Responding to food crises
Government and international responses to varied economic, policy and environmentally driven food crises at all levels; the cause and effect of rising food prices; different approaches to reducing vulnerability and strengthening resilience; the pros and cons of food aid
- How can North Korea avoid another food crisis?
- S. Haggard; M. Noland; E. Weeks / Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2008
- The margin of error between required grain in North Korea and available supply is now less than 100,000 metric tons. Local food prices are sky-rocketing faster than world prices, the regime has soured its aid relationships with key do...
- Assessing new rules on food aid
- R. Cardwell / Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, 2008
- Food aid is on the menu at the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) Round of World Trade Organisation negotiations. A potential new WTO agreement is almost certain to contain rules that will limit the circumstances under which food aid will ...
- Improving food crisis response in fragile states: towards a common classification framework?
- C. Andrews; M. Flores / United Nations University, 2008
- This paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognising the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and respons...
- Strengthening emergency needs assessment: lessons from Ethipoia
- N. Haan; N. Majid; J. Darcy / United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2006
- This study reviews the practice of Emergency Needs Assessment (ENA) in Ethiopia as it relates to food security, with a view to informing efforts by the World Food Programme (WFP) to improve ENA practice globally. It consider...
- Tackling food insecurity in Africa: a five-year strategic framework
- Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2008
- Sub-Saharan Africa is not on track to achieve a single Millennium Development Goal, and is the only region in the world where malnutrition – an outcome of food insecurity – is not declining. This paper presents ...
- Do small farmers hold the answer to the global food crisis?
- Vía Campesina, 2008
- The causes of the current world food crisis are complex, with recent coverage pointing to the impact of agrofuels, increasing world demand and global warming, among other factors. In this article, international peasant movement La Via...
- What can the international community do to help developing countries deal with rising food prices?
- International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
- Prepared by the FAO, IFAD and WEP for the meeting of the Chief Executives Board for Coordination on 28-29 April in Berne, Switzerland, this paper argues that the rapid price increase of basic food commodities internationally poses a s...
- What can be done to combat rising food prices?
- J. von Braun / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
- The sharp increase in food prices over the past couple of years has led to increasingly serious concerns about the situation of people around the world. This policy brief aims to identify what needs to be done now to address...
- How can women be more actively engaged in solving food crises?
- K. Hansen-Kuhn / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
- Over the last few decades, food crises have become a distressingly common phenomena. Women are often at the centre of these emergencies, though the disproportionate impact of hunger on women is too often hidden within statistics, simi...
- Establishing basic principles to guide decision-making in emergency situations
- United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2006
- Targeting is a process that spans the life of a food aid operation, not just the initial phases of identifying beneficiaries. Finding the right balance between inclusion and exclusion errors, opportunity costs and programme costs is a...
- Assessing new rules on food aid
- R. Cardwell / Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, 2008
- Food aid is on the menu at the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) Round of World Trade Organisation negotiations. A potential new WTO agreement is almost certain to contain rules that will limit the circumstances under which food aid will ...
- Improving food crisis response in fragile states: towards a common classification framework?
- C. Andrews; M. Flores / United Nations University, 2008
- This paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognising the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and respons...
- Strengthening emergency needs assessment: lessons from Ethipoia
- N. Haan; N. Majid; J. Darcy / United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2006
- This study reviews the practice of Emergency Needs Assessment (ENA) in Ethiopia as it relates to food security, with a view to informing efforts by the World Food Programme (WFP) to improve ENA practice globally. It consider...
- Tackling food insecurity in Africa: a five-year strategic framework
- Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2008
- Sub-Saharan Africa is not on track to achieve a single Millennium Development Goal, and is the only region in the world where malnutrition – an outcome of food insecurity – is not declining. This paper presents ...
- Do small farmers hold the answer to the global food crisis?
- Vía Campesina, 2008
- The causes of the current world food crisis are complex, with recent coverage pointing to the impact of agrofuels, increasing world demand and global warming, among other factors. In this article, international peasant movement La Via...
- What can the international community do to help developing countries deal with rising food prices?
- International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
- Prepared by the FAO, IFAD and WEP for the meeting of the Chief Executives Board for Coordination on 28-29 April in Berne, Switzerland, this paper argues that the rapid price increase of basic food commodities internationally poses a s...
- What can be done to combat rising food prices?
- J. von Braun / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
- The sharp increase in food prices over the past couple of years has led to increasingly serious concerns about the situation of people around the world. This policy brief aims to identify what needs to be done now to address...
- How can women be more actively engaged in solving food crises?
- K. Hansen-Kuhn / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
- Over the last few decades, food crises have become a distressingly common phenomena. Women are often at the centre of these emergencies, though the disproportionate impact of hunger on women is too often hidden within statistics, simi...
- Establishing basic principles to guide decision-making in emergency situations
- United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2006
- Targeting is a process that spans the life of a food aid operation, not just the initial phases of identifying beneficiaries. Finding the right balance between inclusion and exclusion errors, opportunity costs and programme costs is a...
- A need for policy and institutional reform in humanitarian response to food security
- J. Wirth; D. Maxwell; P. Webb; J. Coates / Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, 2008
- This paper serves as a background document to help frame discussion at the Food Security Forum in Rome, April 2008. It focuses on policy and institutional reform issues centred on the links between chronic and transitory crises. The a...
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