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Getting out of the food crisis
GRAIN, 2008The current food crisis is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. In this edition of GRAIN's Seedling magazine, a collection of articles highlight the less discussed aspects of the food crisis and responses to it.DocumentTowards food sovereignty: reclaiming autonomous food systems
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008Throughout the world, social movements are the driving force behind a new food sovereignty policy framework, which aims to guarantee and protect people’s space, ability and right to define their own models of production, food distribution and consumption patterns.DocumentAgri-food system dynamics: pathways to sustainability in an era of uncertainty
STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2007This document examines the key issues surrounding agri-food system dynamics and sustainability.DocumentThe future control of food: a guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectual property, biodiversity and food security
International Development Research Centre, 2008In today's world, access to food is highly, and unacceptably, uneven. There is massive overproduction and over-consumption, yet millions experience scarcity and hunger. This book looks at some of the forces and rules shaping the food system and who has control over it.DocumentSpecial ministerial event on food security and sustainable development in small island developing states
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005This paper presented to a special FAO ministerial session in 2005 outlines policies for food security in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) based around three main criteria:food availability – depends on domestic food production or food importation, with vulnerability to, respectively, macro-economic factors or natural disastersfood access – depends on the availability of income toDocumentEradicating hunger: moving from pilot projects to national programmes
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004This paper discusses issues which developing countries may wish to consider when deciding to expand food security programmes to a national scale, in response to their commitments at the 1996 World Food Summit.The author notes that if fast progress is to be made in hunger reduction, this will normally require simultaneous large-scale action along two main tracks.DocumentLivestock production: the twenty first century's food revolution
Livestock Research for Rural Development, 2004This paper discusses the donor community's role in securing a poverty oriented commercialisation of livestock production in the developing world.The author notes that the global food market is undergoing major changes, especially in the developing world.DocumentPhilippine onion farmers profit from integrated pest management technology
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003This paper discusses the impact of integrated pest management (IPM) technology on onion farmers in the Philippines.DocumentThe differential effects on rural income and poverty during a decade of radical change in Malawi
BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004This paper reports on a study of rural families in a densely populated area of Malawi, tracking how families have moved up or down in relation to income and welfare from 1986 to 1997. The timing of the study was significant, as major liberalisation policies affecting small-holders were put into place from 1987 onwards.