Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- Food Security and Gender Fact Sheet
- USA Agency for International Development, 2009
- This two-page brief summarises the key gender and food security issues common to most developing regions. It opens by stating that women are responsible for half of the world’s food production, and in most developing countries t...
- Women, food security and agriculture in a global market place
- R. Mehra; M. Hill Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2008
- This paper reviews current thinking and practice on increasing agricultural productivity for women farmers within commercial agriculture. It maps out opportunities and barriers for women and concludes by providing recommendations for ...
- Foresight Project on Global Food and Farming Futures: Science review SR: 48: Gender in the food system
- The Government Office for Science, 2011
- This report highlights the need for institutional changes that would benefit women within food systems globally, as consumers, producers, entrepreneurs and workers. The report identifies three emergent trends to be addressed in ...
- Gender, Food Security and AIDS in Internally Displaced People's Camps in Uganda: implications for HIV Responsive Policy and Programming
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
- This two-page brief provides an overview of research conducted in 2007-08 into the interactions between gender relations, HIV and AIDS and food security in war-affected communities in Northern Uganda. Firstly it reviews the policy and...
- Engendering agricultural research
- Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, 2010
- This paper makes a case for increased gender equity throughout agricultural research and development systems, in order to address gender norms affecting how men and women engage with and are recognised within these systems. For exampl...
- Gender-disaggregated data for agriculture and rural development: guide for facilitators
- 2003
- Gender-Disaggregated Data provides a vital perspective for understanding people's livelihoods and for improving food security. This guide was produced as a result of demands on the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nati...
- Policy brief addressing under-nutrition in maternal and child health care
- United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2010
- This policy brief promotes the value of nutrition interventions, especially those focused on the “window of opportunity” from pregnancy to two years old, in reducing death, disease and avoiding irreversible long-term healt...
- Outlining the gender dimensions of agriculture and rural development
- 2009
- Mainstreaming gender equity has become a strategic objective of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). To achieve FAO’s vision of a world free of hunger and malnutrition, its new strategic framework p...
- Exploring the nutritional gender gap
- V. Molini; M. Nubé / United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2007
- Over the past 20 years Vietnam has experienced impressive economic growth which has been accompanied by increased food availability and consumption. In almost all Vietnamese regions, evidence shows improvements in the household calori...
- Examining long-term impacts on food-production and food security for women farmers
- N. Tandon; I. Smyth (ed); C. Sweetman (ed) / Oxfam, 2010
- Trade liberalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use; the cost of land and agricultural assets affect food prices; and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and who put food on the table for...
- Policy brief addressing under-nutrition in maternal and child health care
- United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2010
- This policy brief promotes the value of nutrition interventions, especially those focused on the “window of opportunity” from pregnancy to two years old, in reducing death, disease and avoiding irreversible long-term healt...
- Outlining the gender dimensions of agriculture and rural development
- 2009
- Mainstreaming gender equity has become a strategic objective of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). To achieve FAO’s vision of a world free of hunger and malnutrition, its new strategic framework p...
- Exploring the nutritional gender gap
- V. Molini; M. Nubé / United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2007
- Over the past 20 years Vietnam has experienced impressive economic growth which has been accompanied by increased food availability and consumption. In almost all Vietnamese regions, evidence shows improvements in the household calori...
- Examining long-term impacts on food-production and food security for women farmers
- N. Tandon; I. Smyth (ed); C. Sweetman (ed) / Oxfam, 2010
- Trade liberalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use; the cost of land and agricultural assets affect food prices; and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and who put food on the table for...
- Helping women respond to the global food crisis
- Quisumbing A 2008
- The 2007-2008 food price crisis received widespread attention but the gender dimensions of the crisis were largely overlooked. Yet ongoing research on gender and intra-household resource allocation continues to suggest not only that m...
- Using gender research in development: food security in practice
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
- Gender equality is a basic human right, and closing the gender gap is key to achieving many development objectives. Yet many practitioners and advocates concerned with achieving gender equality are often constrained by the lack of inf...
- Gender equality and women's empowerment within agricultural development
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1997
- These short practice notes provide guidance on how to address gender equality and women's empowerment within agricultural development co-operation. Rural women's work in agriculture is crucial to the provision of household food securi...
- Exploring how status affects the food security of women in Bangladesh
- M.A. Razzaque; M.M.K. Toufique / United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2007
- This paper explores the relationship between women's status within the household (her power to bargain) and food security, considering individuals food intake, physical differences, activities performed, budget and asset control. It d...
- Localised solutions are essential in global land markets
- T.W. Hertel / AgEcon Search, 2010
- The number of people which the world must feed is expected to increase by 50% during the first half of this century, but will the world’s agricultural resource base be up to the task of meeting the diverse demands being placed o...
- How can sustainable livelihoods approaches be more successfully applied to future development challenges?
- S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
- How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date? This Sustainable Livelihoods Highlights Brief looks at a series o...
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- Research centre concentrating on the crop improvement and farming systems for sorghum, millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut: acts as a world repository for the genetic resources of these crops. Databases include: (a) SATRCIS: bibliographical database on semi-arid tropical crops (b) Database on groundnut alfatoxin problems (available on diskette) (c) Library
- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
- Research centre focusing on the improvement of crops and farming systems relating to barley, lentils and faba bean. On a regional basis for West Asia and North Africa it has a responsibility for the improvement of wheat, chickpea, forage, pasture and small ruminants. Databases include: (a) ICARDA Agricultural Database (ICAD): bibliographical records from ICARDA, Agricola and CABI
- Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
- Research centre focusing on the improvement of wheat, maize and triticale, and their associated farming systems. Databases include: (a) Maize Germplasm Database: information on over 10,000 maize cultivars, from 1940. (b) WWW site: information on CIMMYT and its research programme.
- National Agricultural Library, USA (NAL)
- Major US governmental agricultural library on issues related to agriculture and nutrition
- Wageningen Library
- Gateway to agricultural science information in the Netherlands
- Permaculture-MG
- Discussion list on permanent agriculture: the design of ecological human habitats and sustainable food production systems
- PenPages
- Information from Pennsylvania State University's College of Agricultural Sciences. Full text information on agricultural sciences, human nutrition, ageing, family, community development and consumer issues. USA focus.
- Natural Resources Institute, UK (NRI)
- Formerly a UK governmental agency, an institute of the University of Greenwich since 1996. Provider of research, consultancy and training services in the management of renewable natural resources. Databases include: (a) WWW server with basic information on the organisation, its areas of expertise, publications catalogue, information on international collaborative programmes (b) Library catalo...
- Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (ATSAF E.V.)
- ATSAF is a network of scientists from German Federal research institutes, universities and other research institutes working in the field of tropical and subtropical agricultural research. Activities include support for the German Alliance for International Agricultural Research (AIDA) and for German participation in European Consortium on Agricultural Research in the Tropics (ECART) and the Euro...
- Faostat, FAO
- Statistical database on agriculture and forest products produced by FAO
