This book provides an overview of the potential benefits of agricultural biotechnology in Africa in the context of continuous poor agricultural production and rising food insecurity. The authors draw on research on biotechnology and biosafety policy in three African countries: Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.The authors discuss that countries in the region need to implement policies to reduce uncertainty and misunderstanding of the benefits and risks of GM products, which include developing platf more...
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The recent spike in food prices, like other natural and human crises, is liable to harm women disproportionately. In this brief, researchers from IFPRI, an international food policy research organization, identify policy responses to the crisis tailored specifically to women’s needs, including greater involvement of women in planning and distributing food aid, agricultural assistance for female small farmers, and improved access for women to credit and markets.
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Drawing on recent studies of nutrition interventions in Haiti and Guatemala, this brief identifies the optimal timing and long-term effects of interventions to improve child nutrition. Researchers from IFPRI, an international food policy research organization, conclude that improvements in maternal nutrition during pregnancy and child nutrition up to age two have a far greater positive effect on educational accomplishments and income levels than interventions later in children’s lives.
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Agriculture for Development, the 2008 World Development Report, showed that agriculture is a critical source of livelihoods for women in many developing countries, and a key pathway out of poverty. It also portrayed women in many rural societies as especially constrained by a lack of access to inputs, productive resources, and services. They also often lack incentives to invest given the greater vulnerability and proportionately
greater exposure to risk that result from having fewer assets, and more...
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Burkina Faso's national AIDS Council has published a nutrition guide to help people living with HIV to identify nutritious local foodstuffs: guavas, cassava and cashew apples are identified as being rich in vitamins; other foods like baobab leaves, dried okra and fish are rich in iron. Besides using local produce, organisations are searching for innovative ways to provide food to vulnerable communities affected by HIV.
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WHO/Europe collaborates with the WHO Country office in Croatia and with the Croatian Ministries of Education and of Health and Social Welfare in promoting food safety by arranging workshops on this topic.Efficient prevention and control of food safety hazards rely on integrated and holistic food safety systems with a farm-to-fork approach and intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration. This workshop aims to:
1.increase awareness among and provide relevant information to school teachers, more...
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Reforming the Agricultural Extension System in India:What Do We Know About What Works Where and Why?
This paper reviews existing reform programs and strategies currently existing in agricultural extension in India. It distinguishes strategies that have been employed to strengthen both the supply and demand sides of service provision in the area of agricultural extension, and it reviews the effects of the demand- and supply-side strategies on the access to and the quality of agricultural extension services. The ultimate objectives are (1) to gain a view on what works where and why in improving t more...
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