Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- Timeline of events related to the right to food
- FAO Right to Food, 1999
- Chronology of events from 1948 to present, with links to full-texts of declarations, conference papers, etc.
- The right to food in theory and practice
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
- FAO (ed), contributions from different authors from UN, academia and NGO-sector. In this publication, the rights related to food are examined from both the human rights and the operational points of view. Distinguished human rights ex...
- NGOs and the right to adequate food - Hunger and malnutrition: the human rights approach
- M Windfuhr / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
- Chapter from the FAO publication "The right to food in theory and practice" (see separate entry) about the position of NGOs and Civil Society in the debate, containing extracts from a draft "Code of Conduct on the human right to adequ...
- FAO Mandate in the World Food Summit Plan of Action (1996)
- FAO Right to Food, 1999
- Paragraph 61 of the World Food Summit Plan of Action, describes recommendations to governments and Civil Society to develop intruments to implement the right to food for everybody.
- The right to food Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 1999
- Question of the realization in all countries of the economic, social and cultural rights contained in the universal declaration of human rights and in the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, and study of sp...
- The 12 Misconceptions About The Right to Food
- FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 1999
- Brief answers to the following misconceptions that need to be addressed by recognizing economic human rights and using this knowledge to struggle against economic oppression of the poor and future generations: 1. We do not need...
- Solutions outside the Box: can we finally implement the human right to food
- S Maxwell / Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- ODI seminar in the series "A Rights-based Approach to Development: from Theory to Practice", including the paper presented to the UNDP/UNHCHR/Government of Norway Symposium on Human Development and Human Rights in Oslo, 2-3 October 19
- The Asian currency crises: lessons for an early warning system
- F. Jotzo / National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1999
- Is it possible to devise a funtioning early warning system for currency crises, and is there a role for the analysis of indicators beyond economic fundamentals? In light of the Asian crisis, the issue is examined both theoretically an...
- 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
- 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
