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Climate change impacts on livestock
Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015This working paper summarizes projected climate change impacts on livestock across Africa.DocumentOptions for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Elsevier, 2011This journal article highlights that agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change.DocumentIs Reliable Water Access the Solution to Undernutrition?
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment. However, current evidence on the topic is diluted across many different publications.DocumentFood wasted, food lost: food security by restoring ecosystems and reducing food loss
GRID Arendal, 2014Food security is critical for health, labour productivity, economic growth and sustainable development.DocumentThe social uses of livestock among pastoralists in Sudan: food systems, stores of value, wealth, power, and authority
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014The impact of livestock on the economy of Sudan and its social uses within the pastoral sector are of great importance in the future development of the country. The role of livestock is that of a food system and store of value, wealth, power, and authority in areas where pastoralists practice their daily life without being reached by modern banking systems and market economy.DocumentValue of insect pollinators to Himalayan agricultural economies
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012This study assesses the economic value of pollination services, especially by insect pollinators, to agriculture in selected areas of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region in order to highlight the need for initiatives to address the problem.DocumentTowards a framework for achieving food security in the mountains of Pakistan
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2014This working paper outlines a mountain-specific framework for addressing food security in the mountains of Pakistan. It builds on efforts by ICIMOD together with the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) and the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) to understand the special issues of food security and find solutions in the mountain areas of Pakistan.DocumentRevisiting the global food crisis: magnitude, causes, impact and policy options
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010The brief period of the 21st century has been marked by a drastic intensification of the global food crisis. The phenomenal surge in fuel and food prices followed by the on-going economic crisis have worked in tandem to increasingly deprive the poor across the world, particularly in the Global South, from their fundamental right to food.DocumentRice self-sufficiency: is it feasible?
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012Rice self-sufficiency has long captivated public imagination in the Philippines. This Policy Note assesses whether the rice self-sufficiency target can be attained and sustained at reasonable cost. The assessment is based on two approaches: first is comparison with past trends; second is comparison with projections of demand and supply.DocumentPolicy coordination for food security: the case of the ASEAN Rice Trade Forum
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012Rice is the most important staple crop in Asia. Rice is regarded not merely as a source of food and livelihood, but also a political commodity and barometer of state legitimacy. Intervention in rice markets is therefore the status quo.Pages