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Urban poverty in Bangladesh: the perspective of the Nutritional Surveillance Project
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002How can the rising numbers of people living in extreme poverty in the slums of towns and cities in Bangladesh they be raised from poverty?DocumentUrban challenges to food and nutrition security
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This research centre holds information from IFPRI's research program Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security.DocumentEnhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000This document reports on the DFID/NRI/FRI workshop on food security.DocumentWorking women in an urban setting: traders, vendors, and food security in Accra
International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999Despite lower incomes and additional demands on their time as housewives and mothers, female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households.DocumentWages of war, wages of peace: food prices and unskilled labour pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002
Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2002This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the period 1996-2002, based on information systematically collected weekly by WFP in all major cities (Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Heart, Mazar-e-Sharif and Faizabad). The main conclusion of the study are: Large fluctuations have been registered in food prices.DocumentAssessing urban food security: adjusting the FEWS rural vulnerability assessment framework to urban environments
Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2000This paper aims to sensitize FEWS field staff to urban food security issues and to build their capacity to guide, design, and implement urban vulnerability assessments (VAs) and food security monitoring.DocumentRelief through development: maize market liberalisation in urban Kenya (MSU)
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999DocumentUrban Agriculture in Drylands: articles from Arid Lands Newsletter
Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1997Series of articles on importance of urban agriculture in areas subject to desertification.DocumentUrban maize meal consumption patterns: strategies for improving food access for vulnerable urban households in Kenya
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1995This report examines maize consumption patterns in response to policy changes in Kenya and the implications for urban food security. It is based on empirical evidence from a household survey. The researchers’ five conclusions challenge conventional assumptions about fixed consumer tastes and preferences in relation to agriculture policy.DocumentUrban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000Substantial abstract of a report studying the impact of urban life on the livelihoods, food security, and nutritional status of the poor in Accra. Examines food consumption and employment and income, as well as hygiene practices, sanitation conditions, and practices related to the care and feeding of children to determine their contributions to malnutrition.Pages
