Kenya is one of the focus countries of the EC/FAO Programme “Food Security Information for Action” whose broad objectives are to improve availability and quality of relevant food security information, reinforce capacity in formulating food...

The report gives details on the pre-testing of survey tools in Malawi: the FANTA developed Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDD); the FANTA-developed Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS); and an individual dietary diversity score (IDD)....

The crippling famines of the 1970s and 1980s in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which claimed the lives of millions of people and forced millions more into destitution, prompted the development of early warning systems (EWS) across the continent. Governments,...

This report tests the hypothesis that there is a critical paradox between the dynamic features of food insecurity and static policy response in a protracted emergency context. It does so by presenting a review of...

The latest major international development concerning the right to food took place in FAO in November 2004 when its Council unanimously adopted the Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food...

This case study examines how alternative approaches to rinderpest eradication evolved in the complex emergency context of southern Sudan, and how initial experiences informed the establishment of a large-scale community-based animal health worker (CAHW) system....

One major step towards achieving food security in developing countries is to improve their ability to achieve seed security. While seed supply channels of commercial agriculture are usually operational even during emergencies, the seed system...

World agriculture: towards 2015/2030 is FAO’s latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world’s food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections cover supply and demand for...

Poverty and food security are heterogeneous phenomena in most countries; types and depth of poverty, measured in different ways, vary between and within countries and regions. Poverty mapping in its various forms involves techniques that...

This publication contains three in-depth studies on the cost of hunger. These studies: 1) review the theoretical background to and the empirical evidence of how nutrition intake affects economic growth; 2) investigate the relationship between...