Food Policy

Obama touts $3bn in pledges to help feed Africa

President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a “moral imperative” to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world.

Publication Date: 
19/05/2012
Dawn (Pakistan)
Tags:
United States Of America (US), Food Security, Malnutrition, Africa, Agriculture, Food Policy, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Poverty, Kenya
Agriculture

Cities feeding people: an update on urban agriculture in equatorial Africa

For several decades, a diverse literature has claimed that urban agriculture has the potential for hunger and poverty alleviation. This article reviews empirical data from equatorial Africa that touch on this assertion, updating the work on the subject published in the mid-1990s. Research, largely from East Africa but also including Cameroon in West Central Africa, appearing in several recent and currently emerging publications is assessed and compared. The article

Publication Date: 
01/10/2010
Diana Lee-Smith
Environment & Urbanization
22
2
483-499
Tags:
Urban Habitat, Urban Agriculture, Africa, Food Security, Poverty, Livestock, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Vegetables, Poultry, Cattle, Pigs
Health

Accelerating reductions in undernutrition: what can nutrition governance tell us?

In order to accelerate progress on undernutrition reduction we need to understand how the governance of nutrition programmes leads to successful outcomes. Based on evidence from six countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru and Zambia, this briefing informs government leaders, policymakers and key stakeholders of the Scaling Up Nutrition movement: how they can better mobilise political commitment for undernutrition reduction and how they can facilitate cooperation across national and local institutions, and among nutritionists, civil society and the private sector.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2012
Institute of Development Studies
Tags:
Nutrition, Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru, Zambia, Governance, Children, Private Sector
Sanitation

Setting course towards water, sanitation for all

Ahead of the World Bank's Spring Meetings here this week, government ministers from almost 40 developing countries are meeting with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UK International Development Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell, Chair of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation HRH the Prince of Orange, and major donors and water and sanitation sector organizations, to discuss speeding up global access to water and sanitation.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2012
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
World Bank, Water Supply, Sanitation, UNICEF, WHO, Drinking Water, Developing Countries, Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo
Health

Accounting for water quality in monitoring access to safe drinking-water as part of the Millennium Development Goals: lessons from five countries

The objective of the study was to determine how data on water source quality affect assessments of progress towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on access to safe drinking-water.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2012
Rob ES Bain, Stephen W Gundry, Jim A Wright & et al
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
90
3
228-235A
Tags:
Water Quality, Health Effects, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Standards, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Jordan, Nigeria, Tajikistan, Sanitation, Waterborne diseases, Faecal Coliforms, Arsenic, Fluoride, India
Biodiversity

Uniting Church and science for conservation

Humans have been cutting Ethiopian forests for fuel and agriculture for centuries. Only about 35,000 fragments remain in the northern highlands, ranging in size from 3 to 300 hectares. These fragments escaped deforestation because of their religious and spiritual importance; they are protected by, and are an integral part of, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. (Letter)

Publication Date: 
24/02/2012
Catherine L. Cardelús, Margaret D. Lowman, Alemaheyu Wassie Eshete
Science
335
6071
915-917
Tags:
Religious Places, Environment, Ethiopia, Forest Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity Conservation
Agriculture

Can geographical factors determine the choices of farmers in the Ethiopian highlands to trade in livestock markets?

Proximity and affiliation to the local market appear to be two of the most relevant factors to explain farmer's choices to select a particular trading point. Physical barriers may limit the options, especially in developing countries. A network of villages linked by traders/farmer-traders sharing livestock markets was built with field data collected in 75 villages from 8 kebelles in the Wassona Werna wereda of the Ethiopian Highlands.

Publication Date: 
15/02/2012
Angel Ortiz-Pelaez, Getaneh Ashenafi, Francois Roger & et al
PLoS ONE
7
2
1-11
Tags:
Agriculture, Farmers, Livestock, Ethiopia, Developing Countries
Energy

UN plans solar energy for 33 million people in Africa, Asia

Low-cost solar panels and solar batteries will be provided to poor communities in 14 countries in Africa and Asia in the next four years, the UN Development Programme said Thursday.

A total of 33 million people in the 14 countries will be able to make use of solar energy for commercial businesses and economic development, using the solar panels to be developed by a Mauritius-based company called ToughStuff, UNDP said.

Publication Date: 
17/02/2012
Business Recorder (Pakistan)
Tags:
Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Batteries, Africa, Asia, UNDP, Economic Development, Kerosene, Biomass, Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, South Asia, Nepal, Electricity
Agriculture

India, Ethiopia to work closely on agri research

India and Ethiopia have agreed to strengthen bilateral relations through greater cooperation in the agri sector, with the two sides signing an MoU to work closely on agricultural research.

A memorandum of understanding has been signed here on Monday by the heads of Indian and Ethiopian agricultural research institutes.

On the occasion, the Ethiopian Agriculture State Minister, Mr Wondyerad Mandefro, said the MoU helps to strengthen bilateral relations, undertake joint agricultural research, enhance production and facilitate technology transfer.

Publication Date: 
14/12/2011
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Ethiopia, Agricultural Research, International Cooperation, Technology Transfer
Climate Change

Biggest polluters join in opposing EU road map

The world's three biggest polluters joined in opposing a European Union (EU) proposal for talks aimed at drawing up a new climate treaty, dimming the chances of extending the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gases.

J M Mauskar, the Indian government official leading his nation's delegation at United Nations climate talks, rejected the EU plan as a "quid-pro-quo.&" The EU said it would agree to extend Kyoto's restrictions only if all nations made promises to cut fossil fuel burning.

Publication Date: 
05/12/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
South Africa, COP 17 (Durban Summit), European Union (EU), Kyoto Protocol, Green House Gases, Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming, Forests, COP 16 (Cancun Summit), Ethiopia, Gabon, Nauru, India, China, Developing Countries, Climate Change

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