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Hunger and Food Security: New Challenges and New Opportunities

Project name/title

Hunger and Food Security: New Challenges and New Opportunities

Year:

2004

Theme:

Poverty, Inequality and Well-being

Abstract:

Millions of people remain desperately food insecure, and over a decade of agricultural-sector reform appears to have achieved little in the way of improving entitlement to food in many countries. This project will investigate why progress in achieving food-security has been disappointing in so many countries (especially in Africa) despite the implementation of extensive donor-inspired reform in agriculture, and the possibility of transferring lessons learned from the successful reduction of hunger in many parts of Asia.

Director:

• Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis
  Project Co-Director

Assistant:

• Janis Vehmaan-Kreula
  Project Assistant

Project Meetings

• 12 October 2005 Project meeting on Hunger and Food Security: New Challenges and New Opportunities
• 4 March 2005 Project meeting on Hunger and Food Security: New challenges and New Opportunities

Publications:

• Agricultural Support Measures of Advanced Countries and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries
• Analysis of the Potential Impact of the Current WTO Agricultural Negotiations on Government Strategies in the SADC Region
• Can We Eradicate Hunger?
• The Changing Pattern of Undernutrition in India: A Comparative Analysis across Regions
• Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa?
• Enforcing the Right to Food in India: Bottlenecks in Delivering the Expected Outcome
• Entitlement Failure from a Food Quality Perspective: The Life and Death Role of Vitamins and Minerals in Humanitarian Crises
• Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
• Food Retailing, Supermarkets and Food Security: Highlights from Latin America
• Food Security in Vietnam during the 1990s: The Empirical Evidence
• Food Security in the South Pacific Island Countries with Special Reference to the Fiji Islands
• Food Security: Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness
• Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rural Livelihoods: Micro-Level Investigations in Three African Countries
• Gender, Local Knowledge, and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity
• The Impact of Domestic and International Commodity Price Volatility on Agricultural Income Instability: Ghana, Vietnam and Peru
• International Trade, Food Security and the Response to the WTO in South Asian Countries
• Looking for Answers to the Food Security Problem: India under Current Compulsions
• Measures of Food Insecurity at the Household Level
• Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy
• National Food Policies Impacting on Food Security: The Experience of India, a Large Populated Country
• On the Edge: The Role of Food-based Safety Nets in Helping Vulnerable Households Manage Food Insecurity
• The Public Distribution Systems of Foodgrains and Implications for Food Security: A Comparison of the Experiences of India and China
• Realizing the Right to Food in South Asia
• Rights-based Approach to Development: Lessons from the Right to Food Movement in India
• State Recognition of the Right to Food at the National Level
• Tomorrow's Hunger: A Framework for Analysing Vulnerability to Food Security
• Women and Food Security in South Asia: Current Issues and Emerging Concerns
• Women's Status and Children's Food Security in Pakistan