of poor management of grain reserves, corruption and a severe drought. It argues that these often-cited ‘causes’ are partial ...
- Applied policy research can improve the impact of food aid
- L. Haddad / Bioline, 2001
- This paper describes ways in which applied policy research can contribute to improving the food security impact of food aid. It argues that new ways of conducting applied policy research must be combined with new ways of acting upon t...
- Effects of market reform on access to food by low-income households : evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
- This report highlights conclusions from the study which have broader implications for targeting vulnerable groups. There appear to be major opportunities to promote household food security through the use of self-targeting. By further...
- Trends in real food prices in six sub-Saharan African countries
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
- The objectives of this research were to assess the direction and magnitude of food prices since the implementation of food sector policy reforms, to identify the major factors affecting such changes, and to assess the resulting effect...
- Environmental guidelines for small-scale activities in Africa: environmentally sound design for planning and implementing humanitarian and development activities
- W.I. Knausenberger; G.A. Booth; C.S. Bingham; J.J. Gaudet / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
- The guidelines aim to provide PVOs and NGOs, and other recipients of USAID grants, a tool for activity design, implementation and monitoring. The focus is on smaller-scale field activities. While intended primarily for use by experien...
- The link between liberalisation of the Mexican agricultural sector, poverty, and environmental damage
- A. Nadal / Oxfam, 2001
- Examines Mexico’s effort to liberalise and “modernise” its agricultural sector, and in particular its domestic production of corn. Conclusions: liberalisation has failed to achieve the environmenta...
- Are school breakfast programmes an effective intervention?
- S. Cueto; M. Chinen; I. Montes; F. Andrade; M. Staeheli / Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2000
- Evaluation of the educational impact of a school breakfast program implemented in rural schools in the highlands of Peru. Specifically, measurements in weight, height, school enrollment, dropout, attendance, cognitivPreue activities, ...
- World food aid needs: assessment and availabilities
- Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, USDA Economics and Statistics System, 1999
- This full-text report is a study of world food aid needs, defined as amount of grain needed to fill the gap between what a country can produce plus its financial capacity to import commercially, and a targeted consumption level includ...
- Trends in real food prices in six sub-saharan African countries (MSU)
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
- Indigenous knowledge and institutions bibliography (Indiana)
- Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 1999
- Humanitarian advocacy: a solution disaster prevention and recovery
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2001
- This year's World Disasters Report looks at the subject of, and the difficulties involved in, recovery from disasters. The overall picture, particularly for those in the most disaster-prone countries, is far from encouraging. Chapters...
- Relief through development: maize market liberalisation in urban Kenya (MSU)
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
- African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND)
- The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) is a quarterly peer reviewed journal with a global reputation, published in Kenya by the Rural Outreach Programme (ROP) in Nairobi. Their publishing programme covers a wide range of scientific and development disciplines, including agriculture, food, nutrition, environmental management and sustainable developm...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
- Sokoine University of Agriculture
- University departments offering teaching, research and consultancy services.
- Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
- The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of deep concern for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children. CPAG works to produce evidence about the causes and effects of poverty on children and their families. It examines how Government policies affect children and families. CPAG publishes reports, makes submissions and conducts small-scale researc...
- Climate Change Agriculture Food Security (CCAFS)
- The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is a 10-year research initiative launched by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). CCAFS seeks to overcome the threats to agriculture and food security in a changing climate, exploring new ways of helping vulnerable rural co...
- Food Security Research Project (FRSP)
- Zambian food security research network
- Focus on women, World Food Programme (WFP)
- WFP's work on food security and women
- Centre for Social Protection (CSP)
- The Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, supports a network of partners working to mainstream social protection in development policy and encourage social protection systems and instruments that are comprehensive, long-term, sustainable and pro-poor. It produces research on: Conceptual approaches De...
- IRIN PlusNews
- PlusNews is the global online HIV and AIDS news service of the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). It is the most comprehensive source of original reporting on the pandemic, providing a professionally produced, one-stop information service for cutting-edge, but jargon-free news and analysis on HIV and AIDS in four languages - English, French, Portuguese a...
- Food crisis and the global land grab
- News and commentary on land grabbing
