Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- The state of food and agriculture: investing in agriculture for a better future
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- Recent food crises and growing concerns about global climate change have placed agriculture on top of the international agenda. Decision-makers have recognised the strong link between the dual goals of eradicating hunger and making ag...
- Can Provision of Household Agricultural Extension Packages Reduce Rural Food Insecurity and Poverty in Tigray?
- H. Tesfa / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
- The overall working hypothesis of the paper is that the programme has positive contribution in improving household welfare and reduces the incidence, depth and severity of poverty in study areas. The analysis is based on primary house...
- Translating famine early warning into early action: an east Africa case study
- J. Mosley / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2012
- This paper considers the political contexts in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, how these affected the response to the 2011 Horn of Africa emergency, and the implications for future response. Although the Horn of Africa is often seen as a...
- Gender: A key dimension linking agricultural programs to improved nutrition and health
- R Meinzen-Dick / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- Empirical evidence shows that increasing women’s control over land, physical assets, and financial assets serves to raise agricultural productivity, improve child health and nutrition, and increase expenditures on education, as ...
- Concept note for the preliminary study on rural women and the right to food
- M Zulficar / Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2012
- This concept note sets out the content of an upcoming study on rural women and the right to food. The study suggests intersections between women’s rights and the right to food, interrelating with discrimination around access to l...
- Gender in emergency food security, livelihoods and nutrition in Somalia
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- This Food and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FNASU) desk based review examines traditional and changing gender roles and responsibilities in food security, livelihood and nutrition, examining what is known about the Somalian context and gap...
- Addressing the gender gap in agriculture: opportunities for collaboration in gender-responsive research
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012
- This workshop report by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) Gender and Agriculture Research Network identifies opportunities for cross programme collaboration to enhance CGIAR’s contribu...
- World Food Programme Gender Assessment Brief
- World Food Programme, 2012
- In 2010 the World Food Programme (WFP) conducted a gender assessment to inform WFP’s Bangladesh Country Strategy and Country Programme for 2012 – 2016. This brief assessment provided a set of programme specific and cross-s...
- Nutrition: nutrition of women in the preconception period, during pregnancy and the breastfeeding period
- World Health Organization, 2012
- This report argues that taking a life cycle approach and securing good nutritional status for women across the life course will in the long term reduce child underweight and stunting. It argues that around 30% of all women aged 15 to ...
- Gender and Nutrition: FAO draft issue paper
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- This draft issue paper was prepared by FAO in October 2012 as a working document before submission to and discussion within the UNSCN with a view to developing consensual briefs for non-specialists on crosscutting issues impacting foo...
- Can Provision of Household Agricultural Extension Packages Reduce Rural Food Insecurity and Poverty in Tigray?
- H. Tesfa / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
- The overall working hypothesis of the paper is that the programme has positive contribution in improving household welfare and reduces the incidence, depth and severity of poverty in study areas. The analysis is based on primary house...
- Translating famine early warning into early action: an east Africa case study
- J. Mosley / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2012
- This paper considers the political contexts in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, how these affected the response to the 2011 Horn of Africa emergency, and the implications for future response. Although the Horn of Africa is often seen as a...
- Gender: A key dimension linking agricultural programs to improved nutrition and health
- R Meinzen-Dick / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- Empirical evidence shows that increasing women’s control over land, physical assets, and financial assets serves to raise agricultural productivity, improve child health and nutrition, and increase expenditures on education, as ...
- Concept note for the preliminary study on rural women and the right to food
- M Zulficar / Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2012
- This concept note sets out the content of an upcoming study on rural women and the right to food. The study suggests intersections between women’s rights and the right to food, interrelating with discrimination around access to l...
- Gender in emergency food security, livelihoods and nutrition in Somalia
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- This Food and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FNASU) desk based review examines traditional and changing gender roles and responsibilities in food security, livelihood and nutrition, examining what is known about the Somalian context and gap...
- Addressing the gender gap in agriculture: opportunities for collaboration in gender-responsive research
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012
- This workshop report by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) Gender and Agriculture Research Network identifies opportunities for cross programme collaboration to enhance CGIAR’s contribu...
- World Food Programme Gender Assessment Brief
- World Food Programme, 2012
- In 2010 the World Food Programme (WFP) conducted a gender assessment to inform WFP’s Bangladesh Country Strategy and Country Programme for 2012 – 2016. This brief assessment provided a set of programme specific and cross-s...
- Nutrition: nutrition of women in the preconception period, during pregnancy and the breastfeeding period
- World Health Organization, 2012
- This report argues that taking a life cycle approach and securing good nutritional status for women across the life course will in the long term reduce child underweight and stunting. It argues that around 30% of all women aged 15 to ...
- Gender and Nutrition: FAO draft issue paper
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- This draft issue paper was prepared by FAO in October 2012 as a working document before submission to and discussion within the UNSCN with a view to developing consensual briefs for non-specialists on crosscutting issues impacting foo...
- Women and Children’s Health: PMNCH Knowledge Summary 18 on nutrition
- 1,000 Days, 2012
- Gender inequality is linked to higher rates of child mortality and malnutrition. Women often have less education, lower economic status, and limited decision-making at household and community levels, all of which contributes to poorer...
- European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
- The mission of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability is to provide scientific-technical support to the European Union's policies for the protection and sustainable development of the European and global environment.
- Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition
- Global online community on food security and nutrition
- Prospect C&S
- Consulting company specialising in development and environment, experience in particular in the fields of rural development, food security and decentralistion. Site includes job adverts. Experts can register CVs online.
- terre des hommes
- terre des hommes Germany is an aid organisation focussing on children.
- Amazon Watch
- Defending the environment and indigenous rights in the Amazon
- Vulnerability Network and Observatory
- Research network providing resources on issues linked to environment and vulnerability
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal
- Integrated community development programmes in Nepal
- Germanwatch
- German NGO lobbying for sustainable global development
- Valid International
- Health care for humanitarian assistance
- The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
- The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa was formed in early 2000 out of concern that the U.S. response to rising hunger and poverty in Africa was increasingly inadequate. The Partnership's initial focus was to formulate a vision, strategy, and action plan to significantly increase public and private investment in African economic development and to increase the effectiveness of U.S. as...
