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Not just where we live, but how we live: addressing urban food and nutrition security
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Urban policy-makers in developing countries face a growing problem. By 2020, the number of people in the developing world will grow from 5 billion to 7 billion, with 90 per cent of this growth occurring in cities and towns. The sheer volume of people will compromise the ability of the cities to meet basic needs, resulting in an increase of urban poverty, hunger and malnutrition.DocumentForever facing famine? Rethinking food insecurity in Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Why is hunger worsening in Africa while elsewhere food shortages are lessening? Is Africa’s persistent food insecurity primarily the result of bad government or failure at a household level? How could public and private actors work together to improve the production, marketing and consumption of food?DocumentChild growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia
World Bank, 2003This paper reports on a study which addresses the challenges of child stunting in Ethiopia. At present, the report notes that stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at around 60 percent since the early 1980s and is among the highest in the world.DocumentAchieving urban food and nutrition security in the developing world
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000This edition of 2020 Focus broadly addresses the issue of urban food insecurity and malnutrition.It offers insights into the urgency of the situation and some of the main policy issues.DocumentWomen and children getting by in urban Accra
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003This paper reports on efforts by the Accra Urban Food and Nutrition Study (AUFNS) to help to illuminate the essence of urban poverty, the limiting factors on urban livelihoods, and the particular effect of women's education, work and childcare on child nutritional status in the city.Findings:the rise of urban poverty implies that policymakers must broaden their focus beyond the more traDocumentDar es Salaam: urban livelihood security assessment
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003This profile reports on an assessment by IFPRI and CARE of a number of impoverished neighbourhoods in Dar es Salaam towards the ultimate goal of targeting assistance to the poor more efficiently.DocumentEthiopia: the urban food-for-work project
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002This paper reports on the successes and shortfalls of CARE Ethiopia's Urban Food-for-Work program (UFFW).DocumentGhana: the Accra urban food and nutrition study
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002This paper reports on an IFPRI analysis of urban food and nutrition security in Accra, conducted with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana and the WHO.The main goal of the research project was to determine how the strategies employed by the urban poor to secure their livelihoods affect households’ food security, the care of children, and their resulting health and nutritDocumentThe situation of children in Iraq
United Nations Children's Fund, 2003This report describes the political and socio-economic context of Iraq, the causes of increased infant mortality since the end of the 1980s, and the efforts made by UNICEF to improve child and maternal nutrition, health and sanitation.DocumentDoes subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.Pages