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Agriculture

The global food challenge: towards a human rights approach to trade and investment policies

The number of undernourished people in the world has set a scandalous new record of one billion in 2009, in spite of a record grain harvest in 2008. This book argues that the

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Sophia Murphy, Armin Paasch
Heinrich Boll Foundation
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Prices, Climate Change, Trade, WTO, Farmers, Women, Finance, Human Rights, India, Global, Food Security
Land

Land grab?: the race for the worlds farmland

The world is experiencing a grain rush. With increasing frequency, food-importing countries and private investors are acquiring farmland across the developing world.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Michael Kugelman, Susan L. Levenstein
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Tags:
Land, Land Use, Land Acquisition, Agriculture, Farmers, Poverty, Asia, India, Global, Food Security
Agriculture

The evolving structure of world agricultural trade: implications for trade policy and trade agreements

The report first sets the context for a discussion of trade policy interventions in the context of evolving structures of production and trade, stressing the importance of the roles that the agriculture sector can play in countries at different levels of development and the fact that policy interventions will need to reflect these different roles. It then reviews evidence on

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Alexander Sarris, Jamie Morrison
FAO
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Prices, Trade, WTO, Consumption Patterns, Economic Development, India, FAO, Rome, Developing Countries, Food Security, Alexander Sarris, Jamie Morrison
Climate Change

Community-based adaptation to climate change: an overview

In this overview paper the authors describe how community-based approaches to climate change have emerged, and the similarities and differences between CBA and other participatory development and disaster risk reduction approaches.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Hannah Reid, Mozaharul Alam, Rachel Berger & et al
Participatory Learning and Action
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Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Science, Climate Impacts, Glacial Melt, Climate Adaptation, Disaster Management, Traditional Knowledge, Africa, Asia, Developing Countries, Food Security
Poverty

Food security atlas of rural Bihar

The Food Security Atlas of Rural Bihar is one of a series of eight Atlases produced by the Institute for Human
Development (IHD) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). The other states covered in this series are: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. The Atlases carry out a
district-level analysis of food security for each of these states.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2009
Institute for Human Development
Tags:
Food Security, Bihar, Poverty, Nutrition, Health, Children, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Agriculture, Drinking Water, Agricultural Labourers, Consumption Patterns
Climate Change

IFAD chief says climate change threat is very real

Gargi Parsai

Without crop varieties adapting to extremes of weather, feeding world population will be difficult

Shortage of water resources will be one of the greatest problems

Publication Date: 
30/11/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Mitigation, Poverty, Africa, Asia, India, Food Security
Food Policy

10% cuts to fuel food security

MUKESH RANJAN

Plan expenditure to be brought down by 10 per cent to create fiscal space for National Food Security Act in 2010-11
The revised estimates (actual expenditure) of the ongoing Budget (2009-10) is likely to witness a major cut with finance ministry deciding to bring down plan expenditure by 10 per cent.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Policy, Economy, India, Food Security
Mining

Left to launch movement against illegal mining

BHUBANESWAR: Leaders of the Left parties today accused Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of promoting mines mafias to loot minerals of the State in the name of industrialisation.

Publication Date: 
25/11/2009
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Agriculture, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Farmers, Poverty, Orissa (Odisha), Food Security
Food Policy

Protest rally planned against National Food Security Act

NEW DELHI: Rejecting the United Progressive Alliance Government

Publication Date: 
25/11/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Supply, Poverty, Food Security
Food Policy

Copenhagen is also about food

Lester R Brown

As the number of hungry people rise, so too has the number of failing states If China can no longer grow enough wheat and rice to feed its 1.3 billion people and goes shopping for massive quantities of grain, global food costs will rise dramatically

Publication Date: 
25/11/2009
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Starvation, Climate Change, Food Stress, Poverty, Food Security

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