APHCA is part of the Food and Agriculture Organization. It works with local governments, institutions and farmers, to develop strategies to tackle livestock problems.

UNICEF’s yearly flagship report, The State of the World’s Children, launched 22 January 2008, makes a call to unite for child survival. Here is one in a series of related stories.

UNICEF and the Government of India have partnered to train auxiliary nurse-midwives and community health workers in Lalitipur.

This manual, drafted as a result of a two-day international workshop on computerising agricultural cooperatives held at FAO headquarters in October 2003 , is intended to provide a reference for agricultural cooperatives considering computerisation, with the aim of ensuring that their first attempt to computerise will be a successful one. It is based on a review of computerisation experiences in Asia, Africa and South America.
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With the advent of supermarkets in urban centres in many developing countries, the question of their impact on access to food and food security for the urban poor has arisen. This paper examines the consequences, and also looks at the effect supermarkets can have rural agriculture and food security.

Supermarkets can provide better quality products to better-off consumers in developing countries, and thus contribute positively to their food security. With some food commodities, supermarkets ar more...

This paper from the Regional Network on HIV/AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL) reviews the literature on migration, HIV and urban food security. The paper draws links between these three factors in the context of Southern and Eastern Africa. It outlines an action research agenda to inform policy and programming within these three interconnected sectors.

Recent research shows a change in the relationship between urban and rural households in this area. The direct transfer of food fr more...

The objective of this paper is to highlight the contribution that inland and coastal small-scale fisheries can make to poverty alleviation and food security and to make practical suggestions on ways that this contribution can be maximised.

In particular the paper discusses:

* the concepts of poverty, vulnerability and food security, and how these concepts have evolved in recent years within the field of fisheries
* the actual and potential contribution of small-scale fisheries to more...

This report summarises the results of a study of the food security outlook for Southern Africa, highlighting the major threats to food security in the period October 2007 to March 2008. It incorporates the findings from six country outlooks, and aims to provide a basis for regional and global resource allocation and contingency planning, as well as in-country planning.

The following early warning priorities are highlighted:

* in Zimbabwe, food security has deteriorated in most of the c more...

This publication offers resources for trainers on Reporting Food Security Information and is based on distance learning courses being offered by the EC-FAO Programme. It is a course aimed at mid-level managers, technical staff, field personnel; and planners, policy formulators and programme managers.

The aim of the report is to provide guidance in designing, writing and increasing the impact of food security reports in different contexts and is comprised of four essons:

* Understanding more...

This paper reflects on where the people termed a “community of practice” stand in the food security enterprise. That is, those people who have a common interest or problem, who collaborate to share ideas, find solutions and build innovations. The paper looks at the way that food security issues have been dealt with in terms of analysis and response, from both a technical and political perspective, making three key points, which it relates to the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) tool.

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