food security
En trois ans, les prix alimentaires ont augmenté de quatre-vingt trois pour cent dans le monde. 1 La crise qui en résulte constitue une menace sans précédent pour les moyens d'existence et le bien-être de millions de ménages ruraux et urbains qui sont les consommateurs de base. Oxfam International et nombre de ses partenaires ont vu ces prix obliger les...
The current food price crisis has received widespread attention, but discussions to date have largely overlooked the gender dimensions of the crisis. More than 15 years of rigorous research on gender and intrahousehold resource allocation suggest not only that men and women will be affected differently by the global food crisis, but also that, as both consumers and producers, they will have...
Agricultural trade policies affect the livelihoods of millions of agricultural producers and rural people in the developing world. In developing countries, agriculture is a major source of income and employs the majority of the population of developing countries. Appropriate agriculture trade policies can help address poverty and hunger as well as provide livelihood and food...
Rural enterprises and diversification into market-oriented, income generating activities are being increasingly viewed as a path to improving both livelihoods and food security. The issue is not whether to participate in the market economy but how to do so in a manner which provides for sustainable and equitable income growth and decent work. Taking many forms including cooperatives,...
Sustainable agriculture is an effective poverty reduction strategy when matched with rural development strategies to address the economic, social and political disadvantages of the poor. It can increase income and food supply at the household level and provide cheaper food, increased employment opportunities and higher wages, which contribute to broader poverty reduction.
Sustainable agriculture needs to be brought back into the development agenda! This book not only shows that sustainable agriculture works; it also outlines what should be done and how it can be done. All the agricultural practices described in this book highlight in one or the other way how sustainable agriculture contributes directly to the United Nations’ Millennium Development...
Sustainable, agriculture, rural development and poverty reduction depend on unleashing women’s contribution to household food security and income, improving access to resources and services and enhancing the benefits of policy reforms for their economic and social well-being and empowerment.
If development is to be effective, it needs to empower rural women and men equally. IFAD-supported projects and programmes address inequalities by enhancing women’s access to productive resources and increasing their participation in decision-making. Over 30 years of existence, IFAD has placed increasing importance on gender equality and women’s empowerment, both as objectives in...
Climate change threatens to make the already difficult situation of food security in the world even worse. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - based on the evaluation of many scientific studies - has made a critical assessment of the possible impacts of climate change on agriculture, livestock and fishing, particularly in the countries of the...
Poverty has many dimensions and each has its own causes and determinants that vary over time. At the conceptional level, there is now a much deeper understanding of the nature and causes of poverty, but in practice, the negative and positive factors that may tend to increase or decrease poverty often operate simultaneously. It is therefore difficult to predict whether a given package of...
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