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Update on the enjoyment of the right to food and water in India
FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 2004This report establishes that the Government of India is failing to respect, protect and fulfil its peoples’ right to adequate food and water even though it has signed and ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.The report illustrates how the State’s domestic policies and activities repeatedly violate vulnerable communities’ right to adequate food.DocumentSecuring enough to eat
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005This paper explores how different definitions of food security have come to be associated with different ways of realising the objective of food security.DocumentNew risks and opportunities for food security: scenario analyses for 2015 and 2050
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005This paper presents three scenarios of different food security policy alternatives, involving varying risks and opportunities: a progressive policy actions scenario, a policy failure scenario, and a technology and natural resource management failure scenario.DocumentFamine and the future of food security in North Korea
Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2005This report examines North Korea’s insistence on food self-sufficiency by outlining its history and exploring the causes of its recent famine and the deep roots of its self-sufficiency or juche ideology.DocumentFood sovereignty: turning the global food system upside down
GRAIN, 2005This short briefing paper provides an overview of the food sovereignty conceptual framework.Food sovereignty is an alternative to the current mainstream thinking on food production. The concept behind food sovereignty contrasts the neo-liberal approach that believes that international trade will solve the world’s food problem.DocumentStrengthening food insecurity and vulnerability information management in Lesotho: FIVIMS assessment report
Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems, 2005This paper presents the results from the food insecurity and vulnerability information management (FIVIMS) Assessment in Lesotho.DocumentRethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development
Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005This paper, published in the Public Library of Science Medicine, examines the global health effects of economic development, focusing on cardiovascular diseases and their nutritional risk factors, including overweight and obesity, elevated blood pressure, and cholesterol.DocumentMainstreaming ICTs - achieving the Millennium Development Goals: food security and hunger
OneWorld.net, 2005This edition of Mainstreaming ICTs – Achieving the MDGs focuses on food security in India.DocumentDevelopment strategies and food and nutrition security in Africa: an assessment
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This paper evaluates international, regional and local strategies and policies in Africa, in relation to food and nutrition security. The paper argues that whilst numerous strategies have been implemented, Africa is still far from achieving food and nutrition security. The paper looks at the way strategies were implemented and why the results have been so variable and often lacking.