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Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition
Overseas Development Institute, 2013Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?"DocumentCoping with a changing climate: considerations for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food security from the local to the global level as the unpredictability of weather conditions increases.DocumentPreliminary study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on discrimination in the context of the right to food
UN Human Rights Council, 2010This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010.DocumentInnovative approaches to gender and food security: insights, issue 82
Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s empowerment. They can focus on women’s critical role as food producers, consumers and family carers, while transforming gender norms and inequalities within households and communities.DocumentTechnologies for climate change adaptation: agriculture sector
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011The agriculture sector faces the challenge of providing adequate food to a growing world population. There is limited scope to expand arable land, and unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastrous events make food production even more challenging. This guidebook provides information on 22 technologies and options for adapting to climate change in the agriculture sector.DocumentState intervention for food price stabilisation in Africa: can it work?
Programme of Advisory and Support Services to DFID, 2005This paper discusses the options for the stabilisation of the prices of staple foods principally in Eastern and Southern Africa. It addresses three broad questions: Why is the stabilisation of food prices desirable? What is technically feasible?DocumentPolicy analysis for sustainable land management and food security in Ethiopia: a bioeconomic model with market imperfections
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005This research in the highlands of Ethiopia shows how poverty and land degradation can be reduced in a resource-constrained agricultural area. It uses a bioeconomic model to address how alternative policy options can affect poverty and land degradation.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.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.DocumentAgricultural price policy for developing countries
International Food Policy Research Institute, 1989This book, recently made available free online, focuses on agricultural price policy in the context of economic growth, specifically in relation to technological change.