Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- Food security in southern Africa: the role of regional trading, early warning systems and migration
- S. Wiggins / Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003
- This short brief presents food security policy issues for southern Africa that arise at the regional, or supra-national, level. Three particular aspects are examined as being of particular importance for food security: ...
- Food security in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia
- G. Mudimu; M.M. Mphale; E.G. Rwambali; D. Cammack; O. Chulu; S. Khaila; D. Ng'ong'ola; K. Selvester; M.A. Castro; T. Kalinda; F. Maimbo; M. Mushimba / Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003
- The purpose of these five papers is to assess the current priority food security concerns in the selected countries: Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. They are grouped around four organising themes: ...
- Food vulnerability concepts and policies for southern Africa
- F. Ellis / Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2002
- This paper reviews food security vulnerability concepts and relates these to proximate as well as long run factors implicated in the food security crisis in southern Africa. Findings include: some princ...
- Why the UK government should end its support for an investment agreement at the WTO Ministerial Conference
- ActionAid International, 2003
- This paper presents Actionaids response to the issues surroundings the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be held in September 2003. ActionAid is concerned that an investment agreement negot...
- Why was southern Africa more vulnerable to the food production shock of 2002 than to the more severe shock of 1992?
- S. Devereux / Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003
- This paper asks: What social protection policies and institutions are needed to achieve the food security goal of ensuring adequate and appropriate food at affordable prices to all southern Africans at all times? The report def...
- HIV and AIDS, and food insecurity in Africa: the case of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe
- SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2003
- This paper, published by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Development Unit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) examines the contribution of HIV and AIDS to the problems faced by rural households. It focuses...
- Improving child nutrition in vulnerable urban households in Guatamala
- M.T. Ruel; B. Brière (de la); 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...
- Livelihood support via cash injections is the answer to Ethiopia's poverty crisis
- C. Robinson / Christian Aid, 2003
- This report assesses the reasons behind Ethiopia’s poverty and ways in which governments and donors can overcome it. Reasons for Ethiopia’s vulnerability to drought, acute malnutrition and starvation include: ...
- GM risks and benefits to developing countries
- S. Thomas; D. Burke; M. Gale; M. Lipton; A. Weale / Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK, 2003
- This discussion paper is a follow-up to the 1999 Report, Genetically modified crops: the ethical and social issues. Contributed as part of the UK public consultation on GM it aims to assess the potential risks and benefits associated ...
- How Africa can get a share of the biotechnology spoils
- P. Kameri-Mbote / International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002
- This paper asks how biotechnology can affect food security in Africa. It advices caution in either promoting or opposing biotechnology for its own sake. The paper argues that: no technology by and of itself has i...
- Food security and nutrition: the role of forests
- T. Sunderland / Center for International Forestry Research, 2013
- With a growing global population, much of the current discourse on food security is focussed on increasing agricultural production. However, studies suggest that food insecurity is not caused by lack of food production, but by inadequ...
- Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future
- Oxfam, 2013
- In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid age...
- Evaluation of Norway’s Bilateral Agricultural Support to Food Security
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013
- The purpose of this evaluation was “to assess to what extent Norwegian funds for agriculture have contributed to food security, with a view to get recommendations for future support”. The period under evaluation was 2005-201...
- Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies
- HelpAge International, 2013
- In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributio...
- Inequality watch
- B. Thoresen / Norwegian People's Aid, 2012
- This report is a contribution to the development policy debate. It shows that it is a too narrow approach to limit the targets of development policy to growth or to lifting a population above an artificial poverty line. A clear priori...
- Links between Tenure Security and Food Security: Evidence from Ethiopia
- H. Ghebru / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
- The study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contribu...
- Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition
- S. Wiggins; S. Keats / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?" Potentially, smallholder agricultur...
- The Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2012)
- D. Te Lintelo; L. Haddad; R. Lakshman / Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index, 2013
- The 2012 HANCI report finds that low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are fa...
- Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India
- V. Kumar / Young Lives, 2012
- Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity...
- Urban poverty, food security and climate change
- C. Tacoli / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013
- This paper argues that the high and volatile food prices that triggered a renewed interest in food security since the 2008–09 crisis are expected to continue due to the impacts of climate change. It notes that current policy is f...
- 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
