Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- 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 ...
- Food price hikes, food security, and gender equality: assessing the roles and vulnerability of women in households of Bangladesh and Ethiopia
- Dr Zenebe Bashaw Uraguchi / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article, based on research into the effects of the sudden rise in food prices from 2007 – 2008, shows how women responded to food insecurity in farming households in areas of Bangladesh and Ethiopia. In 2008 these two count...
- Achieving Nutritional Impact and Food Security through Agriculture
- US Agency for International Development, 2011
- Ensuring that agricultural projects have a positive effect on local people's food security and nutritional well being is essential. This four-page fact sheet presents key issues that intersect between agriculture, food security and nu...
- HIV/AIDS versus food security in Malawi
- N. Ngwira; S. Bota; M. Loevinsohn 2001
- This paper intends to provide input to a 'Think Tank' involving scientists, policy makers and development workers from key organisations. Think Tank participants refined priorities for Malawi's participation in a multi-country, action...
- Food price hikes, food security, and gender equality: assessing the roles and vulnerability of women in households of Bangladesh and Ethiopia
- Dr Zenebe Bashaw Uraguchi / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This article, based on research into the effects of the sudden rise in food prices from 2007 – 2008, shows how women responded to food insecurity in farming households in areas of Bangladesh and Ethiopia. In 2008 these two count...
- Achieving Nutritional Impact and Food Security through Agriculture
- US Agency for International Development, 2011
- Ensuring that agricultural projects have a positive effect on local people's food security and nutritional well being is essential. This four-page fact sheet presents key issues that intersect between agriculture, food security and nu...
- HIV/AIDS versus food security in Malawi
- N. Ngwira; S. Bota; M. Loevinsohn 2001
- This paper intends to provide input to a 'Think Tank' involving scientists, policy makers and development workers from key organisations. Think Tank participants refined priorities for Malawi's participation in a multi-country, action...
- Increasing maize yields in Malawi
- K. Msarmo; W. Mhango / Bunda College of Agriculture, 2000
- Maize is the staple cereal crop to over 80% of the Malawian population and is grown on 75 to 85 % of the arable land. Farmers in Malawi grow hybrid, composite and local maize varieties. The current average yield for subsistence farmer...
- Cassava research in Malawi to improve crop management and technologies, and reduce food-deficit
- J. Rusike; S. Jumbo; P. Ntawuruhunga / AgEcon Search, 2010
- In Malawi, net-food-buying households in food deficit areas are experiencing poor access because of inadequate supplies and lack of purchasing power. This paper evaluates the impact of a cassava research for development project in Mal...
- A study on child nutrition data collection via text messages
- 2009
- Malawi’s current system for child nutrition data collection, the Integrated Nutritional and Food Security Surveillance (INFSS) system uses a random sample of children visiting growth monitoring clinics (GMCs) throughout the coun...
- Food security in Malawi
- C. Mataya / Bunda College of Agriculture, 2000
- According to the Malawi Vision 2020 report, the country aspires to have adequate and safe food for all members of the households at all times of the year by the year 2020. It is expected that this will be achieved through own producti...
- Can the nutrient intake of Ghanaians be increased without any significant effect on food expenditure?
- F.A. Darko; B. Allen; J. Mazunda / AgEcon Search, 2010
- Attaining the daily required nutritional recommendations is a major challenge in Ghana. This paper is tries to determine the cheapest basket of food items that satisfy the recommended daily nutritional requirements of the average Ghan...
- No significant differences in food security between male and female-headed households in Bangladesh
- D. Mallick; M. Rafi / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
- This paper uses household and village-level survey data to investigate the food security of male- and female-headed households in Bangladesh with particular attention to indigenous ethnic groups. The measure of food security is based ...
- The growing debate around GM Crops and the future of food and farming
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- The debate over genetically-modified (GM) crops is one of the most controversial and fiercely contested of recent times. While media coverage often focuses on disagreements between the United States and Europe, perhaps the main battle...
- 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
