Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- How does green revolution technology impact on poverty reduction in Bangladesh?
- K. Hallman; D. Lewis; S. Begum / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This study examines the poverty reduction implications of the introduction of three different agricultural technologies by government and NGOs in three rural sites across Bangladesh. The technologies looked at are: new vegetabl...
- Child care programme assists vulnerable urban households in Guatemala
- M. Ruel; B. Brière; K. Hallman; A. Quisumbing; N. Coj / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost...
- Lessons to counter gender-blind drylands management
- Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003
- With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland m...
- Impact of food aid on different household members in Ethiopia
- A.R. Quisumbing / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW). It rejects the unitary model of the household and e...
- Do public transfers crowd out informal insurance arrangements?
- S. Dercon; P. Krishnan / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2002
- This paper investigates public transfers in the form of food aid for farm households in Ethiopia to test for the presence of community risk-sharing arrangements. Findings include: both perfect risk-sharing and au...
- Transnational food corporations benefit from famine and malnutrition in Southern Africa
- R. Patel; A. Delwiche / Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002
- This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa. It argues that famine and malnutrition are the product of poverty, not of food shortage, and that this is the result of the policies of the United...
- Economic reform brings pro-some-of-the-poor growth in Ethiopia
- S. Dercon; P. Krishnan / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2000
- This report summarises the activities and findings of a CSAE study which examined the consequences of the economic reform programme on poverty and survival strategies in Ethiopia since 1989, with an emphasis on the rural economy. ...
- Community participation for the improvement of food aid targeting in India
- D. Bhattacharyya / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper presents an alternative, participatory approach to the identification of food insecure households at the community level. This approach is introduced as a response to the different food assistance schemes currently implemen...
- Is the marginal propensity to consume food greater for in-kind transfers than for cash transfers in Bangladesh?
- C. del Ninno; P.A. Dorosh / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This paper examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets. It uses data from a 1998/99 survey of rural households in Bangladesh to econometrically estimate marginal propensities to consu...
- Making positive links between food and nutrition security and HIV and AIDS impacts
- S. Kadiyala; S. Gillespie / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming. It presents a detailed review of the relevant literature and the findings...
- Forests, famine and war: the key to Cambodia's future
- Global Witness, 1995
- Global Witness' first report, which reveals the architects and beneficiaries of Cambodia's timber trade, including the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, and which shows that these two groups, who at the time were at wa...
- Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)
- Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
- Interactions between wildlife, livestock and people from a livelihoods perspective
- C. Boyd; R. Blench; D. Bourn; L. Drake; P. Stevenson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
- From the perspective of local livelihoods this paper explores the complex interactions between wildlife, livestock and people, and options for integrated wildlife and livestock management in the semi-arid rangelands of eastern Africa....
- Food Aid Targeting in Ethiopia: A Study of Household Food Insecurity and Food Aid Distributions
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- Examines food aid targeting efficiencies and the determinants of food aid distributions in rural Ethiopia during the 1995-96 agricultural year. It is based on survey data from a nationwide, randomly selected sample of 4,166 farm house...
- Meeting Food Aid and Price Stabilization Objectives Through Local Grain Purchase: A Review of the 1996 Experience [in Ethiopia]
- W Amha; J. Stepanek; T.S. Jayne; A Negassa / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
- Aims to identify factors that can improve the ability of future local purchase activities to achieve a range of national food policy objectives. This analysis reviews the design and implementation of 1996 local purchase activities in ...
- The Sahel region; assessing progress twenty-five years after the great drought
- S. Batterbury / Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University, 1998
- Before issues of global warming, ozone depletion or acid rain became important objects of scientific study and international concern, the Sahel region came to represent what Claude Raynaut called "the quintessence of a major environme...
- Time for Change: Food Aid and Development Consultation, October 1998
- United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 1998
- Collection of papers prepared for WFP policy review meeting, looking at effectiveness of food aid programmes and their effects on the poor.
- Multiple Uses of Common Pool Resources in Semi-Arid West Africa: A Survey of Existing Practices and Options for Sustainable Resource Management
- T.O. Williams / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
- Common pool resources such as rangeland, forests, fallow fields and ponds provide an array of social and economic benefits for a wide variety of users in semi-arid west Africa. However, poor definition and enforcement of the instituti...
- Eradicating Famines in Theory and Practice: Thoughts on Early Warning Systems
- M. Glantz / Internet Journal of African Studies, 1999
- Do we already know enough about famine's causes, effects, indicators, and at-risk populations to block its occurrences? Do we really need more sophisticated and detailed information that would be generated by famine vulnerability maps...
- El Niño and Drought Early Warning in Ethiopia
- Wolde-Georgis Tsegay / Internet Journal of African Studies, 1997
- ENSO information could improve drought early warning by providing longer lead times to respond. This could enable farmers to identify suitable seeds and times for planting. This task is complicated, however, because Ethiopian farming ...
- 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
