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Agriculture and Food Security

The Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction (VPR) team’s research and advisory work on agriculture and food security covers a number of issues. These include land rights, livelihoods and food insecurity and linkages between fair trade producers and the mainstream supermarkets.

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The Future Agricultures Consortium, a major research programme hosted by IDS, is looking at the interaction between agricultural growth and social protection. Many of the projects within the agriculture and food security theme focus on the causes of extreme poverty and its particular effects in the rural context. This work also relates to the examination of famine and how in the technologically advanced twenty-first century it still persists.

AFSPAN (Aquaculture for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition)

Aquaculture is widely considered as important for enhancing food security, alleviating poverty and improving nutrition. However, little information is available concerning the direct and indirect impacts of aquaculture on food security and poverty alleviation in most developing countries and LIFDCs. More details

Higher Level Panel of Eexperts Report on Social Protection and Food Security

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested the HLPE to produce a report, to be presented at the 39th Session of the CFS, a study on social protection and food security. More details

Impact Evaluation of the PSNP and HAPB 2012

Since 2003, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has been implementing a new Food Security Programme (FSP). In 2009, this programme was reviewed and reformulated. More details

Resilience, Adaptability, and Transformability of Fishing Communities in the Face of the World Fisheries Crisis

This project is a response to the initial DFID-ESRC 'Resource scarcity, growth, and poverty reduction' call and it is titled "Tangled in their (own) safety-nets?: Resilience, adaptability, and transformability of fishing communities in the face of the World fisheries crisis. More details

WFP-Ethiopia Meret Impact Evaluation

The World Food Programme (WFP) Ethiopia has requested TANGO and IDS to assess the evaluability of conducting an impact evaluation of the long-standing WFP programme in Ethiopia More details

Nutritious Agriculture by Design: A Tool for Program Planning - a GAIN-IDS Discussion Paper

 (2013)
Henson, S., Humphrey, J. and McClafferty, B.

Heifer-in-trust, Social Protection and Graduation: Conceptual Issues and Emperical Questions

 Development Policy Review 31.3 (2013)
Sumberg, J. and Lankoande, G.D.

Global Implications of Somalia 2011 for Famine Prevention, Mitigation and Response

 Global Food Security Special Issue on the Somalia Famine of 2011-2012 (2012)
Haan, N., Devereux, S. and Maxwell, D.

Vulnerability and Adaptation of African rural populations to Climate Change: the Case of Fishers’ Communities in the Central Delta of Niger

Climate Change 3-4.115 (2012)
Morand, P., Kodio, A., Andrew, N., Lemoalle, J. and Béné, C.

Public Agronomy: Norman Borlaug as 'brand hero' for the Green Revolution

 Journal of Development Studies 48.11 (2012)
Sumberg, J., Keeney D. and Dempsey, B.

Quick Money and Power: Young People, Tomato Production and Livelihood Building in Brong Afafo, Ghana

 43.6 (2012)
Okali, C. and Sumberg, J.

Mind the (yield) gaps(s)

 Food Security 4.4 (2012)
Sumberg, J.

Response to "Combining Sustainable Agricultural Production with Economic and Environmental Benefits".

 The Geographical Journal doi: 10.1111/j (2012)
Sumberg, J., Andersson, J, Giller, K. and Thompson, J

The Young People and Agriculture "problem" in Africa

 IDS Bulletin 43.6 (2012)
Sumberg, J., Anyidoho, N.A., Leavy, J.,te Lintelo, D and Wellard, K.

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