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Climate Change, Food Security and Disaster Risk Management: Issues Paper for the Expert Meeting on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, FAO, Rome, 28-29 February 2008

Published by: IDS

This report states unequivocally the manifold evidence that climate change is occurring. Global average air temperatures are rising, with eleven of the last twelve years (1995-2006) ranking amongst the twelve warmest years in the instrumental record of global surface temperature.

Seasons of Hunger: Fighting Cycles of Starvation among the World’s Rural Poor

Every year, millions of the rural poor suffer from predictable and preventable seasonal hunger. This hunger is less dramatic but no less...

Transformative Social Protection: The Currency of Social Justice

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Social protection is fast becoming one of the most important themes in development policy. This collection examines the political processes shaping the formulation of social protection policies; compares the key conceptual frameworks available for analysing social protection; and provides a comparative discussion on the policies focused on the poor and the poorest.

Debating Social Protection

Published by: IDS

The rapid rise of social protection up the development policy agenda has been startling: it can achieve bigger development objectives, such as economic growth and the MDGs. Its predecessor 'social safety nets' was disparaged and attacked during the 1990s, and was then reborn as 'social protection' at the turn of the millennium.

Social Transfers

Vulnerability and Social Protection in Malawi

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Vulnerability appears to be rising for many Malawians, whose exposure to livelihood shocks is increasing while their ability to cope is decreasing. The first part of this report draws on recently published studies and analysis of the 2004/05 Integrated Household Survey dataset to explore the nature of vulnerability in Malawi.

Challenging Orthodoxies, Influencing Debates

Published by: IDS

What makes a classic IDS Bulletin article? Wandering through almost 40 years and 140 issues of the IDS Bulletin, some common features can be discerned. The most memorable IDS Bulletin articles challenge orthodoxy and present alternative perspectives on development issues.

PSNP Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) Trends in PSNP Transfers Within Targeted Households

Published by: IDS

Food insecurity in Ethiopia is normally understood in terms of recurrent food crises and famines, and responses to food insecurity have conventionally been dominated by emergency food-based interventions.

Employment creation programmes: the international experience

Published by: International Labour Office (ILO)

The role of productive employment in reducing poverty is by now widely recognized. But the experience of many developing countries seems...