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Southern Africa food security outlook: October 2007 to March 2008
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007This report summarises the results of a study of the food security outlook for Southern Africa, highlighting the major threats to food security in the period October 2007 to March 2008. It incorporates the findings from six country outlooks, and aims to provide a basis for regional and global resource allocation and contingency planning, as well as in-country planning.DocumentStructural shift in demand for food: projections for 2020
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2006Over the past two decades, even the poor in India have shifted their consumption away from cereals towards other foods. What are the implications of this for India’s future food security? This study reviews trends in per capita consumption of cereals and non-cereals to identify the factors that affect changes in cereal consumption, and compares future demand with supply projections.DocumentMeeting the HIV/AIDS challenge to food security: the role of labour saving technologies in farm-households
HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 2002This 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 as part of prevention.DocumentEffects of market reform on access to food by low-income households: evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa (MSU)
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999DocumentThe impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. It investigates how caring for a chronically ill family member impinges on household production and alters labour allocation between genders and generations.DocumentIn sickness and in health... : risk-sharing within households in rural Ethiopia
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997To investigate risk-sharing within the household, we model nutritional status as a durable good and we look at the consequences of individual health shocks. For household allocation to be pareto-efficient, households should pool shocks to income. We also investigate whether households can smooth nutritional levels over time.DocumentStructure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar
International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.DocumentEffects of market reform on access to food by low-income households : evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This report highlights conclusions from the study which have broader implications for targeting vulnerable groups. There appear to be major opportunities to promote household food security through the use of self-targeting.DocumentUrban maize meal consumption patterns: strategies for improving food access for vulnerable urban households in Kenya
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1995This report examines maize consumption patterns in response to policy changes in Kenya and the implications for urban food security. It is based on empirical evidence from a household survey. The researchers’ five conclusions challenge conventional assumptions about fixed consumer tastes and preferences in relation to agriculture policy.Pages
