Food security
- Evaluation study on appropriate models of livelihood strategies for social protection in Zambia
- Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- Due to serious deterioration of socio-economic conditions in Zambia, the government is considering the adoption of a national Social Protection Strategy. This report examines Zambian and internatio...
- Lessons from Ethiopia on a scaled-up national safety net programme
- Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- This brief synthesises three reports on Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP). The first is on trends in programme transfers within targeted households. It analyses t...
- Extending the household economy approach to support the design of cash transfer programmes in Zambia
- J. Seaman;J. Acidri;M. Kachale / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- Cash transfer programmes have been proposed as a means of providing benefits to targeted individuals or households in poorer African countries. A large programme aimed at poverty relief would...
- Bio-fuels and food aid: the impact on southern Africa
- C. Grant / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- The production of biofuel has more than doubled in the United States since 2001 while food aid levels have been steadily declining. This brief considers how the global shift to ethanol may affect f...
- Biofuel production and the threat to South Africa's food security
- A. Sugrue;R. Douthwaite / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- As biofuel production continues to expand rapidly all over the world, there is increasing concern about how this will affect food prices, particularly of foodcrops used to produce biofuels. This pa...
- Food security in southern Africa: changing the trend?
- N. Maunder; S. Wiggins / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006
- What progress has been made in the southern Africa region in understanding, and appropriately responding to, transitory and chronic food insecurity? Emerging from food security crises from 2001-03, th...
- Food aid in southern Africa: the WTO and beyond
- C. Grant / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006
- How can the countries of Southern Africa reduce the "dumping" effects of food aid on local markets while also ensuring its availability in emergencies? This four-page issues paper considers the concer...
- The impact of food aid on grain markets in Southern Africa: implications for tackling chronic vulnerability
- N. Maunder; P. Jere; G. Tembo / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006
- This briefing analyses concern that food aid may serve to undermine longer term development, through its disincentive effects on both agricultural production and markets. Within the context of souther...
- Social protection mechanisms in southern Africa
- S. Devereux / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006
- Social protection is a relatively new concept in southern Africa. Regular, predictable and guaranteed transfers to the vulnerable in most countries have yet to be integrated into existing policies saf...
- Politics and the feasibility of initiatives on hunger and vulnerability
- L. Cliffe / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006
- This briefing suggests how key political factors for policy-making can be identified, and assesses their importance within the context of delivering social protection. The author illuminates the exten...
