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Why was southern Africa more vulnerable to the food production shock of 2002 than to the more severe shock of 1992?
S. Devereux / Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003
This paper asks: What social protection policies and institutions are needed to achieve the food security goal of ensuring adequate and appropriate food at affordable prices to all southern Africans at all times? The report def...
Why do female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households in Ghana?
C. E. Levin; D. G. Maxwell; M. Armar-Klemesu; M. T. Ruel; S. S. Morris; C. Ahiadeke / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999
Despite lower incomes and additional demands on their time as housewives and mothers, female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households. Women may be achieving house...
Study on the economic impacts of AIDS related death on rural Kenyan households
T. Yamano; T. Jayne1 / The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2002
This paper describes two year study of Kenyan households where a 'prime age' member had died. It assesses the proportion of these deaths that can be attributed to HIV/AIDS and finds that only a quarter of the prime-age female deaths i...
How can labour saving technologies improve food security for farm households affected by HIV/AIDS?
J. du Guerny / HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 2002
This paper is based on the premise that one of the promising strategies for response from the agriculture sector to the impacts on labour is to identify the roles for labour saving technologies (LSTs) not only in mitigation, but also ...
Integrating women into income generating activities in Guatemala
C. Carletto / Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1998
This paper reviews IFAD's activities in Guatemala and analyses their effects on household food security (HFS)and the status of women. It also develops and discusses an indicator of household vulnerability to food insecurity, based on ...
Different priorities for development in Moroocon villages
A. Lubbock; R. Borquia / Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1998
This document presents the main findings of a study carried out between 1994 and 1995 in three villages in Eastern Morocco - each representative of a different environmental context. The study concerns gender roles in household produc...
Do poor girls in the Yemen and Egypt have lower educational attainment and engage in child labour?
S. E. El-Kogali; E. A Suliman / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
The objective of this study is to examine the impacts of poverty on children's health status and educational attainment in Yemen and Egypt. The hypothesis is children from poor families, particularly girls have lower health status, lo...
Memory Checks for Programme and Project Design: Household Food Security and Gender
International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2000
Basic training guide, intended as a support to design teams and project planners in diagnosing and focusing on critical issues relevant to gender and household food security. It contains a summary of issues to address in design...
How can institutional collaboration support individual and household food security, and, through that, improve the quality of the labor supply?
C. Johnson-Welch; B. Alemu; Theresia Peter Msaki; M. Sengendo; H. Kigutha; A. Wolff / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
Food security is a multi-dimensional development issue that needs cross-sectoral integrated approaches. This case study research was designed to challenge the belief that it is too difficult to apply integrated approaches. It d...
Incorporating gender into household food security: adding a human dimension
C. Johnson-Welch / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
This presentation deals with the way in which gender impacts food security issues in developing countries. The presentation is based on a series of in-depth case-studies and focuses on institutions, operational factors in food securit...
Items 61 to 70 of 83

Items 61 to 70 of 83

Why was southern Africa more vulnerable to the food production shock of 2002 than to the more severe shock of 1992?
S. Devereux / Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003
This paper asks: What social protection policies and institutions are needed to achieve the food security goal of ensuring adequate and appropriate food at affordable prices to all southern Africans at all times? The report def...
Why do female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households in Ghana?
C. E. Levin; D. G. Maxwell; M. Armar-Klemesu; M. T. Ruel; S. S. Morris; C. Ahiadeke / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999
Despite lower incomes and additional demands on their time as housewives and mothers, female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households. Women may be achieving house...
Study on the economic impacts of AIDS related death on rural Kenyan households
T. Yamano; T. Jayne1 / The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2002
This paper describes two year study of Kenyan households where a 'prime age' member had died. It assesses the proportion of these deaths that can be attributed to HIV/AIDS and finds that only a quarter of the prime-age female deaths i...
How can labour saving technologies improve food security for farm households affected by HIV/AIDS?
J. du Guerny / HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 2002
This paper is based on the premise that one of the promising strategies for response from the agriculture sector to the impacts on labour is to identify the roles for labour saving technologies (LSTs) not only in mitigation, but also ...
Integrating women into income generating activities in Guatemala
C. Carletto / Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1998
This paper reviews IFAD's activities in Guatemala and analyses their effects on household food security (HFS)and the status of women. It also develops and discusses an indicator of household vulnerability to food insecurity, based on ...
Different priorities for development in Moroocon villages
A. Lubbock; R. Borquia / Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1998
This document presents the main findings of a study carried out between 1994 and 1995 in three villages in Eastern Morocco - each representative of a different environmental context. The study concerns gender roles in household produc...
Do poor girls in the Yemen and Egypt have lower educational attainment and engage in child labour?
S. E. El-Kogali; E. A Suliman / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
The objective of this study is to examine the impacts of poverty on children's health status and educational attainment in Yemen and Egypt. The hypothesis is children from poor families, particularly girls have lower health status, lo...
Memory Checks for Programme and Project Design: Household Food Security and Gender
International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2000
Basic training guide, intended as a support to design teams and project planners in diagnosing and focusing on critical issues relevant to gender and household food security. It contains a summary of issues to address in design...
How can institutional collaboration support individual and household food security, and, through that, improve the quality of the labor supply?
C. Johnson-Welch; B. Alemu; Theresia Peter Msaki; M. Sengendo; H. Kigutha; A. Wolff / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
Food security is a multi-dimensional development issue that needs cross-sectoral integrated approaches. This case study research was designed to challenge the belief that it is too difficult to apply integrated approaches. It d...
Incorporating gender into household food security: adding a human dimension
C. Johnson-Welch / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
This presentation deals with the way in which gender impacts food security issues in developing countries. The presentation is based on a series of in-depth case-studies and focuses on institutions, operational factors in food securit...
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