Can small farms and small food businesses in Northern Europe contribute to sustainable food security?
There is widespread acknowledgement and appreciation in Northern Europe of the important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity, and maintaining traditional landscapes, rural traditions and cultural heritage. The EU-funded SALSA project set out to examine...
将性别观点纳入主流,以实现可持续的土壤管理
缩小获得生产性资源和服务的性别差距对于实现零饥饿世界至关重要。 这次在线讨论旨在收集广泛的利益相关者对性别平等,可持续土壤管理和粮食安全之间关系的看法。
Monitoring food security in countries with conflict situations
The report provides an overview of the magnitude, severity and drivers of acute food insecurity in eight countries and regions that have the world’s highest burden of people in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance as a result of protracted conflict combined with other factors...
Food security and armed conflict: a cross-country analysis
The report analyses the relation between conflict and food security, using country-level data that cover 106 countries in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America between 1961 and 2011. The results highlight the negative correlation between conflict and food security, illustrating how certain...
Combined effects and synergies between agricultural and social protection interventions: what is the evidence so far?
This publication identifies interactions between agricultural and social protection interventions and shows the positive impacts of combined programmes on income diversification, food security and poverty reduction.
Agriculture, food and jobs in West Africa
This paper quantifies and describes the structure of employment in the food economy across four broad segments of activities: agriculture, processing, marketing and food-away-from home. It also examines some of the emerging spatial implications, in particular rural-urban linkages and rural...
消除极端贫困:农业能发挥怎样的作用?
我们邀请各位参加本次在线讨论,探讨有关极端贫困与粮食不安全之间相互关系的问题。
饥饿与贫困密切相关,这一点毋庸置疑,但应对饥饿和极端贫困的政策和举措却往往各自为政,只着眼其中一个方面。
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017
The report warns that the greater number of conflicts, whose impacts are often exacerbated by climate-related shocks, is one of the main drivers behind the fact that after steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger appears to be on the rise once more. This is threatening to derail the...
Agriculture in Africa—Telling Myths from Facts: A Synthesis
Stylized facts drive research agendas and policy debates. Yet robust stylized facts are hard to come by, and when available, often outdated. In a special issue of Food Policy, 12 papers revisit conventional wisdom on African agriculture and its farmers’ livelihoods using nationally representative...