While agriculture has been resilient to the health crisis in comparison with the service and industry sectors, the sector's resiliency is gradually being corroded by climate change, with lasting, harmful effects for agriculture and food systems
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Ethiopia has made consistent progress in improving development indicators, but vulnerability to extreme weather events is a continuing concern, especially for people reliant on agriculture for their livelihoods.
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Understanding household preferences on the production, consumption, and sale of nutritious crops
Value chains and agricultural commercialization are increasingly promoted as mechanisms for agricultural transformation, inclusive growth, and, more recently, improved food security and diets.
With Malawian diets heavily dominated by staple foods—maize first and foremost, but also rice and cassava in some areas—food security in Malawi is often equated with having access to enough maize.
How can the nutrition impactof agriculture programsbe assessed?
This report combines international evidence with new primary and secondary analyses of Malawian data to understand the different pathways linking agriculture, food security, and nutrition for households in Malawi and to illuminate different dimension
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Food and nutrition security implications of crop diversification in Malawi’s farm households
This chapter provides selected details from a study of the links between crop production diversity and dietary diversity among Malawian households.
This chapter reports on the links between household food consumption choices, food prices, and household income, using data from Malawi’s Second (2004–2005) and Third (2010–2011) Integrated Household Surveys.
This chapter provides selected findings from an assessment of whether increased use in the dry season of irrigated farming by smallholders in Malawi might improve household-level dietary diversity or child nutrition outcomes.
Although the Malawian food supply is shaped largely by trends in smallholder food crop production, Malawi’s decades-long focus on improving smallholder productivity has only moderately improved food security and nutrition outcomes.
This food policy report is a response to growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on Latin American economies, agriculture, and people.
This report investigates the under-explored role that local forms of social capital play in enhancing resilience.
Reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes through case studies of NGO initiatives
Policies and investments for poverty reduction and food security [in Arabic]
his report aims to inform and stimulate the debate on key policy priorities for poverty reduction and food security in light of the Arab Awakening. Its findings are based on an innovative combination of datasets and rigorous economic analysis.
En 2000, les leaders mondiaux ont défini l’objectif de réduire de moitié, entre 1990 et 2015, la proportion des personnes souffrant de la faim.
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Halving hunger
In 2000, the world’s leaders set a target of halving the percentage of hungry people between 1990 and 2015.
En el año 2000, los líderes del mundo establecieron la meta de reducir a la mitad el porcentaje de personas con hambre entre 1990 y 2015.
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Halving hunger
In 2000, the world’s leaders set a target of halving the percentage of hungry people between 1990 and 2015.