The recent food crisis in Malawi has drawn stark attention to the failures of development policies over the last 40 years to create wealth and develop a robust economy or the markets on which such an economy must depend. Current market liberalisation policies have achieved at best mixed success...

Does access to formal financial services affect household food security? To date, research has answered this question by focusing on rural credit, by using simple measures of food security, and by relying on quasi-experimental designs. By contrast, this paper concentrates on microsavings,...

This research paper analyzes the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity in quantity terms, value of production in monetary terms and food security in India. The study undertook state wise analysis based on secondary data for the duration of 1980 to 2009. Climate variation affects...

Several governments, researchers and development practitioners have identified the youth as an integral part of the strategy for reducing poverty and food insecurity in Africa. Despite youths being at the centre of food and nutrition security, their contribution to household food security...

This paper explores the concept of women’s nutritional empowerment and develops a framework for operationalizing it. The paper specifically focuses on the nutritional outcomes of women themselves, rather than on their children. The emphasis on nutritional empowerment addresses an important gap...

Women need opportunity not sympathy - they want freedom to change the face of health & nutrition condition in developing countries. Women based Self-Help-Groups (SHGs) in south Asia; India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal etc. are actively participating in development arena especially in health &...

This paper aims to empirically infer potential causal linkages between fruit and vegetable (F&V) production, individual F&V intake, household food security, and anemia levels for individual women caregivers of childbearing age. Using a unique and rich dataset recently collected from rural...

This paper studies the nutritional impact and the adjustment in consumption as a result of the 2005-2010 rice price increase in rural Bangladesh. We compare the net rice buyers, who suffer from a negative income effect, with the self sufficient households. Our findings indicate that rural...

This study investigated correlation and regression analyses designed to asses the respective relationships between the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale/Prevalence (HFIAS/HFIAP) as a measure of food access, the Household Dietary Diversity Score, the Months of Adequate Household Food...

The regularity of the food crises in the countries of the Sahel challenges more one on the need for looking further into the studies on the food risk of insecurity. This study thus proposes to study the food vulnerability of the rural populations in Burkina Faso. This not only in terms of...