Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- 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...
- Justice and sustainability: resistance and innovation in a transnational land deal in Ghana
- P. Wisborg / World Bank, 2012
- This paper examines the case of a Nordic appropriation of land through a lease agreement with chiefs in southern Ghana, initially for biofuel production and then for large-scale, mechanized food production.The production shift trigger...
- Farmers’ Rights Project: Furthering agrobiodiversity as a means of poverty alleviation
- R. Andersen / Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012
- Farmers’ rights related to crop genetic resources are an essential precondition for maintaining crop genetic diversity, which is the basis of all food and agriculture production around the globe. Genetic diversity provides the po...
- Alternative investment strategies for increasing resilience in the Horn of Africa
- D. Headey; A. S. Taffesse; L. You / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- This discussion paper seeks to explore alternative investment options with the aim of enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa. Climate change, conflict, drought and increasing populations are leading many to pessimistic conclusions...
- Norway & Tanzania: partners in development - booklet from Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania
- 2012
- Norway and Tanzania have been partners for 50 years. Political commitment, social, cultural, academic and commercial interactions have created links and relations that go far beyond the traditional development cooperation. Tanzania ha...
- The poverty and welfare impacts of climate change quantifying the effects, identifying the adaptation strategies
- E. Skoufias / World Bank, 2012
- Although poverty remains widespread in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, substantial progress has been made especially in the past three decades. Nevertheless, this report stresses that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural...
- 2012 Global Hunger Index. The challenge of hunger: Ensuring sustainable food security under land, water, and energy stresses
- K. von Grebmer 2012
- The 2012 GHI report focuses particularly on the issue of how to ensure sustainable food security under conditions of water, land, and energy stress. Demographic changes, rising incomes and associated consumption patterns, and climate ...
- Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- 2012
- Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’...
- Climate change and agriculture: can market governance mechanisms reduce emissions from the food system fairly and effectively?
- T. Garnett / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
- Agriculture accounts for 30 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. How agriculture is practised, therefore, has significant potential for mitigating climate change, providing food security and improving the livelihoods of food p...
- Extreme weather events and crop price spikes in a changing climate: illustrative global simulation scenarios
- D. Willenbockel / Oxfam, 2012
- Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes. Various impact studies have considered the effects of projected long-run trends in temperature, precipitation and carbon dioxide concentrations caused by cli...
- Justice and sustainability: resistance and innovation in a transnational land deal in Ghana
- P. Wisborg / World Bank, 2012
- This paper examines the case of a Nordic appropriation of land through a lease agreement with chiefs in southern Ghana, initially for biofuel production and then for large-scale, mechanized food production.The production shift trigger...
- Farmers’ Rights Project: Furthering agrobiodiversity as a means of poverty alleviation
- R. Andersen / Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012
- Farmers’ rights related to crop genetic resources are an essential precondition for maintaining crop genetic diversity, which is the basis of all food and agriculture production around the globe. Genetic diversity provides the po...
- Alternative investment strategies for increasing resilience in the Horn of Africa
- D. Headey; A. S. Taffesse; L. You / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- This discussion paper seeks to explore alternative investment options with the aim of enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa. Climate change, conflict, drought and increasing populations are leading many to pessimistic conclusions...
- Norway & Tanzania: partners in development - booklet from Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania
- 2012
- Norway and Tanzania have been partners for 50 years. Political commitment, social, cultural, academic and commercial interactions have created links and relations that go far beyond the traditional development cooperation. Tanzania ha...
- The poverty and welfare impacts of climate change quantifying the effects, identifying the adaptation strategies
- E. Skoufias / World Bank, 2012
- Although poverty remains widespread in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, substantial progress has been made especially in the past three decades. Nevertheless, this report stresses that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural...
- 2012 Global Hunger Index. The challenge of hunger: Ensuring sustainable food security under land, water, and energy stresses
- K. von Grebmer 2012
- The 2012 GHI report focuses particularly on the issue of how to ensure sustainable food security under conditions of water, land, and energy stress. Demographic changes, rising incomes and associated consumption patterns, and climate ...
- Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- 2012
- Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’...
- Climate change and agriculture: can market governance mechanisms reduce emissions from the food system fairly and effectively?
- T. Garnett / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
- Agriculture accounts for 30 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. How agriculture is practised, therefore, has significant potential for mitigating climate change, providing food security and improving the livelihoods of food p...
- Extreme weather events and crop price spikes in a changing climate: illustrative global simulation scenarios
- D. Willenbockel / Oxfam, 2012
- Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes. Various impact studies have considered the effects of projected long-run trends in temperature, precipitation and carbon dioxide concentrations caused by cli...
- Facts on water harvesting
- Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
- Lack of soil fertility and water stress are two main factors which limit agricultural production critical to food security. Rainfed agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change, causing rainfall to be more scarce and erratic. Ha...
- Programme of Advisory and Support Services to DFID (PASS)
- Policy advisory service
- Drylands Development Centre, UNDP (DDC)
- UNDP’s Drylands Development Centre specialises in assisting countries to fight poverty and encourage development in the drier parts of the world. The Centre located in Nairobi, Kenya, is one of the three UNDP Thematic Centres around the world. The Centre's website includes details of DDC policies and work programmes as well as a range of publications including outputs from various events and wo...
- Action contre la Faim
- French NGO working in nutrition, health, food security, and water and sanitation
- Gene Conserve
- Electronic journal focussing on crop genetic resources with an emphasis on cassava
- HEWSweb
- Global humanitarian early warming information
- Integrated Support to Sustainable Development and Food Security Programme (IP)
- FAO sustainable development and food security programme
- National NGO Food Security Network (FOSENET)
- National NGO Food Security Network (FOSENET)
- Multi-donor evaluation of the World Food Programme's Enabling Development Policy
- Understanding the conditions for success and failure for food aid in development
- Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency
- Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency
- Partners and Food in Emergency and Development Aid (PFEDA)
- PFEDA is a project that, in a first step, aims to the free diffusion on Internet of databases (PARTNERS and FOOD) which concern the Emergency and Development Aid. In a second step, it proposes to use such a tool for the progressive setting up of a system of traceability of goods and related services. Currently available databases include food composition tables from USDA andfrom African infant-...
