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Journal Article
11 January 2016
Macro Events and Micro Responses: Experiences from Bolivia and Guatemala
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
For Bolivia and Guatemala, the 2007–08 food price crisis contributed to a slowdown in the economy and increased unemployment. For the...
Journal Article
11 January 2016
‘Tell Me What You Eat and I’ll Tell You Who You Are’: Changing Eating Habits in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This article describes changes in the lives of families in two communities in the Cochabamba Region, Bolivia, caused in part by food...
Journal Article
4 January 2016
Why Participation Matters: Communal Drinking Water Management in Bolivia and Ecuador
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In the past 30 years, Drinking Water Users' Associations (DWUAs) have emerged in peri‐urban and rural areas in Bolivia and Ecuador...
Publication
1 April 2014
Gender in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
Published by: GSDRC
This rapid review collates a large amount of literature published in 2013 and 2014 (up to April 2014) on the topic of gender in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS). It is not a systematic or exhaustive review, but does provide a comprehensive overview of the literature available
Report
23 May 2013
Squeezed – Highlights from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 Results
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
This document is the highlights report for the first year results of a four-year study on how food price volatility affects everyday life find important changes in people's wellbeing and development.
Book
23 May 2013
Squeezed – Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 Results
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
The first year results of a four-year study on how food price volatility affects everyday life find important changes in people's wellbeing and development.
Project
Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility
Researching the impacts of, and responses to, volatile food prices in poor communities in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Vietnam and Zambia.
Project
Programme Partnership between Irish Aid and IDS on Hunger Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Four years on from Irish Aid's landmark Hunger Task Force Report, hunger reduction remains an enormous challenge. This will become more difficult in the context of resource scarcity, climate change, and an increased demand for food in the emerging economies.
Publication
3 January 2011
Recent Trends in Disaster Impacts on Child Welfare and Development 1999-2009
This study presents a novel way to separately investigate trends during the past decade regarding the impact of extensive and intensive disasters on child welfare and development. Studies covered a broad variety of countries located in different geographical regions and exposed to different types of hazard.