Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- 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...
- The challenge of climate change from a development perspective
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Climate change poses a potentially major challenge to social and economic development in all countries. It is widely accepted that at least part of the earth’s 0.6°C warming during the last 100 years is due to emissions of g...
- The African Union estimates that 27 percent of Africans are undernourished, a 2 percent decline since 1995
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Halving hunger and extreme poverty by 2015 is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). However, persistent hunger is still prevalent worldwide, slowing progress towards all other MDGs, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
- Examining the problems facing the fisheries sector and possible ways to address them
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- The increasing global demand for fish puts pressure on wild resources. This threatens the contribution of fisheries to poverty reduction and nutritional security in developing countries. Can these trends be reversed? Declining ...
- The challenge of climate change from a development perspective
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Climate change poses a potentially major challenge to social and economic development in all countries. It is widely accepted that at least part of the earth’s 0.6°C warming during the last 100 years is due to emissions of g...
- The African Union estimates that 27 percent of Africans are undernourished, a 2 percent decline since 1995
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Halving hunger and extreme poverty by 2015 is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). However, persistent hunger is still prevalent worldwide, slowing progress towards all other MDGs, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
- Examining the problems facing the fisheries sector and possible ways to address them
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- The increasing global demand for fish puts pressure on wild resources. This threatens the contribution of fisheries to poverty reduction and nutritional security in developing countries. Can these trends be reversed? Declining ...
- Food production and the food system must assume a higher priority in political agendas across the world
- Foresight UK, 2011
- The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate chan...
- Engineers respond to population increases with a set of Engineering Development Goals
- T. Fox (ed) / Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
- Energy, food, water, urbanisation and finance are areas significantly affected by the effects of population growth. How can the engineering profession respond to key challenges in order to ensure the provision of food, water, shelter ...
- Improving food security through trade liberalisation
- A.F. McCalla (ed); J. Nash (ed) 2007
- Among the many reasons that agricultural trade reforms are important, two stand out: the importance of agriculture in developing countries and the slow growth of agricultural trade from developing countries to developed countries. ...
- Food insecurity and vulnerability in the face of HIV/AIDS: the case of Malawi
- M. Palamuleni; P. Kambewa; J. Kadzandira / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2003
- In December 2002/January 2003, the World Food Programme commissioned a study to provide an analysis of the linkages between HIV/AIDS and food security in Malawi. It also aimed to build an analysis of the linkages between HIV/AIDS and ...
- Investing in disaster risk reduction activities in Malawi
- C.C. Venton; J. Sidenburg; J. Faleiro / Tearfund, 2010
- This study presents a community-based cost benefit analysis of a disaster risk reduction (DRR) and food security programme in a Malawian agricultural community. The paper firstly states that drought has had serious impacts ...
- Support income generation in rural Malawi
- A.O. Mulwafu / Self Help Africa: Malawi, 2007
- This paper reports on a study focused on the role of the informal sector in poverty reduction and food security in Malawi. Most previous studies have focused on the formal sector activities in terms of understanding poverty reduction ...
- Cassava production in Malawi
- L. Chiwona-Karltun; J. Mkumbira / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2000
- Agriculture in Malawi accounts for 35% of GDP, more than 90% of exchange foreign earnings and provides employment to the 92% of the population that is rural. In areas of the country where cassava is the main staple crop, 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
