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This may indeed be necessary, but handing out food may not be the best solution, and other actions could be equally urgent, such as public health or income-support measures. Food Scarcity and Famine provides a new approach to […] View resource Book No Time to Waste: Poverty and the global environment 01/01/1992 6 documents 224 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Development methods Food security Land rights Water and sanitation Overview The world faces two contrasting crises: one fifth of its people live in poverty while a quarter enjoy lifestyles of profligate consumption. A deteriorating environment links them both. It is increasingly clear that environmental problems cannot be solved without full consideration of the process of development, the results of which are so often destructive rather […] View resource Journal article Calculating food-aid cost-effectiveness: Evidence from Ethiopia 01/11/1991 8 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Food security World Bank and IMF Overview These Notes are based on research carried out as part of a World Bank/World Food Programme study into food aid in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors use economic analyses to establish a framework for considering the cost-effectiveness of food aid compared to financial aid, and they apply this framework to the Wollaita food aid project. Food […] View resource Journal article The impact of food aid on cereal and livestock prices in Red Sea Province, The Sudan: 1980-1989 01/05/1991 11 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 Development methods DiP Food security Overview Drought-induced inflation of cereal prices and the consequent turning of the terms of trade against livestock upset existing exchange entitlements and contributed to higher than normal mortality rates among the rural Beja populations in Red Sea Province in the early to mid-1980s. The Beja are agropastoralists who raise goats and sheep, and sow some sorghum. […] View resource Journal article Famine and human rights 01/05/1991 7 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 security Overview Famine is clearly and undeniably a terrible wrong, and famine is preventable. The occurrence of famine is an indictment of the ethics of the country in which it has occurred. Despite this, those claiming to represent ethical concerns in general and human rights in particular have had little impact on either understanding famine or dealing […] View resource Book Cereal Banks – At Your Service?: The story of Toundeu-Patar: A village somewhere in the Sahel 01/01/1991 1 documents 57 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Finance Food security Overview Food security is one of the major concerns of people living in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, cereal banks have become a widespread and popular response to the problem. View resource Discussion paper War and Famine in Africa 01/11/1990 1 documents 40 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters Food security Protection Overview Up to half of all the people who suffer from food insecurity in Africa have been affected by war. Local conflict is a long-term and growing problem, made worse by the continent’s shrinking resource base. In War And Famine In Africa, Mark Duffield shows how internal wars are fought on a terrain of semi-subsistence economies, […] View resource Book Measuring Drought and Drought Impacts in Red Sea Province 01/12/1989 6 documents 324 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters Food security Overview Measuring Drought and Drought Impacts in Red Sea Province gathers together papers written by researchers based in Port Sudan working on nutrition and the measurement of drought and drought recovery in Red Sea Province, Sudan. A key aspect of this work was to provide reliable information on the environment and economy from an historical basis […] View resource Book Cities of Hunger: Urban malnutrition in developing countries 01/01/1988 1 documents 128 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Food security Maternal and child health Social protection Overview By the end of the century, half the world’s population will live in cities, so the need to improve the conditions of life of the urban poor is becoming increasingly urgent. A specific problem for poor city-dwellers, which to date has been under-researched, is that of providing sufficient food for themselves and their children. Cities […] View resource Book Common Ground: How changes in the common agricultural policy affect the third world poor 01/01/1987 1 documents 101 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Fair trade Food security Overview The picture of mounting European food surpluses set against the constant spectre of Third World food shortages is a familiar one. But the cost of these surpluses and their effect on world trade is leading to increasing pressure for change in the European Community’s agricultural policies. View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know