Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- USAID HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs
- US Agency for International Development, 2002
- This paper states the areas of commitment, and reports on the work of USAID in treating and caring for patients with HIV/AIDS. The paper offers examples of USAID work in the following areas: antiretroviral therap...
- Household survival strategies used to inform disaster preparedness interventions in Ethopia
- S. Lautze; Y. Aklilu; A. Raven-Roberts; H. Young; G. Kebede; J. Leaning / US Agency for International Development, 2003
- This paper aims to learn from the household survival strategies in Ethiopia that have evolved to manage diverse disaster hazards with a view that such strategies can inform more effective disaster preparedness, relief, recovery and pr...
- Milk and meat supplements can improve vitamin B12 status in Kenyan school children
- E.D. Reid; C.G. Neumann; J.H. Siekmann; N.O. Bwibo; S.P. Murphy; L.H. Allen / Global Livestock CRSP, 2002
- This paper reports on a two year controlled intervention with animal source foods, initiated in Embu, Kenya, to improve the micronutrient status of 6-9 year old rural Kenyan school children and test if animal source foods improve grow...
- Research on the frontline: increasing the evidence base for humanitarian aid
- N. Banatvala; A. Zwi / British Medical Journal, 2000
- During an emergency response, there is a tension between saving lives in the short term and promoting longer-lasting health systems development. An article in the British Medical Journal makes the case for expanding the evidence base ...
- Survey of poverty and food security in Iraq
- T El-Guindi; H Al Mahdy; J. McHarris / United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2003
- The paper describes an analysis of chronic poverty for the Center/South region of Iraq. It finds that one in five Iraqis or 4.6 million people suffer from chronic poverty. WFP had estimated before the war that 60% of the Iraqi ...
- Seeds for survival - supplying seeds in an emergency
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Natural disasters and war wreak havoc on the economies of developing countries. Since 1980, for example, all ten countries in the Greater Horn of Africa have experienced drought or armed conflict. In recent years, people have asked: w...
- Red alert! Anaemia is widespread among women in Andhra Pradesh
- Margaret Bentley; Paula Griffiths / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- South Asia has some of the highest rates of anaemia in the world, mirroring overall levels of malnutrition. Researchers from the University of North Carolina, USA, studied social and economic factors linked to anaemia in Andhra Prades...
- Thin end of the wedge – under and over- nutrition in Indian women
- Paula Griffiths; Margaret Bentley / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Nutrition research in India focuses on under- nutrition. However, rates of obesity are rising, along with chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes. Researchers from the Carolina Population Centre, USA, looked at factors li...
- Trouble in the air for food production as urban pollution hits rural development
- Fiona Marshall; Mike Ashmore / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Concern over air pollution has traditionally been focused on urban situations. Fresh evidence from a study by an Imperial College research team, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and research partners ...
- Climbing out of chronic poverty: Success in Bangladesh
- Imran Matin; David Hulme / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- As they do not own small income-generating businesses, the chronically poor are excluded from most microfinance programmes. However, services that do target the chronically poor, such as food subsidies, do not offer them any long-term...
- Famine in North Korea: causes and cures
- M. Noland; S. Robinson; T Wang / Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999
- Paper starts from incomplete data ridden with gross measurement errors to construct the underlying data base for a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) of the North Korean economy using cross-entropy estimation techniques. This ...
- Indigenous knowledge and institutions bibliography (Indiana)
- Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 1999
- Intellectual property rights and globalization: implications for developing countries
- C. Juma / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999
- Reviews the implications of the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). It focuses on the national implemention of the TRIPS agreement, technological development, plant...
- Manual for policy and implementation
- J. Del Rosso / School Health, 1999
- Designed to assist those engaged in the process of creating new School Feeding Programmes (SFPs) or seeking to improve the effectiveness of on-going ones. It is based on a review of the SFP research and program literature from the las...
- Gender issues and their broad economic and social implications in developing and transitional countries
- Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies. ...
- Signposts To Sui Generis Rights: Resource materials from the international seminar on sui generis rights
- GRAIN, 1997
- TRIPS requires developing countries to enact intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation for plant varieties by the year 2000, while least-developed countries have until 2005. This can be in the form of classic industrial patent sy...
- Biopiracy, TRIPS and the Patenting of Asia's Rice Bowl: A collective NGO situationer on IPRs on rice
- GRAIN, 1998
- Nearly all Asian countries are committed to the WTO TRIPs treaty. This means that by the year 2000, Asian governments have to make intellectual property titles on seeds completely legal. This will favor transnational corporations who ...
- Staking Their Claims: Land Disputes in Southern Mozambique
- J. McGregor / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997
- Conflicting interests in land and resource use emerged in postwar Mozambique, giving rise to multiple layers of dispute. This article explores the disputes occurring between 1992 and 1995 in two districts which are notable for the sev...
- Grain Market Research Project, Ethiopia
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- Series of full text papers on grain marketing and food security in Ethiopia. Papers include: Improving information and Performance in Grain Marketing. Tschirley D., Diskin P., Molla D. and Clay D. (September 1995). ...
- Can Robust Pro-Female Policies be Identified When the True Model of the Household is Unknown?
- J. Mackinnon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
- This paper seeks to identify parameter changes which are robust in the sense that they benefit women relative to men in a wide range of household models. The models considered are unitary, Nash- bargaining and non-cooperative with and...
- 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
