Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- Forever facing famine? Rethinking food insecurity in Africa
- Stephen Devereux; Simon Maxwell / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Why is hunger worsening in Africa while elsewhere food shortages are lessening? Is Africa’s persistent food insecurity primarily the result of bad government or failure at a household level? How could public and private actors wo...
- Aid without accountability? North Korea challenges humanitarian principles
- Jon Bennett / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Can the humanitarian community use food to leverage recalcitrant authoritarian regimes into being more open? North Korea presents an acute dilemma for humanitarians determined to uphold minimum standards of accountability. While the l...
- The sanctions bombshell - rising child mortality in Iraq
- Mohamed Ali; Iqbal Shah / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Until the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq's social and economic development was rapid and impressive. These gains were abruptly halted and reversed by the war and the ensuing economic sanctions. How has this affected the health of Iraqi childr...
- Closing the rural-urban nutrient cycle?
- Pay Drechsel; Olufunke O. Cofie; George Danso / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Fast-growing cities in sub-Saharan Africa challenge rural food production. Consumption- related waste, however, ends up in urban latrines, drains or landfills, transforming cities into vast nutrient sinks. Composting this waste for ag...
- Supporting the poor: sustainable safety nets for the new millennium
- Stephen Devereux / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Policymakers have moved away from offering universal benefits to developing ways of protecting the poor against income fluctuations and livelihood shocks. What have we learned about the design, targeting and impact of social protectio...
- India’s poor: untouched by poverty alleviation programmes?
- Radhika Nayak; N.C. Saxena; John Farrington / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- India currently spends US$5.6 billion a year on a wide range of poverty reduction schemes. Do they reach the poor and achieve their intended purpose? How do administration processes influence programme implementation? What policy init...
- Food aid: how effective is it?
- Edward Clay / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The international organisation of food security is in disarray. How has this happened? New research on food aid by the Overseas Development Institute, ODI, makes clear the seriousness of the issue. Tackling hunger is crucial to the in...
- Participation: rhetoric or reality in Ethiopia?
- Elizabeth Harrison / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Are participatory partnerships a way to keep development effective and equitable? Or are they unrealistic and difficult to achieve? Is the ideal of equal rights for all at risk of becoming a mask for power relations?
- World Bank and IMF agricultural reforms: contributing to famine?
- Max Lawson / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The focus of the UN summit in Johannesburg in September 2002 was ‘people, planet and prosperity’, yet at the same time, Johannesburg is the staging post for millions of tonnes of UN food aid. About 13 million people in south...
- Facing an uncertain future: The Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
- Choudhury R. Abrar / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- During 1991 and 1992, more than 250 000 Rohingya Muslims sought refuge in Bangladesh from persecution by the army in Burma. Since then the bulk of them have been repatriated, but around 21 000 refugees remain in camps under difficult ...
- The UN's Role in Grant-financed Development: Is there a Funding Crisis?
- Overseas Development Institute, 1997
- This Briefing Paper describes the evolution of the UN's work in development, assesses its contribution to global assistance efforts, and explains how its main components have been financed in the past (and how financial support is cha...
- Neglected Species, Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Difficult Areas: How should the Public Sector Respond?
- R. Blench / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- Recent research on neglected crop and animal species suggests that there exists an important gap between the priorities of development and research agencies and the way small farmers, both in Africa and elsewhere in the world, treat s...
- Trade policies and food security in China
- C.F. Bach; W. Martin / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1997
- Recently, two areas of Chinese influence has drawn attention. One is the future Chinese grain imports and the other is the effect of China joining the WTO. This paper describes both problems and attempts to evaluate them using project...
- New technologies and the global race for knowledge
- Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
- The recent great strides in technology present tremendous opportunities for human developmen but achieving that potential depends on how technology is used. What is technology’s impact on globalization and globalization...
- 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
