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1 Geheb, Kim; Kalloch, S.; Medard, M.; Nyapendi, A. T.; Lwenya, C.; Kyangwa, M. 2008. Nile perch and the hungry of Lake Victoria: Gender, status and food in an East African fishery. Food Policy, 33(1):85-98.
Lakes ; Fisheries ; Fishery management ; Social aspects ; Malnutrition ; Income ; Fishermen ; Gender ; Labor ; Women ; Export ; Constraints ; Poverty ; Households / Africa / Tanzania / Uganda / Lake Victoria
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 639.2 G100 GEH Record No: H040618)
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Lake Victoria supports Africa’s largest inland fishery, and its most valuable product is the Nile perch, much of which is exported. This has given rise to arguments claiming a direct linear relationship between perch exports and disturbingly high rates of malnutrition along the lake’s shores. In this paper, we argue that this argument is seriously flawed for it is unable to explain how it is that the income from the Nile perch fishery fails to translate into a well-fed riparian population. We draw on field work carried out in 2001 that (a) set out to establish exactly how much malnutrition there was on the lake’s shores; and (b) sought to identify hat happened to the income the fishery generates. We argue that because men control much of the fishery, and women are held responsible for the upkeep of their families, little of this income makes its way back into the households of the region, giving rise to the levels of malnutrition we observed.
2 Keatinge, J. D. H.; Waliyar, F.; Jamnadas, R. H.; Moustafa, A.; Andrade, M.; Drechsel, Pay; Hughes, J. d’A.; Kardirvel, P.; Luther, K. 2010. Relearning old lessons for the future of food - by bread alone no longer: diversifying diets with fruit and vegetables. Crop Science, 50:S-51-S-62. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2009.09.0528]
Malnutrition ; Human nutrition ; Diets ; Vegetables ; Fruits ; Pest management ; Cropping systems ; Climate ; Adaptation ; Marketing ; Pollutants ; Health hazards
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042650)
http://crop.scijournals.org/cgi/reprint/50/Supplement_1/S-51
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042650.mht
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042650.mht
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Diversifying diets and agricultural enterprises with fruit and vegetables is a potent weapon in the current global battle against malnutrition and poverty. Agricultural science can contribute substantially to enhance the development prospects and health of not only disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals at one end of the spectrum but also the growth and equity of national economies at the other. Moreover, with relatively simple applied research, new crop species and technologies can rapidly enter the development pathway to benefit even the poorest people or nations. More upstream research can help to guard fruit and vegetable production against the vagaries of potential climatic uncertainty, which is projected to become more prominent over future decades. However, historical and continuing widespread underinvestment in fruit and vegetable research and development from the national to the global level may severely compromise the world’s ability to use such highvalue species for crop diversification and as a major engine of development growth to ensure global food and nutritional security.
3 Norton, G. W.; Alwang, J.; Masters, W. A. (Eds.) 2010. Economics of agricultural development: world food systems and resource use. 2nd ed. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. 465p.
Agricultural development ; Farming systems ; Food insecurity ; Poverty ; Famine ; Malnutrition ; Health hazards ; Income ; Economic growth ; International trade ; Trade policy ; Population growth ; Urbanization ; Environmental degradation ; Agricultural research ; Agricultural extension ; Land tenure ; Land reform ; Price policies ; Marketing
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 NOR Record No: H043411)
4 Fan, S.; Pandya-Lorch, R. 2012. Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health. Washington, DC, USA: IFPRI. 213p.
Agricultural development ; Nutrition ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Waterborne diseases ; Malaria ; Sanitation ; Food supply ; Economic growth ; Poverty ; Hunger ; Malnutrition ; Case studies ; Investment ; Gender ; Public sector ; Water security ; Water use ; Wastewater irrigation ; Labour / Africa South of Sahara / Tanzania / Uganda / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630.7 G000 FAN Record No: H044807)
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/oc69.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044807.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044807.pdf
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5 Garrett, J.; Natalicchio, M. (Eds.) 2011. Working multisectorally in nutrition: principles, practices and case studies. Washington, DC, USA: IFPRI. 205p.
Nutrients ; Malnutrition ; Case studies ; History ; Models ; Research methods ; Food security ; Policy ; Institutions ; Organizations ; Corporate culture ; Capacity building ; Social aspects ; Economic growth ; Financial situation / Senegal / Colombia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.8 G000 GAR Record No: H044824)
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/oc68.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044824.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044824.pdf
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6 Sapur, S. 2012. Strategies of sustainable nutrition to address fluorosis and malnutrition in children. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 41. 5p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045488)
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7 Jalloh, A.; Nelson, G. C.; Thomas, T. S.; Zougmore, R.; Roy-Macauley, H. (Eds.) 2013. West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 408p.
Agriculture ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Food security ; Income ; Land use ; Land cover ; Crop production ; Yields ; Rainfed farming ; Models ; Economic aspects ; Indicators ; Policy ; Rural population ; Population growth ; Social aspects ; Poverty ; Malnutrition / Africa / Benin / Burkina Faso / Cote d’Ivoire / Ghana / Guinea / Liberia / Niger / Nigeria / Senegal / Sierra Leone / Togo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.10966 G100 JAL Record No: H045952)
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/rr178.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045952.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045952.pdf
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8 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2014. 2013 global food policy report. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 141p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295629]
Food policy ; Indicators ; Food security ; Food production ; Statistics ; Nutrition ; Malnutrition ; Sustainable agriculture ; Agricultural research ; Hunger ; Poverty ; Legislation ; Farmers ; Investment ; Marketing ; Information and communication technologies (ICTs) ; Regional development ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects / Central Asia / South Asia / East Asia / India / Africa / Arab countries / Russia / Latin America / Carribbean
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.8 G000 INT Record No: H046637)
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/gfpr2013.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046637.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046637.pdf
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9 Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.) 2014. The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 489p. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
Water security ; Food security ; Food production ; Food supply ; Energy conservation ; Agriculture ; Periurban areas ; Urban areas ; Urbanization ; Rural areas ; Hydrological cycle ; Models ; Sustainable development ; Social aspects ; Water footprint ; Water supply ; Water use ; Water demand ; Water availability ; Catchment areas ; Solar energy ; Carbon cycle ; Sanitation ; Health hazards ; Malnutrition ; Milk production ; Decentralization ; Wastewater management ; Wastewater treatment ; Excreta ; Waste treatment ; Nutrients ; Horticulture ; Labour mobility ; Climate change ; Knowledge management ; Greenhouse gases ; Emission reduction ; Land use ; Biodiversity ; Case studies / India / Australia / Ghana / Iran / West Africa / Ethiopia / Uganda / Africa South of Sahara / Senegal / Bangladesh / Melbourne / Tamale / Shiraz / Sydney / Addis Ababa / Accra / Hyderabad / Kampala / Dakar / Dhaka / Udaipur / Bharatpur / Tigray Region / Rajasthan / Rajsamand District / South Creek Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI, e-copy SF Record No: H046685)
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10 Matchaya, Greenwell; Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso; Chilonda, Pius. 2014. Agricultural sector performance in Malawi. Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 14(2):141-156.
Agricultural sector ; Performance indexes ; Poverty ; Income ; Investment ; Cereal products ; Livestock products ; Malnutrition ; Land productivity ; Labour productivity / Malawi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046733)
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This paper charts the performance of the agriculture sector in Malawi for the period 2000 – 2013 (with particular attention paid to the last three to four years of the said period). In the quest to attain this aim the paper empirically focuses on the significance of mapping the performance of the sector in the form of trends against the baseline sectoral performance targets enlisted in the ASWAP, CAADP Framework and SADC RISDP. The consistent and concerted efforts by the Government of Malawi and development partners to meet the ASWAP, CAADP framework and SADC RISDP targets have resulted in the country making commendable economic growth and poverty alleviation. The country has been able to attain the 6% agricultural growth target despite the questionable quality of public expenditure. It is also interesting to note that changes in the agriculture sector appear to have had influence on incomes, poverty and malnourishment. The trend analysis led to the following findings; the growth in agricultural GDP and the annual GDP growth of the country surpassed the CAADP target of 6% annual growth and this culminated to an increase in production (cereal and livestock production) and productivity (land productivity) despite the fact that the country has not met the irrigation and fertiliser used targets. This increase in production and productivity may be earnestly attributed substantially public invested in the agriculture sector to meet the CAADP 10% target of the total budget to agriculture. However, this increase in agricultural GDP annual growth has not had a significant bearing on the country’s battle to offset poverty; the country’s GHI is still serious and the proportion of the population below the minimum dietary energy consumption is still high (23% on average) whilst the MDG I target stands at 20%. The major deduction from these findings is that there is a need for more concerted efforts in Malawi to refine agricultural growth investments; this can be carried out efficiently by developing a National Agriculture Plan (NAP) which will be a single policy tool that will guide investment and implementation of priorities in the sector.
11 Sanderatne, N.; de Alwis, S. 2014. National and household food security in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA). 112p. (CEPA Study Series 8 - 2014)
Household income ; Household expenditure ; Food security ; Right to food ; Food production ; Food policies ; Development projects ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Rice ; Subsidies ; Imports ; Nutrition ; Malnutrition / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.19 G744 SAN Record No: H046772)
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12 Erkossa, Teklu; Hagos, Fitsum; Lefore, Nicole. 2014. Proceedings of the Workshop on Flood-based Farming for Food Security and Adaption to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Potential and Challenges, Adama, Ethiopia, 30-31 October 2013. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 178p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2014.233]
Flood water ; Flood irrigation ; Food security ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Irrigation schemes ; Irrigation systems ; Spate irrigation ; Livestock products ; Crop production ; Siltation ; Arid zones ; Semiarid zones ; Community involvement ; Water rights ; Water resources ; Water harvesting ; Water use ; Land rights ; Poverty ; Households ; Living standards ; Nutrition ; Malnutrition ; Drought ; Farmers ; Indicators ; Sedimentation ; Canals ; Discharges ; Models ; Surface runoff ; Calibration ; Rainfed farming ; Agriculture ; Technology transfer / Africa / Ethiopia / Africa South of Sahara / Oromia Region / Tigray Region / Keleta River / Boru River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046909)
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13 Hagos, Fitsum; Mulugeta, A.; Erkossa, Teklu; Lefore, Nicole; Langan, Simon. 2014. Diversion of flashy floods for agricultural use and its effect on nutrition in Ethiopia. In Erkossa, Teklu; Hagos, Fitsum; Lefore, Nicole. (Eds.). 2014. Proceedings of the Workshop on Flood-based Farming for Food Security and Adaption to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Potential and Challenges, Adama, Ethiopia, 30-31 October 2013. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.53-66.
Flood irrigation ; Spate irrigation ; Agriculture ; Human nutrition ; Children ; Gender ; Body weight ; Height ; Households ; Malnutrition ; Food security / Ethiopia / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046927)
The study examined whether access to spate irrigation leads to better nutrition outcomes. The results showed that there is an overall improvement in the study sites compared to the 2011 DHS study. As far as households with access to spate irrigation are concerned, weight-for-height z-scores indicated that 8.2% of the children had prevalence of global acute malnutrition; 8.2% of them had moderate acute malnutrition. None of the children had severe acute malnutrition. The weight-for-age results indicated that 27.5, 17.6 and 9.8% of the children showed prevalence of underweight, moderate underweight and severe underweight, respectively. The height-for-age z-scores showed 56.5, 30.8 and 21.7% of the children had prevalence of stunting, moderate stunting and severe stunting, respectively. On the other hand, households without access to spate irrigation indicated that as far as the weight-for-height z-scores of children are concerned, there were no children (boys and girls) with prevalence of global acute malnutrition; weight for-age z-score showed that 13.6, 10.2 and 3.4% of the children had prevalence of underweight, moderate underweight and severe underweight, respectively. The height-for-age z-scores showed that 45.5, 25.5 and 20.0% of the children had prevalence of stunting, moderate stunting and severe stunting, respectively. The anthropometric measures, thus, showed the nutritional outcomes of users were worse-off than of nonusers of spate irrigation. This happens in the face of better income and consumption expenditures, mainly nonfood, for users compared to nonusers. This underlines the importance of nutrition education alongside efforts to improve access to irrigation. Moreover, multisectoral collaborations are needed between the health, agriculture, water, social protection, education, gender and other sectors to improve the nutrition outcome of children.
14 Myanmar. Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development. Central Statistical Organization (CSO). 2012. Statistical yearbook 2011. Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar: Central Statistical Organization (CSO). 549p.
Statistics ; Agricultural sector ; Livestock ; Fisheries ; Employment ; Education ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Population ; Health ; Malnutrition ; Manpower ; Gender ; Climatic data ; Forestry ; Industry ; Mining ; Electric power ; Building construction ; Trade statistics ; Foreign trade ; Domestic trade ; Foreign investment ; Tourism ; Transport ; Communication technology ; Mass media ; Public finance ; Household expenditure ; Delinquent behaviour / Myanmar
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 310 G590 MYA Record No: H046974)
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15 Nagothu, U. S. (Ed.) 2015. Food security and development: country case studies. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. 274p.
Food security ; Food production ; Food consumption ; Economic development ; Case studies ; Climate change ; Sustainable agriculture ; Agricultural development ; Environmental sustainability ; Crops ; Intensification ; Fertilizers ; Subsidies ; Population ; Gender ; Farmers ; Income ; Poverty ; Nutrition ; Feeding habits ; Malnutrition ; Technology ; State intervention ; Policy making ; Natural resources ; Land tenure / China / Philippines / Myanmar / Bangladesh / India / Ethiopia / Tanzania / Malawi / Brazil
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.19 G000 NAG Record No: H046975)
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16 McCartney, Matthew P.; Khaing, O. 2015. A country in rapid transition: can Myanmar achieve food security? In Nagothu, U. S. (Ed.). Food security and development: country case studies. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.79-103.
Food security ; Economic development ; Agricultural production ; Rice ; Poverty ; Malnutrition ; Land degradation ; Land reform ; Water availability ; Farmers ; State intervention ; Investment ; Non governmental organizations ; Private sector ; Social aspects ; Rural development ; Infrastructure / Myanmar
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.19 G000 NAG Record No: H046976)
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17 Kaushik, R. A.; Ameta, K. D. 2014. Protected horticulture in peri-urban areas: an alternative for meeting future challenges of malnutrition and livelihood security. In Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.). The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.283-290. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
Suburban agriculture ; Horticulture ; Protected cultivation ; Greenhouses ; Agricultural production ; Vegetable growing ; Living standards ; Malnutrition / India / Rajasthan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047042)
Rapid urbanisation in India faces several challenges and among them food and nutritional security appear to be the most important to feed the millions in these new urban hubs. As the majority of the population is vegetarian India needs fresh fruit and vegetables to meet their dietary needs. Under these circumstances we need quality horticultural produce along with higher production levels. On average an Indian household spends about 50 % of its expenditure on food items. Growing fruit and vegetables in and around cities increases the supply of fresh, nutritious produce and improves the urban poor’s economic access to food. Cultivation of vegetables offers distinct advantages in quality, productivity and a favourable market price to growers. Vegetable growers can substantially increase their income by protected cultivation of vegetables in the off-season as the vegetables produced during their normal season generally do not fetch good returns due to large supplies in the market. Growing urban middle class requires a regular supply of quality and high value vegetables to fulfil their demand. MPUAT in Udaipur, Rajasthan (India) has carried out research work on this aspect which is reported in this paper to give an idea about the cultivation, economy and marketing of some high value horticultural crops in different types of greenhouses under Udaipur conditions. Technology has been found very effective in producing horticultural crops out of season and economically viable crops that can be successfully utilized to combat some of the future challenges of urbanisation.
18 Fernando, Sudarshana; Semasinghe, Christina; Jayathilake, Nilanthi; Wijayamunie, R.; Wickramasinghe, N.; Dissanayake, S. 2016. City region food system situational analysis, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Rome, Italy: FAO; Accra, Ghana: Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF). 251p.
Food consumption ; Food supply ; Food safety ; Food policies ; Food production ; Food chains ; Food security ; Stakeholders ; Corporate culture ; Institutions ; Government departments ; Municipal authorities ; Private sector ; International organizations ; Legal aspects ; Legislation ; Regulations ; Policy making ; Decision making ; Human nutrition ; Malnutrition ; Sociocultural environment ; Poverty ; Natural resources management ; Climate change ; Land use ; Economic aspects ; Small scale systems ; Vegetables ; Fruits ; Livestock ; Milk production ; Crops ; Market prices ; Waste disposal ; Waste management ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Sanitation / Sri Lanka / Colombo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047774)
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19 Rao, N. (Ed.) 2016. M. S. Swaminathan in conversation with Nitya Rao: a farmer-led approach to achieving a malnutrition-free India. Chennai, India: M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. 44p.
Food security ; Human nutrition ; Malnutrition ; Protein deficiencies ; Micronutrients ; Farmer participation ; Agricultural development ; Green revolution ; Food quality ; Food safety ; Government agencies ; Policy / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.8 G635 RAO Record No: H047918)
20 Hagos, Fitsum; Mulugeta, A.; Erkossa, Teklu; Langan, Simon; Lefore, Nicole; Abebe, Yenenesh. 2017. Poverty profiles and nutritional outcomes of using spate irrigation in Ethiopia. Irrigation and Drainage, 66:577-588. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2117]
Poverty ; Indicators ; Nutrition ; Malnutrition ; Irrigation systems ; Supplemental irrigation ; Flood irrigation ; Households ; Public investment ; Smallholders ; Food security ; Food consumption ; Water management / Africa / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048061)
Development partners and public investors assume that spate irrigation reduces household poverty and malnutrition. This article examines whether the poverty profiles of smallholder farmers and the nutritional outcomes of their children have improved as a result of using spate irrigation. The study areas were in two regional states in Ethiopia. Twenty-five users each, both from traditional and modern spate irrigation schemes, and an equal number of non-users responded to a structured questionnaire. Anthropometric measures of 122 children under five were measured using a hanging scale and stadiometer. The results indicated that all poverty indices were significantly lower for the spate irrigation users compared to non-users, and were even lower for modern spate compared to traditional spate systems. Our results did not show gender differences, using sex of the household head as a crude measure of gender, in poverty profiles. Stochastic dominance tests showed that the poverty comparisons between users, traditional and modern, and non-users are statistically robust. It can be concluded that the use of spate irrigation can significantly reduce poverty, and modernizing spate systems further increases its poverty-reduction impact. However, anthropometric measures indicated that use of spate irrigation did not have significant nutritional effects, suggesting the need for nutrition-sensitive interventions, such as nutrition education and awareness and multisectoral collaboration.
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