Agriculture, nutrition and health essentials for non-specialist development professionals
- Organisation: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Description: This brief report aims to outline basic concepts and definitions, tools and indicators, and common interventions used by each development sector, in order to provide a baseline level of knowledge and understanding on which to build dialogue and collaboration.
- Geographic location: Global
- Access: Open access
- Themes: Agriculture, nutrition, health, agriculture policy, food systems, concepts and definition
Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use
- Authors: George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang, William A. Masters
- Description: Economics of Agricultural Development examines the causes, severity, and effects of poverty, population growth, and malnutrition in developing countries. It discusses potential solutions to these problems, progress made in many countries in recent years, and the implications of globalization for agriculture, poverty, and the environment.
- Geographic location: Global
- Access: Free for teaching faculty
- Themes: Agriculture, nutrition, health, agriculture policy, food systems, concepts and definition
Foresight 2.0: Future Food Systems: For people, our planet and prosperity
- Authors: lobal Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition
- Description: This evidence-based report offers policy solutions to improve the quality of diets using a food systems approach through promoting availability, accessibility, affordability, desirability, and sustainable, healthy diets for all.
- Geographic location: Global
- Access: Open access
- Themes: Agriculture, nutrition, health, agriculture policy, food systems, sustainability
IPC Food Security Country Analyses
- Organisation: The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)
- Description: The IPC is an innovative multi-partner initiative for improving food security and nutrition analysis and decision-making. By using the IPC classification and analytical approach, Governments, UN Agencies, NGOs, civil society and other relevant actors, work together to determine the severity and magnitude of acute and chronic food insecurity, and acute malnutrition situations in a country, according to internationally-recognised scientific standards.
- Geographic location: Global
- Access: Open access
- Themes: Food security, nutrition, humanitarian crises, fragile contexts
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