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Food aid: how effective is it?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002The international organisation of food security is in disarray. How has this happened? New research on food aid by the Overseas Development Institute, ODI, makes clear the seriousness of the issue. Tackling hunger is crucial to the international targets for reducing poverty.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?DocumentAid without accountability? North Korea challenges humanitarian principles
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Can the humanitarian community use food to leverage recalcitrant authoritarian regimes into being more open? North Korea presents an acute dilemma for humanitarians determined to uphold minimum standards of accountability.DocumentThe sanctions bombshell - rising child mortality in Iraq
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Until the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq's social and economic development was rapid and impressive. These gains were abruptly halted and reversed by the war and the ensuing economic sanctions. How has this affected the health of Iraqi children? Has the United Nations (UN) 'Oil for Food' programme improved the child mortality rate?DocumentAndhra Pradesh: the land is ours
OpenDemocracy, 2003This article argues that, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, local farmers are under pressure to embrace a future of large-scale monoculture producing crops for the global market.DocumentSeeds for survival - supplying seeds in an emergency
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Natural disasters and war wreak havoc on the economies of developing countries. Since 1980, for example, all ten countries in the Greater Horn of Africa have experienced drought or armed conflict. In recent years, people have asked: what is the best form of aid in such situations?DocumentTrouble in the air for food production as urban pollution hits rural development
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Concern over air pollution has traditionally been focused on urban situations.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 traPages