Overslaan en naar de inhoud gaan

page search

Displaying 37 - 48 of 2875

From promises to action: Analyzing global commitments on food security and diets since 2015

LandLibrary Resource
december, 2023
United States of America

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), Zero Hunger, by 2030 is in jeopardy due to slowing and unequal economic growth, climate shocks, the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict, lackluster efforts toward investing in food system sustainability and agricultural productivity growth, and persistent barriers to open food trade.

Understanding diversity in gender norms within farming communities: A Q-methodology approach applied in Uganda

LandLibrary Resource
december, 2023
Uganda

Women’s and men’s opportunities are influenced by gender norms which shape their respective behaviours, roles and decision-making power. Gender norms thus influence farming outcomes and the ability of women and men to secure their livelihood objectives. We study gender norms and normative change in a smallholder farming community in Uganda.

Opportunities for innovation and intervention in Uganda’s dairy value chain: A scoping report

LandLibrary Resource
december, 2023
United States of America

This report is generated as part of a scoping study to identify possible areas that should be prioritized for intervention to improve performance and sustainability of the dairy industry in Uganda. The evaluation relies on primary and secondary data collected by IFPRI and DDA in 2021.

Resilience – and collapse – of local food systems in conflict affected areas; reflections from Burkina Faso

LandLibrary Resource
december, 2023
Burkina Faso

Armed conflicts are among the major disruptions affecting local food systems in low- and middle-income countries, having devastating effects on populations’ food security. The understanding of the mechanisms linking conflicts to food insecurity is limited, however, by a lack of data on how these conflicts affect the different actors of local food systems.

Towards sustainable food crop production: Drivers of shift from crop production to mining activities in Ghana's arable lands

LandLibrary Resource
december, 2023
Ghana

This study contributes to the observed reduction of arable lands discourse by examining the shift in land use patterns as well as factors influencing farmers' shift from crop production to mining activities. To achieve this, we employed a combination of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and Cragg's Double Hurdle Econometric Model as analytical tools.

Tackling gender inequality in community-based organizations: The contribution of cacao cooperatives to environmental justice for women in Peru

LandLibrary Resource
december, 2023
Peru

Persistent gender inequalities challenge theory and praxis of community-based collective action. Here we adopt an innovative approach which integrates environmental justice, value chain inclusion and collective action theory to diagnose inequalities in community- based organizations (CBOs) and identify strategies to address them.

Agricultural production and food security implications of Covid-19 disruption on small-scale farmer households: Lessons from Kenya

LandLibrary Resource
december, 2023
Kenya

A range of studies have highlighted the negative impacts of Covid-19 disruptions on incomes, food and nutrition security among rural agricultural communities in developing countries. However, knowledge of how such disruptions affect different categories of small-scale farmers in Sub-Sahara Africa is lacking.

The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies

LandLibrary Resource
december, 2023
Global

We analyze rural households’ purchases of food (cereals and non-cereals) in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative data with 65,000 observations covering 7 countries over a decade. We distinguish between three strata of countries: lower stratum in income and urbanization, middle stratum, and upper stratum. The paper breaks ground by the breadth and time length of the sample.

Smallholder aquaculture diversifies livelihoods and diets thus improving food security status: evidence from northern Zambia

LandLibrary Resource
december, 2023
Zambia

Much has been made of the potential for aquaculture to improve rural livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Africa, though little evidence exists to back such claims. This study, conducted in northern Zambia, assessed the benefits of adopting aquaculture by comparing a sample of households with (n = 177) and without fishponds (n = 174).