Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- 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...
- Enhancing women’s leadership to address the challenges of climate change on nutrition security and health
- C Tirado / United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2011
- Climate change affects all the basic determinants of health, including food, shelter, water and air. More specifically, it will exacerbate the under nutrition crisis through a lack of access to sufficient, safe and adequate food at ho...
- Development support program for stone quarry affected communities in West-Bengal and Jarkhand, Pilot Project 2010-2012, Evaluation Report
- R. Kumar 2012
- The project is implemented particularly for the benefit of those Santhal communities who are working in stone quarry and crusher units of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The major focus areas of the project are occupational Safety, Health,...
- Where the rain falls: climate change, food and livelihood security, and migration
- K. Warner / United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
- This comparative study highlights that rainfall variability and food insecurity are key drivers for human mobility. The empirical research is based on eight country case studies, including a 1,300 household survey and participatory re...
- The food security policy context in Brazil
- D. Chmielewska / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2011
- Accomplishments, such as the Zero Hunger strategy and the National Food and Nutritional Security Policy (PNSAN), show that Brazil has a strong food policy framework in place. Moreover, there have been related public action interventio...
- A reference for designing food and nutrition security policies: the Brazilian Fome Zero strategy
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- Between 2000-2002 and 2004?2006, the undernourished population of Brazil reduced from 17 million to 11.9 million thanks to an integrated effort whose centrepiece was the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) strategy, launched in January 2003 by th...
- Food and nutrition security, health and gender equality: partnerships for climate-resilient sustainable development
- Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, 2012
- This policy brief provides key recommendations with a view to RIO+20 and the post 2015 MDG agenda. It argues that food and nutrition security, climate change, health, gender equality and environmental degradation are closely interlink...
- Gender, IFIs and the global food crisis case study: Zambia
- S Bibler; C Lauterbach / Gender Action, 2012
- With 63% of Zambians living on less than $1.25 per day, poverty and food security are widespread. This case study argues that International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have contributed to this food insecurity due to neoliberal struc...
- Gender resource portal of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) gender resource portal includes many resources on gender, food and nutrition security. It contains a number of links to publications on gender and agricultural growth and techno...
- Creating gender-responsive agricultural development programs: an orientation document
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
- This document provides an overview of gender issues in agricultural development, and describes the kind of gender-responsive programmes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking to fund. Some of the topics it highlights are: ...
- Enhancing women’s leadership to address the challenges of climate change on nutrition security and health
- C Tirado / United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2011
- Climate change affects all the basic determinants of health, including food, shelter, water and air. More specifically, it will exacerbate the under nutrition crisis through a lack of access to sufficient, safe and adequate food at ho...
- Development support program for stone quarry affected communities in West-Bengal and Jarkhand, Pilot Project 2010-2012, Evaluation Report
- R. Kumar 2012
- The project is implemented particularly for the benefit of those Santhal communities who are working in stone quarry and crusher units of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The major focus areas of the project are occupational Safety, Health,...
- Where the rain falls: climate change, food and livelihood security, and migration
- K. Warner / United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
- This comparative study highlights that rainfall variability and food insecurity are key drivers for human mobility. The empirical research is based on eight country case studies, including a 1,300 household survey and participatory re...
- The food security policy context in Brazil
- D. Chmielewska / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2011
- Accomplishments, such as the Zero Hunger strategy and the National Food and Nutritional Security Policy (PNSAN), show that Brazil has a strong food policy framework in place. Moreover, there have been related public action interventio...
- A reference for designing food and nutrition security policies: the Brazilian Fome Zero strategy
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- Between 2000-2002 and 2004?2006, the undernourished population of Brazil reduced from 17 million to 11.9 million thanks to an integrated effort whose centrepiece was the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) strategy, launched in January 2003 by th...
- Food and nutrition security, health and gender equality: partnerships for climate-resilient sustainable development
- Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, 2012
- This policy brief provides key recommendations with a view to RIO+20 and the post 2015 MDG agenda. It argues that food and nutrition security, climate change, health, gender equality and environmental degradation are closely interlink...
- Gender, IFIs and the global food crisis case study: Zambia
- S Bibler; C Lauterbach / Gender Action, 2012
- With 63% of Zambians living on less than $1.25 per day, poverty and food security are widespread. This case study argues that International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have contributed to this food insecurity due to neoliberal struc...
- Gender resource portal of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) gender resource portal includes many resources on gender, food and nutrition security. It contains a number of links to publications on gender and agricultural growth and techno...
- Creating gender-responsive agricultural development programs: an orientation document
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
- This document provides an overview of gender issues in agricultural development, and describes the kind of gender-responsive programmes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking to fund. Some of the topics it highlights are: ...
- Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh
- H. Wright / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. It examines the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and changes...
- Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP)
- Wahenga.net is the official website of the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP). RHVP is about promoting change. Changing the way the livelihoods of the most vulnerable in southern Africa are understood and supported. RHVP wants to change mindsets, practice and policy to ensure that the chronic vulnerability that southern African countries are experiencing year on year is reduced....
- International NGO/CSO Planning Committee (IPC)
- Global network of NGOs/CSOs concerned with food sovereignty issues
- Choices Magazine
- Agricultural and environmental research
- Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO (ESA)
- FAO division for agricultural, poverty and food security economics
- Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS)
- Food insecurity and vulnerability information and mapping systems
- Committee on World Food Security, FAO (CFS)
- Reviews and follows-up policies concerning world food security
- Agricultural Economics Society, UK (AES)
- Agricultural economics society
- Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository (FAO)
- Food and agriculture online library
- Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Benin (UAC)
- Teaching and research faculty of agrarian science
- Kenyatta University, Kenya
- Teaching and research university with a wide range of subjects
