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Creating a sustainable food future: A menu of solutions to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013With population growth and development creating ever-more demand for food (noted here as comprising two-thirds and one-third a function of the increase respectively), humanity faces a growing food gap between what will be needed in 2050, and what can sustainably be produced.DocumentDiversifying Food and Diets: Using agricultural biodiversity to improve nutrition and health
Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2013This book addresses the biodiversity dimensions of the challenge of eradicating hunger and malnutrition and makes the case for re-examining food systems and diets.DocumentReality checks in Mozambique. Building better understanding of the dynamics of poverty and well-being. Sub-report Lago. Year three.
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2013The “Reality Checks in Mozambique” are expected to: Inform the public discussion among key development actors on poverty reduction, especially in the province of Niassa; Contribute to a better understanding of qualitative poverty monitoring methods in Mozambique; Provide Sweden with relevant qualitative data on developments and results from its engagement in Mozambique and support fDocumentClimate variability and gender: Emerging experiences from Western Zambia
Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013This paper uses Sesheke district in Western Zambia as a case study on climate variability and gender and relates it to how the livelihoods of natural resource dependent women and men have been affected.DocumentFuture diets: Implications for agriculture and food prices
Overseas Development Institute, 2014This report addresses three sets of questions on diets:DocumentAgriculture and nutrition in Pakistan: pathways and disconnects
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2013This paper analyses the pathways and disconnects between agriculture and nutrition in the context of Pakistan, using a framework developed by theTackling the Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India (TANDI) research programme.DocumentChild labour in cocoa farming in Cote D’Ivorie
Global March Against Child Labour, 2013The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, a West African nation is the leading supplier of cocoa accounting for more than 40 percent of global production. However this production is undertaken using child labour.DocumentDirty cotton - a research on child labour, slavery, trafficking and exploitation in cotton and cotton seed farming in India
Global March Against Child Labour, 2012The introduction of genetically modified or BT cotton in India has increased the demand for cheap labour. Recognising the need to understand and address the growing concern over the engagement of children in the cotton industry in India, this study examines the issue of child labour in four cotton and cotton seed growing states in – Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and MaharashtraDocumentAmazonia Security Agenda: Strengthening the water, energy, food and health security nexus in the region and beyond
Global Canopy Programme, 2013Amazonia’s abundant natural resources underpin water, energy, food and health security for the people and economies of the region and far beyond. At the heart of this nexus of securities is water. So abundant in the region, but now under increasing threat as industrial and agricultural pollution increases, and extreme droughts reveal a once unthinkable water vulnerability.DocumentClimate Variability and its Implications on Rural Household Food Security in Nigeria
International Centre for Integrated Development Research, 2013This study explores climate variability and its implications on rural household food security in Nigeria. The main aim is the assessment of the impact of the below normal rainfall and drought on food security in Nigeria.Pages