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Women livestock managers in the third world: a focus on technical [issues]
Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1994There has been a significant lack of understanding and of women's role in livestock production which has consequently been largely underestimated and ignored.This report examines women's technical knowledge of and involvement in livestock production in Asia, Africa and Latin America and provides guidelines on how these issues can be incorporated in IFAD's project cycle to the benefit of rural wDocumentSurvival, change and decision-making in rural households: three village case studies from eastern Morocco
Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1998This document presents the main findings of a study carried out between 1994 and 1995 in three villages in Eastern Morocco - each representative of a different environmental context.DocumentHousehold food security and the role of women: IFAD's experience in Guatemala
Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1998This paper reviews IFAD's activities in Guatemala and analyses their effects on household food security (HFS)and the status of women.DocumentFood for all: can hunger be halved
Panos Institute, London, 2001Report providing an introductory overview of issues in light of the FAO's gloomy predictions regarding the global target to halve poverty by 2015. With case studies throughout the paper looks at the connection between hunger and poverty and the policies that are supposed to reduce both.DocumentThe links between biodiversity and poverty
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001Poor people, especially those living in areas with low agricultural productivity, depend heavily and directly on genetic, species and ecosystem biodiversity to support their livelihoods. This support takes the shape of contributions to health and nutrition, reduced vulnerability, crop and stock development, and off-farm resource use.DocumentGender and participation in agricultural development planning: key issues from 10 case studies
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998Reviews ten case studies written about FAO field projects that tested methods and tools for gender-sensitive participatory agricultural policy making and planning. The projects' shared goal was to facilitate gender-responsive agricultural planning.DocumentThe determinants of livestock prices in Niger
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1995This article suggest that not only does livestock makes an important contribution to rural incomes and export earnings in the Sahel, it is also kept as insurance against weather risk.The article concludes that:fluctuations in livestock prices can trigger food entitlement failureslivestock prices respond to droughts and pasture availabilitylivestock prices are also exposed to aggDocumentSouth African Studies Network (Sussex)
Centre for the Comparative Study of Culture, Development and the Environment, Sussex University, 1999DocumentSocio-economic methods in natural resources research
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999