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Irrespective of who we are or where we are on the planet, the food we eat is made available by this global food system. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, […] View resource Evaluation report Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Progress Report, July 2011 – July 2012 05/07/2012 3 documents 32 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Cash transfers Disasters Drought Food prices Food production Food reserves Food security Refugees and IDPs Overview The 2011 drought across the Horn of Africa was, in some places, the worst to hit the region for 60 years. Three countries were hit by the drought: Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Early in July 2011, Oxfam launched a massive public appeal for funds – the largest in its history – across several countries. Oxfam […] View resource Journal article Designing food security projects: Kapchorwa and Bukwo, Uganda 01/05/2012 12 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Development in Practice Journal DiP Food production Food security Gender-based programmes Women farmers Overview Food security is a key aspect of human development. The present article explores the shortcomings of agricultural interventions in two districts in eastern Uganda. Our study shows that these interventions have achieved only minor successes in relieving rural poverty and strengthening food security. Programmes that support prominent farmers with the aim of commercial development are […] View resource Journal article Farmer field schools for integrated watershed management 01/02/2012 14 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Food production Livelihoods Overview The present article reviews the adaptation of the popular farmer field school (FFS) approach to integrated watershed management in several Indonesian provinces, under the auspices of a major environmental management project. Indonesia is the site of origin of the FFS concept, developed to promote integrated pest management (IPM) in rice during the 1980s. Since the […] View resource Research report Women’s Collective Action in Agricultural Markets: Synthesis of preliminary findings from Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania 01/10/2011 1 documents 57 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Civil society Co-operatives Collective enterprise Economic empowerment Fair trade Food prices Food production Livelihoods Natural resources Smallholder agriculture Social enterprise Value chains WEL Women farmers Women's Economic Leadership Overview This paper presents an analytical framework and preliminary findings from the second phase of the Researching Women’s Collective Action project. It documents participatory field research in Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania, covering 15 agricultural sub-sectors. Findings are reported on women smallholders’ motivations and capacities to engage in collective action, as well as on gender-based patterns and […] View resource Journal article How to strengthen the development effectiveness of local purchase for food aid 01/09/2011 16 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Food prices Food production Food security Markets Overview Taking the case of Burkina Faso, the paper analyses effects of local purchase on marginal producers. It argues that because of imports of food together with ‘distress sales’ on the part of the producers, perfect market conditions do not exist. Therefore market price does not equal the optimal price. In the absence of an optimal […] View resource Journal article Attitude counts: engaging with rice farmers in West Africa 01/08/2011 15 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Capacity building Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Food production Livelihoods Training Overview An international project called PADS promoted participatory learning and action research with inland valley rainfed rice farmers in West Africa. All countries received the same training, similar funding, and the same leadership. Although the staff in Ghana were conscientious and gave much training to the farmer beneficiaries, the Mali staff explicitly encouraged farmers to experiment. […] View resource Journal article Two agricultural shocks in the former USSR, 60 years apart 29/06/2011 12 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Co-operatives Food production Trade policy Overview Besides wars and revolution, Russia and its neighbours suffered two major agricultural shocks in the last century: the collectivisation crisis of 1929–33 and the collapse of the collective farms in the 1990s. Both were in some sense policy-induced and linked with sharp declines in agricultural terms of trade. The crises were connected by the historical […] View resource Journal article Revisiting the impact of economic crisis on Indonesian agro-food production 25/06/2011 12 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Food prices Food production Food security Markets Overview This article discusses the impact of the ongoing global economic crisis on the Indonesian agro-food sector. It compares the current situation with the crisis of 1997–98 and examines whether the liberalisation of the Indonesian economy (and the agro-food sector specifically) in the post-1999 period has increased the exposure of Indonesian food producers and consumers to […] View resource Journal article Combating the menace of food insecurity: the experience of West Bengal 24/06/2011 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Food production Food security Overview The Indian government is implementing a package of food-based safety-net programmes to resist disastrous food insecurity. Crucial programmes are (1) the Targeted Public Distribution Scheme, (2) the wage-employment programme (direct cash transfer as wages), and (3) a number of direct nutrition programmes for feeding children. This article explores the implementation of these programmes at district […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know