Resources
Food security
2010 Global Hunger Index
Authoring organization(s): International Food Policy Research Institue
Published: 2010
Summary: This document is an annual publication that records the state of global, regional, and national hunger.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
2011 Hunger Report
Authoring organization(s): Bread for the World
Published: 2010
Summary: This report covers the role of the United States in mobilizing global commitments to increase investments in agriculture, food security, and nutrition in developing countries.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Achieving Nutritional Impact and Food Security through Agriculture
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2011
Summary: This four-page fact sheet summarizes ways that agriculture projects can maximize nutrition and food security of women, children, and other vulnerable groups. It offers examples of what works and what does not and recommends design strategies that can increase nutritional benefits.
Topic(s): Food security, general nutrition
Type(s): Fact sheet
Region: Global
Comprehensive Framework for Action
Authoring organization(s): High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis
Published: 2008
Summary: The Comprehensive Framework offers a six-point plan for action to address the global food security crisis and provides a range of options for activities to implement to improve the situation.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Feed the Future Guide
Authoring organization(s): US Government
Published: 2010
Summary: The Feed the Future Guide describes the strategic approach and implementation structures of Feed the Future, the US global hunger and food security initiative. It is intended to inform partners and stakeholders about the development of Feed the Future and how the principles are translated into actions on the ground.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Guide, website
Region: Global
Global Food Security Crisis Website
Authoring organization(s): United Nations
Published: 2009
Summary: This website, produced by the United Nations, contains news, background, country-specific information, events, and resources related to the global food security crisis.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Website
Region: Global
Global Food for Thought
Authoring organization(s): The Global Agriculture Development Project
Published: 2009
Summary: Global Food for Thought is a weekly news brief that follows media, research, and policy developments on issues surrounding agricultural development. Briefs provide summaries of and links to articles, reports, events, and publications on issues such as agriculture, hunger, poverty, climate change, development, water, commodities, and agribusiness.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Newsletter
Region: Global
Global Hunger Index
Authoring organization(s): International Food Policy Research Institute
Published: 2010
Summary: This document is an annual publication that records the state of global, regional, and national hunger.
Topic(s): Food security
Type (s): Technical report
Region: Global
Integrating Household Nutrition and Food Security Objectives into Proposed Agriculture Projects: Illustrative Guidance
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This guidance can help agriculture project designers build nutrition and food security objectives into their projects rather than leave positive impacts to chance. By following this guidance during the initial planning stages, project designers can enhance the nutritional impact and food security of vulnerable groups.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Tool
Region: Global
Maximizing Nutritional Benefits from Agricultural Interventions
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2010
Summary: This PowerPoint, presented at the Global Health Council’s 37th Annual International Conference on Global Health in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2010, discusses the intersection between agriculture and nutrition and describes a nutritional impact assessment tool to help program planners meet the vision of initiatives addressing nutrition, global hunger, and food security.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): PowerPoint
Region: Global
Nutrition and Food Security Impacts of Agriculture Projects: A Review of Experience
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2011
Summary: This document summarizes IYCN’s review of more than 30 years of studies examining food security and nutrition impacts of agricultural projects in low-income countries. Findings revealed that it is possible to anticipate food security and nutrition impacts and agricultural projects can be oriented in ways that maximize positive outcomes.
Topic(s): Food security, general nutrition
Type(s): Literature review
Region: Global
Nutritional Impact Assessment Tool and Guidance
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This tool aims to assist project designers in assessing an agriculture project’s likely impacts on the nutrition of vulnerable groups. When it is not possible to include nutrition objectives in the design of a project, conducting a nutritional impact assessment during the planning process can help to avoid unintended negative impacts.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Tool
Region: Global
Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poverty
Authoring organization(s): The Chicago Initiative on Global Agriculture Development
Published: 2009
Summary: The Chicago Initiative on Global Agriculture Development’s report includes five recommendations and more than 20 specific suggestions for how the United States, through increased agricultural development assistance and partnerships at home and abroad, could help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and restore the United States as a force for positive change in the world.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
Authoring organization(s): Bread for the World, CARE, PATH, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: The roadmap, and supporting documents, assembled by a coalition of non-governmental organizations, sets forth a comprehensive and strategic plan that addresses world hunger in the short, intermediate, and long term. This approach seeks to increase funding for key interventions needed to alleviate global hunger and ensure better coordination among existing US government programs.
- A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
- One-Page Summary of A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
- Rep. Jim McGovern’s Remarks on A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Advocacy document
Region: Global
SASHA Project: Integrating health and agriculture to maximize the nutritional impact of orange-fleshed sweet potato: The Mama SASHA action research project in Western Kenya
Authoring organization(s): Mama SASHA Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This technical brief summarizes the activities of the Mama SAHA Project in Western Kenya to test an integrated orange-flesh sweet potato-based intervention at the community level for agriculture, nutrition, and health.
Topic(s): Food security
Type (s): Technical brief
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
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