Analysis of approaches to understanding and addressing food security issues; examination of the structural causes of food insecurity and different policy responses.
- 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...
- Facts on Ecofarm
- J. B. Aune / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
- The Sahel countries face a range of problems from low food insecurity to environmental problems like climate change and soil degradation. The Ecofarm project was undertaken in Mali, Sudan and Ethiopia to address these problems through...
- DCG Strategy 2012-2016
- Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2011
- The Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) strategy for the period 2012-2016 presents DCG's strategic framework, its values and working principles, target groups, overall goal, and priority themes for the up-coming strategic period. ...
- Case studies of food security and agricultural development in the Southern African Development Community
- Southern African Development Community, 2012
- This series of 5 policy studies has been undertaken to guide the formulation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Agricultural Policy (RAP). The studies aimed to strengthen the rationale of relevant policy iss...
- Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots
- New England Complex Systems Institute, 2012
- Yemen is considered a global terrorist base for Al-Qaeda and violence is threatening social order. The socio-economic origins of violence have changed. Prior to 2008, violence can be attributed to inter-group conflict between distinct...
- Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 (43rd edition)
- Asian Development Bank, 2012
- This publication includes the latest available economic, financial, social and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to present the latest key statistics on development issue...
- Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from east Africa
- P. Kristjanson / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- Smallholder farmers across east Africa have started to embrace climate-resilient farming approaches and technologies, according to this study by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) research programme. At the same...
- 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...
- Food Security in Southern Africa: A loaf in hand is worth two in the oven?
- Trade Knowledge Network, 2012
- The increase in food prices in the period from 2006 to 2008 and the increased volatility of food markets has awakened a deep concern around the world over the problems of food security in food deficit and food importing countries. Thi...
- Sokoine University of Agriculture
- University departments offering teaching, research and consultancy services.
- Facts on Ecofarm
- J. B. Aune / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
- The Sahel countries face a range of problems from low food insecurity to environmental problems like climate change and soil degradation. The Ecofarm project was undertaken in Mali, Sudan and Ethiopia to address these problems through...
- DCG Strategy 2012-2016
- Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2011
- The Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) strategy for the period 2012-2016 presents DCG's strategic framework, its values and working principles, target groups, overall goal, and priority themes for the up-coming strategic period. ...
- Case studies of food security and agricultural development in the Southern African Development Community
- Southern African Development Community, 2012
- This series of 5 policy studies has been undertaken to guide the formulation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Agricultural Policy (RAP). The studies aimed to strengthen the rationale of relevant policy iss...
- Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots
- New England Complex Systems Institute, 2012
- Yemen is considered a global terrorist base for Al-Qaeda and violence is threatening social order. The socio-economic origins of violence have changed. Prior to 2008, violence can be attributed to inter-group conflict between distinct...
- Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 (43rd edition)
- Asian Development Bank, 2012
- This publication includes the latest available economic, financial, social and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to present the latest key statistics on development issue...
- Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from east Africa
- P. Kristjanson / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- Smallholder farmers across east Africa have started to embrace climate-resilient farming approaches and technologies, according to this study by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) research programme. At the same...
- Food Security in Southern Africa: A loaf in hand is worth two in the oven?
- Trade Knowledge Network, 2012
- The increase in food prices in the period from 2006 to 2008 and the increased volatility of food markets has awakened a deep concern around the world over the problems of food security in food deficit and food importing countries. Thi...
- Integrating the Voices of the Local People in the Food Security Policy Debate in Malawi
- B. Chinsinga / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2009
- This article explores the potential of the voices of the local people to mediate between competing food security perspectives in order to develop a viable food security framework for Malawi. It is based on data from a study that was c...
- Pakistan is a food sufficient country but a lot of the population is undernourished
- M.K. Bashir; S. Schilizzi; R. Pandit / AgEcon Search, 2012
- Pakistan is one of the leading producers of important agricultural commodities in the world with a relatively high proportion of undernourished population (26 %). This study aims to examine the food security trends in Pakistan in gene...
- Poverty in Uganda declined as a result of external price shocks
- O. Boysen; A. Matthews / AgEcon Search, 2012
- The price spike of 2006-08 set off alarm bells that millions of poor households would find themselves pushed below the poverty line or pushed further below it as a result of these higher prices. This paper analyses the impact of the 2...
- Laboratoire de Recherche sur la Pauvreté et la Sécurité Alimentaire Durable (LARPSAD)
- Socio-economic research centre at the University of Lomé, Togo
- Institute of Development Research, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (IDR)
- Ethiopian socio-economic research institute
- Sustaining Local Food Systems: Agricultural Diversity and Livelihoods Programme (IIED)
- IIED Livelihoods and agricultural biodiversity programme
- Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
- Southern African food, agriculture and resource policy network
- Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI)
- Regional institute researching nutritional problems in Caribbean countries
- EuronAid
- Facilitating critical food aid through the EC
- Right to Food Campaign, New Delhi
- Right to food campaign, India
- Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, IWMI (CAWMA)
- Evaluating water management for best practices
- Micronutrient Initiative, Ottawa (MI)
- Organisation working on micronutrient malnutrition
- Southern Africa Humanitarian Information Network, Johannesburg (SAHIMS)
- Southern Africa humanitarian information network
