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The challenge of hunger: The 2008 Global Hunger Index
von Grebmer, Klaus; Fritschel, Heidi; Nestorova, Bella; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"With high food prices threatening the food security of millions of vulnerable households around the world, hunger and malnutrition are back in the headlines. The world is making only slow progress in reducing food insecurity, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI). Some regions—in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997062
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The challenge of hunger 2007: Global Hunger Index: Facts, determinants, and trends
Wiesmann, Doris; Sost, Ann Kathrin; Schöninger, Iris; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997103
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Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization:
Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"For more than two centuries, proponents and critics of an open global economy have debated whether the free flows of goods, services, and capital make the world more peaceful and food secure or instead exacerbate inequalities and hardships, fanning interclass or interethnic violence motivated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997122
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Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization:
Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
as a cause and effect of hunger and also looks at agricultural exports as war commodities. We review studies on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997264
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A global hunger index: measurement concept, ranking of countries, and trends
Wiesmann, Doris - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Progress in combating hunger and undernutrition has been lagging for decades. Best practices to fight hunger and undernutrition have been available for a long while, but lack of political will among leaders and a lack of political power among the poor have hampered their implementation. Since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997348
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Rebuilding after emergency: Revamping agricultural research in Sierra Leone after civil war
Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo; Workneh, Sindu; Rhodes, Edward; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"The civil war in Sierra Leone, caused by a mix of political, social, and economic factors, had a huge impact on the … of Sierra Leone was severely affected by the civil war. Research infrastructure was destroyed, laboratories were damaged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037997
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The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh:
Rakib, Muntaha; Matz, Julia Anna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886775
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Bargaining power and biofortification: The role of gender in adoption of orange sweet potato in Uganda:
Gilligan, Daniel O.; Kumar, Neha; McNiven, Scott; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … and nonland assets controlled by women, affect adoption and diffusion decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886776
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Managing risk with insurance and savings: Experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in West Africa:
Delavallade, Clara; Dizon, Felipe; Hill, Ruth Vargas; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272207
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Is reliable water access the solution to undernutrition? A review of the potential of irrigation to solve nutrition and gender gaps in Africa South of the Sahara:
Domènech, Laia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272211