Zimbabwe: '1.3 Million People Will Need Food Aid' . allAfrica. 11 October 2010
More than 1,3 million Zimbabweans will need food aid between January and March 2011, a senior Government official has said. Speaking at the launch of the Promoting Recovery in Zimbabwe project in...
View ArticleUN Turns Focus on Global Hunger. allafrica. 12 October 2010.
Delegates from NGOs, civil society, private sector and philanthropic representatives have gathered in Rome for week-long United Nations-led talks to trash out solutions for global hunger. The talks...
View ArticleFood safety agency will aid exports. BusinessDay. 13 October 2010.
President Jacob Zuma ’s recent visit to Europe has made it vital for the government to urgently establish a food safety agency to issue certificates for processed products exported to the European...
View ArticleAfrican governments urged to invest more in rural infrastructure. Afrique en...
The Director-General of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr. Peter Hartmann, has urged African leaders to give more attention to the development of rural...
View ArticleAs World Food Day approaches, NGOs warn of increase in land grabs....
Suppose that, one day, a foreign investor decided to buy a vast tract of fertile land in the United States, with support of the American government. Suppose all that is grown or produced in that land,...
View ArticlePope, Diouf: “United Against Hunger”. FAO Media Centre. 15 October 2010.
On the occasion of this year’s World Food Day, Pope Benedict XVI, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf called for global unity to find resolute and concrete actions...
View ArticleEnding Africa's Hunger Means Listening to Farmers. IPS. 16 October 2010.
Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished. Now, for the first-time, small African farmers have been properly consulted on how to solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their...
View ArticleNourishing a Budding Sustainable Agriculture Movement . IPS. 15 October 2010.
With a record number of people undernourished last year – and that number only down about 10 percent this year – this year's World Food Day, to take place Saturday, carries with it a new sense of...
View ArticleCFS calls for action against food price volatility and hunger. Food crisis...
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has called for action on key issues related to food security and nutrition such as land tenure and international investment in agriculture, food price...
View ArticleAfrica: UN Forum in the Doldrums. allAfrica. 05 November 2010.
Dark clouds are hovering over a nutrition forum which for the past 30 years has brought UN agencies, NGOs and academics together to help shape policy and programmes on minimum standards in terms of...
View ArticleKenya picked for new EU food safety training. Business Daily. 19 November 2010.
Fish, fresh produce and tea firms are set to benefit from a new European Union support meant to safeguard markets by meeting safety rules. The project, whose delegation is in Nairobi, is run by EDES,...
View ArticleEU-Africa Summit: Nutrition must be put at Heart of Africa’s Food Security...
Three days before the EU-Africa Summit, Jay Naidoo, Chairman of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and former Chairperson of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), will hold a...
View ArticleCan Research Strike a Balance Between Food and Fuel Crops? IPS. 30 September...
While researchers and farmers are still divided on the benefits of growing crops for biofuel production as Africa grapples with food security, Senegal is steadily working to balance the growing demands...
View ArticleMALAWI Food Security Outlook Update - November 2010. The Famine Early Warning...
Maize availability and low market prices improve outlook for the lean season.
View ArticleFood or Fuel – The Role of Agrofuels in the Rush for Land (pdf)
2014/07 - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA); GIGA Focus International Edition English 05/2014; Authors: Kerstin Nolte et al.
View ArticleTurning Rapid Growth into Meaningful Growth: Sustaining the Commitment to...
2014/09 - Institute of Development Studies (IDS); Authors: Harris, J., et. al
View ArticleThirsty, hungry and no power? : African resources in a global world
2014 – The Nordic Africa Institute; Author: Oestigaard, Terje
View ArticleHidden Hunger in South Africa: The Faces of Hunger and Malnutrition in a...
2014/10 - Oxfam Policy and Practice; Authors: Teka Tsegay et. al
View ArticleReframing Undernutrition: Faecally-Transmitted Infections and the 5 As
2014/10 Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Authors: Chambers, R. and von Medeazza, G
View ArticleThe Impact of Food Price Volatility on Consumer Welfare in Cameroon
2015/01 - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER); Authors: Gilles Quentin Kane, Gwladys Laure Mabah Tene, Jean Joël Ambagna, Isabelle Piot-lepetit, and...
View ArticleA Body-Political Approach to the Study of Food – Vietnam and the Global...
Project - Institut für Internationale Entwicklung (IE); Period: 2015-2017; Project Co-ordinator: Judith Ehlert
View ArticleCall for Proposal: Food & Business Applied Research Fund (ARF)
2015/01 - The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - WOTRO Science for Global Development (NWO-WOTRO); Call for Proposal; Deadline: 12 May 2015
View ArticleFood gardens in Uganda: A Contribution to Capacity Development and...
2014/08 - Kommission fuer Entwicklungsfragen (KEF); Project 197: Mid-term Report; Project Lead: Petra C. Braun
View ArticleThe Sustainable Development Goals of the Post-2015 Agenda: Comments on the...
2015/02 - German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE); Revised version, 26 February 2015; Editors: Markus Loewe, Nicole Rippin
View ArticleModelling Indian Wheat and Rice Sector Policies (pdf)
2015/03 - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF); ZEF Discussion Papers No. 197; Authors: Marta Kozicka et al.
View ArticleFood for the Many Mouths of Africa
2015/03 - The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - WOTRO Science for Global Development (NWO-WOTRO); Research Case
View ArticleSahel Strategies: Why Coordination is Imperative
2015/03 – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM); Contributing Document; Authors: Helly, D. et al.
View ArticleCall for Proposal: Food & Business Global Challenges Programme
2015/04 - The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - WOTRO Science for Global Development (NWO-WOTRO); Call for Proposal; Deadline: 23 June 2015
View ArticleBioenergy, Food Security and Poverty Reduction: Mitigating Tradeoffs and...
2014/07 - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF); Working Paper No.135; Authors: Alisher Mirzabaev et al.
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