Women, MDGs & Africa

Select Resources on Goal 1: Combating Hunger

Publications:

Action Aid ‘Fertile ground; How governments and donors can halve hunger by supporting small farmers’ (2010)

Action Aid 'Who's really fighting hunger?' (2010)

Africa Progress Panel ‘Raising Agricultural Productivity in Africa - Options of Action and the Role of Subsidies’ (2010)

FAO ‘Bridging the Gap – FAO’s Programme for Gender Equality in Agriculture and Rural Development’ (2009)

IFPRI ‘Halving Hunger: Meeting the first Millennium Development Goal through Business Unusual’ (2010)

IFPRI ‘Strategies for adapting to Climate Change in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa’ (2010)

OECD and FAO Agricultural Outlook 2010-2019

Oxfam 'Halving Hunger: Still possible? Building a resource package to set the MDGs back on track' (2010)

Save the Children and FAO ‘Children and women’s rights to property and inheritance in Mozambique’ (2009)

The World Bank ‘Agricultural development under a changing climate: Opportunities and challenges for adaptation’ (2009)

The World Bank ‘Scaling up nutrition – what will it cost?’ (2010)

The World Bank ‘World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development’ (2008)

UNDG MDG Thematic Paper on MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (2010)

UNEP ‘The Environmental Food crisis’ (2009)

UNICEF ‘Tracking progress on child and maternal nutrition’ (2009)

WFP ‘Climate Change and hunger – Responding to the challenge’ (2009)

WFP ‘Fighting Hunger World Wide, Annual Report 2010’ (2010)

WFP 'Revolution: From food aid to food assistance - Innovations in overcoming hunger' (2010)

WFP and FAO 'The state of food insecurity in the world; Addressing food insecurity in protracted crises' (2010)

WFP and FAO ‘The state of food insecurity in the world; Economic crises – impacts and lessons learned’ (2009)

 

Organizations:

Alliance for a Green Recolution in Africa (AGRA)

Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)  

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

International Alliance Against Hunger

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The Hunger Project

World Food Programme (WFP)

 

Best practices:

DFID Case Study ‘Green farming in Kenya’

GAIN Interview with producer of infant cereal products in Côte d’Ivoire (2009)

 IFPRI ‘Successes in African Agriculture – Lessons for the Future’ (2010)

UNDG MDG Good Practices (2010) Chapter 1 on Poverty, employment and hunger 

 

Outreach material:

FAO ‘Gender and Land Rights’ Brief (2010)

FAO ‘Hunger in the face of the crisis’ (2010)

FAO Protracted Food Crisis Map 

FAO ‘Women and Rural Employment – Fighting poverty by redefining gender roles’ Brief (2009)

G8 ‘Muskoka Accountability Report’ (2010) Annex 5 on Food security

Mad as Hell Campaign

Save the Children Fact Sheet ‘Investing in children’s nutrition – the economic benefits’ (2010)

The World Bank 'Women and Land rights in Ethiopia' (2010)

WFP ‘Two minutes to learn about: School meals’ (2010)

 

Statistics and other resources:

FAOSTATS

FAO Food Security Statistics

FAO Gender and Land Rights Database

FAO Hunger Statistics

FAO World Food Situation

G8 ‘Muskoka Accountability Report’ (2010) Annex 5 Food security

UNICEF ‘The state of the world’s children’ Table 2. Nutrition

WFP Huger Stats