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Contribution of Himalayan ecosystems to water, energy, and food security in South Asia: a nexus approach
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012In the face of climatic and other socioeconomic changes, most South Asian countries having large and growing population, limited land resources, and increasing water stress face a common challenge of how to grow more food with the same or less land, less water, and increased energy prices.DocumentThe Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw
GRID Arendal, 2013The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.OrganisationAssociation of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA)
The Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture is a nine-member alliance focused on increasing global food security by supporting smallholder agriculture within hOrganisationLeveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA)
LANSA is a research partnership working together to find out how agriculture and agri-food systems can be better designed to improve nutrition.DocumentTransforming aquatic agricultural systems towards gender equality: a five country review
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012Aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) are systems in which the annual production dynamics of freshwater and/or coastal ecosystems contribute significantly to total household income.DocumentHow the people of Indonesia live with climate change and what communication can do
BBC Media Action, 2013This report is part of a series from Climate Asia, worldwide study of people’s everyday experience of climate change in seven Asian countries – Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam. The project surveyed 33,500 people across the seven countries, including 4,985 households in Indonesia where research was conducted from February to October 2012.DocumentGrowing disruption: climate change, food, and the fight against hunger
Oxfam, 2013This briefing paper explores how the failure to tackle climate change threatens all aspects of food security – availability, access, utilisation, and stability. The changing climate is already jeopardising gains in the fight against hunger, and the authors argue that looks set to worsen.DocumentRural poverty and Food insecurity mapping at district level for improved agricultural water management in the Limpopo River Basin
Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2013The purposes of this paper are to: 1) Identify areas in the Limpopo River Basin with high levels of rural poverty and food insecurity; 2) Identify areas where agricultural water management (AWM) interventions are taking place; andDocumentSituational analysis of indigenous social institutions and their role in rural livelihoods: the case of selected food insecure lowland areas of Southern Ethiopia
2013Close examination and analysis of these social institutions is very important not only from the household economic point of view but also because of its significant role in other livelihood aspects. The data for this study was collected from 453 household heads that were selected through a random sampling technique.DocumentFinal report. FOKUS: External evaluation of the East African Program for the Empowerment of Grassroot Women (EAGWEN).
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013Norwegian Women and Family Association (NWF) has a history of supporting organisations whose main focus is on vulnerable groups.Pages