Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- Will irrigation farming provide food security in Malawi?
- B. Chinsinga / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2006
- Until the introduction of the fertiliser subsidy programme in the 2005/2006 growing season, food insecurity was for close to two consecutive decades a characteristic feature of a great bulk of Malawians both in urban and rural areas. ...
- Will privatizing agricultural marketing help Malawi?
- E. Chirwa; P. Mvula; J. Kadzandira / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2005
- Since 1981 Malawi has implemented several economic policy reforms under the structural adjustment programmes. Most of the policies targeted the agricultural sector including deregulation of agricultural marketing activities, removal o...
- An investigation of variations in the technical efficiency of food production in Malawi
- E. Chirwa / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2007
- Central to economic activities in Malawi, the agricultural sector accounts for 35 per cent of real gross product. It generates more than 90 per cent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and provides paid and self-employmen...
- A study of the wage rate paid to participants of PWPs in relation to the Government of Malawi's social protection objectives
- E.W. Chirwa; A. Mc cord; P. Mvula 2004
- The Malawi Government, with assistance from the Department for International Development (DfID) of the Government of the United Kingdom, is implementing an Inception Phase for the National Safety Nets Programme (NSNP). The NSNP consti...
- This study shows that access to land via agricultural production is one of the factors that can translate growth to poverty reduction in Malawi.
- E.W. Chirwa / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2004
- Malawi has pursued an agricultural-led development strategy since its independence in 1964. This agricultural-led development strategy was based on the promotion of a dual agricultural system comprising estate (large-scale) production...
- An analysis of seeds and subsidised farm inputs in Malawi
- B. Chisinga / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010
- The configuration of maize politics in Malawi has created a strong actor network, which include major donor aid agencies, which favours international commercial players and their genetic material in the seed sector over local producer...
- Tips for integrating gender into USAID agricultural sector solicitations
- US Agency for International Development, 2010
- Women play a major role in agricultural activities in many developing countries, producing 60-80 percent of food. Although this contribution is crucial to food security and economic growth women continue to have limited access t...
- The nutrition transition: a gender perspective with reference to Brazil
- Frances Hansford / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- 'Nutritional Transition' is a term used to describe the growing trend of obesity alongside under-nutrition amongst low-income populations in 'middle income' developing countries. This article draws on research undertaken in the state ...
- Hunger Envoy Report: report to the Government of Ireland
- Irish Aid, 2010
- Hunger is now a cornerstone issue of Ireland's foreign policy and a priority of their overseas development programme, with 20 percent of Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding committed until 2012. The report provides an overvi...
- Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty. Status, trends and gaps
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
- Around the world rural women play crucial roles as farmers, labourers and small-scale entrepreneurs yet there is little debate about their importance to rural economic growth and poverty reduction. This substantial report captures the...
- The nutrition transition: a gender perspective with reference to Brazil
- Frances Hansford / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- 'Nutritional Transition' is a term used to describe the growing trend of obesity alongside under-nutrition amongst low-income populations in 'middle income' developing countries. This article draws on research undertaken in the state ...
- Hunger Envoy Report: report to the Government of Ireland
- Irish Aid, 2010
- Hunger is now a cornerstone issue of Ireland's foreign policy and a priority of their overseas development programme, with 20 percent of Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding committed until 2012. The report provides an overvi...
- Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty. Status, trends and gaps
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
- Around the world rural women play crucial roles as farmers, labourers and small-scale entrepreneurs yet there is little debate about their importance to rural economic growth and poverty reduction. This substantial report captures the...
- Challenging gender inequality in farmers' organisations in Nicaragua
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- Food insecurity and malnutrition are chronic in Nicaragua yet rural women's food growing activities are often overlooked. Efforts made by the National Federation of Cooperatives (FENACOOP), a farmers' organisation in rural Nicar...
- Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- The development of high-yielding maize varieties has been a national strategy used in Mexico to address food insecurity. However the continued cultivation of diverse local maize varieties is essential to the improvement of high-...
- Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition - exploring the links with women in Zambia
- Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article examines women's agricultural livelihoods, food security and nutrition in five villages across three districts in the Western Province, Zambia in 2009. The aim of the research commissioned by Concern Worldwide (UK) was to...
- Gender inequality, mothers' health, and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India
- Suniti Neogy / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article features the project Inner Spaces Outer Faces Imitative (ISOFI) which aims to improve maternal and new born health outcomes in rural Uttar Pradesh, primarily by challenging gender norms which prevent equal distribution of...
- Nutrition and Food Security Impacts of Agricultural projects: a review of experience
- US Agency for International Development, 2011
- Agricultural projects are often justified on the basis that they improve household food security and nutrition yet the effects are rarely measured. This short review summarises the findings of the few studies over the past 30 years, w...
- Gender: A Key Dimension Linking Agricultural Programs to Improved Nutrition and Health
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
- This four-page brief highlights the need for a gender equitable approach to standard agricultural development strategies in order to in improve the livelihoods and well-being of rural poor. Evidence shows that increasing women's...
- Supporting women producers to respond to the challenges of food insecurity
- FAO, WOCAN and Huairou Commission, 2010
- What is the impact of food insecurity on women producers? The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the Women Organization for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) partnered with the Huariou Commission ...
- 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
