The paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognizing the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms could...

This study examines the impact of biofuel production on the enjoyment of the human right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger. It follows from internationally recognised human...

At the World Food Summit (WFS) in 1996, States set themselves the goal of reducing by half the number of people suffering from hunger by the year 2015. In 2000, ‘to eradicate extreme poverty and...

The links between land tenure and conflict have recently generated a considerable body of research. While environmentalists have pointed to the importance of land scarcity and demographic pressure as causes of land...

Energy has a crucial role in development in Cambodia. Demand of fossil fuel and thereby the import increased year by year. Cambodia faces energy price in the world and is often subjected to insecure supply....

Sector-wide approaches (SWAps) have been an important part of the global effort to deliver sustainable development results for more than a decade now. However, SWAps are relatively new in agriculture and rural development (A&RD). This...

Since the onset of the Israeli occupation in 1967, the economy of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) has been an “income economy” rather than a “production economy”—making the WBGS extremely vulnerable to the...

This is an updated version, with extension of projections to 2050, of two of the key chapters (Chapters 2 and 3) of the study World Agriculture: Towards 2015/30 completed in 2002 and published in 2003...

Since the onset of the Israeli occupation in 1967, the economy of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) has been an “income economy” rather than a “production economy”—making the WBGS extremely vulnerable to the...

The crippling famines of the 1970s and 1980s in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) prompted the development of national and regional early warning systems (EWS) across the continent. Generally, these systems have been effective in alerting...