Resources Tagged: Food Security

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  1. Village Chickens, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation: The Benefits of Newcastle Disease Control in Southern Africa

    2013-01-20 Village chickens can be found in all developing countries and play a vital role in many poor rural households. They provide scarce animal protein in the form of meat and eggs and can be sold or bartered to meet essential family needs such as medicine, clothes and school fees. Village poultry are...
    Chickens Village chickens Newcastle Disease Food Security

  2. An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Food Security

    Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. - 1996 World Food Summit
    Food Safety Health and Nutrition Nutritious Food FAO Food Security

  3. FAO - Economics of Sustainable Agriculture

    Our work on sustainable agriculture provides analysis and policy insights on how natural resource management can result in enhanced food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable development. Research and field work seek to improve knowledge and understanding of how best to integrate...
    Sustainable Develo... Economic Development Natural Resource M... Food Security Preventing Poverty Sustainable Agricu... FAO

  4. Population and Food Security Challenges in Ngorongoro District

    Ngorongoro District, part of the Serengeti Ecosystem witnessed a human population growth from approximately 25,000 in the early sixties to 200,000 people in 2016, predominantly pastoralist Maasai. Pastoralism as we know it today can be combined with photo tourism and game hunting activities for...
    ECHO Resources Pastoralist Food Security Population Pastoralism Maasai Serengeti Economic Alternatives East Africa

  5. Diversity of Approaches in Conservation Agriculture in Africa

    The desire to transform smallholder farming to feed the increasing hungry people, burgeoning population, and adaptation and mitigation to climate change is high. There is an obvious realization that it is smallholder farming and rain-fed for that matter that holds the promise to feed the hungry...
    Sustainability Conservation Agric... Food Security Climate Change Farming Sustainable Develo... East Africa

  6. Reconsidering non-traditional export agriculture and household food security: A case study in rural Guatemala

    Abstract,PLoS ONE, 2018 May 24 As the production of non-traditional export (NTX) crops by smallholder households in developing countries expands, there is a compelling need to understand the potential effects of this type of agricultural production on household food security and nutrition. We use...
    Export Food Security Nutrition Latin America and ...

  7. Mainstreaming Gender in Food Security Programs

    The presentation discusses gender in food security programs. The presentation shall focus issues of access and control and impact on food security. The break out session will conduct an analysis of gender in agriculture program and how to address gender gaps that promote continuous women...
    agriculture Women Gender Food Security East Africa

  8. Greener Food Production in Africa Resilient Crops and Zonal Management

    2017-02-08 Soil degradation and rapid change are faced across Africa, and require attention to both old and new technologies. Over two decades of action research with farmers in Malawi has shown that smallholder food production and nutrition can be improved through biological principles and targeted use of...
    Soil Degradation Resilience Food Security Smallholder East Africa

  9. Greener Food Production in Africa Resilient Crops and Zonal Management

    Soil degradation and rapid change are faced across Africa, and require attention to both old and new technologies. Over two decades of action research with farmers in Malawi has shown that smallholder food production and nutrition can be improved through biological principles and targeted use of...
    Soil Degradation Resilience Food Security Smallholder Smallholder Farm East Africa

  10. FAO Corporate Document Repository

    This on-line resource offers a selection of hundreds of food security focused documents (most of which in English) classified under several main headings that include crop and livestock production systems, fisheries and aquaculture management as well as sustainable natural resources management.In...
    Food Security Crop Production Animal Production Aquaculture Natural Resource M... Fish Farming Asia