In 2009, high and volatile food prices combined with economic recession posed significant risks to poor and vulnerable households, with often dire consequences for their food security.
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"With high food prices threatening the food security of millions of vulnerable households around the world, hunger and malnutrition are back in the headlines.
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Women
The 1995 Beijing Platform for Action set goals for empowering women in developing nations.
While famines and other episodes of severe hunger receive significant press coverage and attract much public attention, chronic hunger and malnutrition are considerably more prevalent in Africa.
What can be done to increase the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa? This brief advocates a two-pronged approach.
"The premise of a rights-based approach to ensuring adequate food is empowering poor people and those who are food insecure.
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Strengthening Africa’s capacity to design and implement strategies for food and nutrition security
"Among the capacity-strengthening challenges the region faces are inadequate in-country capacity, institutional weaknesses, lack of multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving, expatriates’ limited incountry experience, poor governance, and fa
"The interactions between HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition insecurity are becoming clearer as research fills knowledge gaps.
In contrast to widely held uncertainties about Sub-Saharan Africa's ability to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), recent successes in African smallholder farming show that agriculture could play a key role in helping the region reach those
In more than a dozen African countries the rate of undernourishment is more than 40 percent, exceeding 50 percent in those countries experiencing or emerging from armed conflict.
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New and Noteworthy in Nutrition
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México - PROGRESA
For many of the world’s poor, public safety-net programs are the only hope for a life free from chronic poverty and undernutrition. But the proper combination of incentives and support can be difficult to achieve.
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Mexico - PROGRESA
For many of the world’s poor, public safety-net programs are the only hope for a life free from chronic poverty and undernutrition. But the proper combination of incentives and support can be difficult to achieve.
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Living in the city
Data from many countries show that the concentration of poverty and malnutrition is shifting from rural to urban areas.
El papel de la mujer en la economía se ha subestimado con frecuencia y su trabajo en la agricultura ha sido invisible por mucho tiempo.
This brief examines the key roles that women play in ensuring food security and makes three recommendations of ways to strengthen the food security through policies and programs that enhance women's abilities and resources to fulfill their ro
Le présent rapport de politique alimentaire présente la synthèse de la recherche actuelle sur les fonctions que les femmes remplissent pour garantir la sécurité alimentaire dans le monde en développement.