Food security
- Strategies for adapting to climate change in rural sub-Saharan Africa
- ( M. Jonathan / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2010)
- Adaptation strategies must target those populations most vulnerable to global change and equip those unable to adapt—generally the poorest—with the tools and incentives that will enable th...
- Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition: homestead food production in Bangladesh
- ( L. Iannotti;K. Cunningham;M. Ruel / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2012)
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A critical yet often overlooked component of food security is diet quality. Even households who have access to sufficient amounts of food and calories may still lack essential micronutrients, incre...
- Promising Approaches to Address the Needs of Poor Female Farmers: Resources, Constraints, and Interventions
- ( A. Quisumbing;L. Pandolfelli / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- Which policy interventions have improved female farmers’ access to agricultural resources including land, soil fertility, water and credit, increasing their resilience to climate change? This pa...
- Access, Adoption, and Diffusion: Understanding the Long-term Impacts of Improved Vegetable and Fish Technologies in Bangladesh
- ( International Food Policy Research Institute , 2010)
- Malnutrition continues to be a serious problem in Bangladesh. In 1996–1997, households were surveyed in three sites to examine the effects of the adoption (two years prior) of new vegetable vari...
- Gender and Collective Action: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis
- ( International Food Policy Research Institute , 2005)
- This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender to better understand how gender-oriented analysis can foster effective collective action in the conte...
- External shocks and domestic poverty alleviation: simulations with a CGE model of Malawi
- ( O. Chulu;O. Sichinga;F. Simtowe / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2001)
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Two sets of issues loom large on the economic horizon of Malawi: poverty alleviation and the country’s vulnerability to shocks emanating from the outside world. This paper analyses the aspect...
- Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Malawi
- ( S. Benin;J. Thurlow;X. Diao / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2008)
- Malawi has experienced modest economic growth over the last decade and a half. However, agricultural growth has been particularly erratic, and while the incidence of poverty has declined, it still rem...
- Gender, Food Security and AIDS in Internally Displaced People's Camps in Uganda: implications for HIV Responsive Policy and Programming
- ( International Food Policy Research Institute , 2008)
- This two-page brief provides an overview of research conducted in 2007-08 into the interactions between gender relations, HIV and AIDS and food security in war-affected communities in Northern Uganda....
- Using gender research in development: food security in practice
- ( International Food Policy Research Institute , 2006)
- Gender equality is a basic human right, and closing the gender gap is key to achieving many development objectives. Yet many practitioners and advocates concerned with achieving gender equality are of...
- Gender: A Key Dimension Linking Agricultural Programs to Improved Nutrition and Health
- ( International Food Policy Research Institute , 2011)
- This four-page brief highlights the need for a gender equitable approach to standard agricultural development strategies in order to in improve the livelihoods and well-being of rural poor. Evid...
