Overcoming Hunger And Rural Poverty Brazilian Experiences

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251090565

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OVERCOMING HUNGER AND RURAL POVERTY BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCES by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Brazil has a long tradition of public policies and efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty. The right to food is enshrined in Amendment No. 64/2010 of Brazil’s Constitution as an obligation of the State, and the country has a very progressive food security law that institutionalizes the policy and lays the foundations for broad-based social participation in priority setting, expressed in the National Council on Food and Nutrition Security (CONSEA). It was this wealth of experience (reflected in programmes and plans such as Zero Hunger, Bolsa Família and Brazil Without Extreme Poverty, applied nationwide from 2003 to 2013), together with other factors, that took the country off the Hunger Map in 2014. This report is designed to update the information and describe concrete Brazilian initiatives to facilitate South-South cooperation to a wider audience, including policymakers working to improve food security and fight poverty. In other words, it is a manual of good practice for public au thorities, technical personnel, NGOs and the general public in other Latin American, Caribbean and African countries

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251349687

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Rural poverty analysis by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Reducing rural poverty is a key objective of FAO. To achieve this goal, the Organization must reach the poor and the extremely poor in rural areas, analysing their needs and aspirations and providing effective guidance for the design of policies and investments that foster inclusive and sustainable development. This guide was developed to strengthen the Organization’s work on rural poverty reduction and inclusivity over the coming years. It provides key information to measure poverty, characterize rural populations, and identify their constraints to target them more accurately. The guide includes five chapters. Chapter 1 explains the structure, content, and use of the guide, as well as its intended users and objectives. Chapter 2 discusses how poverty is measured, focusing on the different indicators that can be used, depending on the context, specific circumstances, data availability and policy objectives. Chapter 3 provides guidance on how to build a poverty profile and produce poverty maps to understand who the poor are and where they are located. Chapter 4 focuses on the targeting process, on various targeting techniques and on how to choose one over another to ensure that programmes and projects effectively combat poverty, particularly in rural areas. Finally, Chapter 5 sets the next steps for the development of further analytical guides. The various chapters provide an overview of both widely used and emerging techniques in poverty analysis, focusing on quantitative methods, and giving constant attention to FAO’s areas of work and the challenges posed by operating in rural areas.

Author : Davis, Kristin E., ed.,Babu, Suresh Chandra, ed.,Ragasa, Catherine, ed.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896293755

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Agricultural extension: Global status and performance in selected countries by Davis, Kristin E., ed.,Babu, Suresh Chandra, ed.,Ragasa, Catherine, ed. Pdf

Agricultural transformation and development are critical to the livelihoods of more than a billion small-scale farmers and other rural people in developing countries. Extension and advisory services play an important role in such transformation and can assist farmers with advice and information, brokering and facilitating innovations and relationships, and dealing with risks and disasters. Agricultural Extension: Global Status and Performance in Selected Countries provides a global overview of agricultural extension and advisory services, assesses and compares extension systems at the national and regional levels, examines the performance of extension approaches in a selected set of country cases, and shares lessons and policy insights. Drawing on both primary and secondary data, the book contributes to the literature on extension by applying a common and comprehensive framework — the “best-fit” approach — to assessments of extension systems, which allows for comparison across cases and geographies. Insights from the research support reforms — in governance, capacity, management, and advisory methods — to improve outcomes, enhance financial sustainability, and achieve greater scale. Agricultural Extension should be a valuable resource for policymakers, extension practitioners, and others concerned with agricultural development.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,International Fund for Agriculture Development
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251378670

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A learning framework for inclusive, integrated and innovative public policy cycles for family farming by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,International Fund for Agriculture Development Pdf

Public policies for family farming – when done appropriately – provide a perfect match between different policy areas related to productive, economic, social, environmental and cultural dimensions of sustainable food systems. The Learning framework for inclusive, integrated and innovative public policy cycles for family farming was developed under the framework of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) to support policymakers, family farmers’ organizations and other relevant stakeholders to increase their understanding of public policy cycles and family farming related policies. This technical and methodological capacity development programme is adaptable to local, national or regional priorities. It offers a holistic perspective to building knowledge and capacity of the various actors involved in the design, implementation and review of effective and coherent policies and programmes. This learning framework responds to the needs of multiple actors, expressed during the UNDFF pre-consultation process, to identify ways to create truly effective and efficient policy frameworks for family farming, and to better engage and participate during policy processes. To provide an appropriate answer to these needs the learning framework was designed through a participatory process building on the experience of governments and family farmers’ organizations, researchers and UN staff, gathering inputs from all relevant actors around the world.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789251093948

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Experience of BRICS countries in the development of nutrition-sensitive social protection programs by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Background paper prepared for the Global forum on nutrition-sensitive social protection programs, September 2015, Moscow, Russian Federation. Building on the momentum created by ICN2, the BRICS countries have actively participated in and facilitated global discussions on nutrition-sensitive social protection; in particular, during the Global Forum on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection, held in Moscow, Russian Federation, from 10 to 11 September 2015, which brought together policy-makers, researchers and experts in the areas of nutrition and social protection from 27 countries.

Author : Martin Khor,Kok Peng Khor,Lim Li Lin
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842771337

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Good Practices and Innovative Experiences in the South (Volume 3) by Martin Khor,Kok Peng Khor,Lim Li Lin Pdf

This is part of a three-volume collection which provides information on innovative development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa that have actually worked. The 50 cases presented illustrate a wide spectrum of economic and environmental policy and practice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Agricultural assistance
ISBN : WISC:89081594699

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Food Security Assessment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Josué de Castro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Food supply
ISBN : UCAL:B3891325

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Geography of Hunger by Josué de Castro Pdf

Author : Bill Pritchard,Anu Rammohan,Madhushree Sekher,S. Parasuraman,Chetan Choithani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136304804

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Feeding India by Bill Pritchard,Anu Rammohan,Madhushree Sekher,S. Parasuraman,Chetan Choithani Pdf

Food security is one of the twenty-first century’s key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not only does India account for approximately one quarter of the world’s under-nourished persons, it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may not provide an assumed panacea to food security. This book takes on this challenge. It explains how India’s chronic food security problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic, political and environmental processes. It contends that under-nutrition and hunger are lagging components of human development in India precisely because the interfaces between these aspects of the food security problem have not been adequately understood in policy-making communities. Only through an integrative approach spanning the social and environmental sciences, are the fuller dimensions of this problem revealed. A well-rounded appreciation of the problem is required, informed by the FAO’s conception of food security as encompassing availability (production), access (distribution) and utilisation (nutritional content), as well as by Amartya Sen’s notions of entitlements and capabilities.

Author : Jáder Ferreira Leite,Magda Dimenstein,Candida Dantas,Joao Paulo Macedo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030829964

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Psychology and Rural Contexts by Jáder Ferreira Leite,Magda Dimenstein,Candida Dantas,Joao Paulo Macedo Pdf

This book brings together a selection of theoretical reflections, empirical researches and professional experiences to showcase the increasing production of psychological studies in rural contexts developed in Latin America in recent years. Psychology’s tradition of science and eminently urban profession has produced a void of reflections and approaches on important actors of the societies that constitute their existence in rural contexts and in relation – whether of integration, conflicts and contradictions – with urban agents. But a new generation of psychologists are turning their attention to rural contexts, especially in Latin America. This volume aims to present a selection of these psychological studies and interventions developed in rural contexts from a psychosocial and interdisciplinary perspective, developed together with various social actors who live and work in rural spaces, that have an important relationship with land and nature both in terms of the elaboration of their history, the production of their subjectivities and identity ties with the territory, and the engagement in struggles for the right to land and for public policies that guarantee access to education and health services, technical assistance and infrastructure for its working activities. The book is divided in five parts, each one dedicated to a dimension of psychosocial studies and interventions in rural contexts: theoretical approaches; mental health and rural populations; social movements, communities and resistance practices; gender relations and subjectivation processes; and environment and sustainability. Chapters in each axis prioritize reports of experiences and research conducted with participatory approaches, producing new perspectives and reflections that contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field of psychology, both regionally and globally.

Author : Joachim Von Braun,Ruth Elaine Hill,Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896296602

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The Poorest and Hungry by Joachim Von Braun,Ruth Elaine Hill,Rajul Pandya-Lorch Pdf

Have the lives of the world's poorest, neediest people improved over the past few decades? What policies have lifted some people out of the worst forms of poverty, and what conditions keep others mired within it? The Poorest and Hungry: Assessment, Analyses, and Actions answers such questions, bringing together studies of both what causes and what reduces severe poverty from a diverse group of development specialists. The book focuses on the poorest and hungry in society and identifies areas for action. Stable economic growth; targeted social programs and insurance that invest in and protect nutrition, health, and education; and political and social inclusion of previously marginalized groups emerge as the essential requirements for poverty reduction, and this book's contributors identify strategies for promoting all three. The Poorest and Hungry is an important resource for policymakers, development specialists, and others concerned with helping the world's poorest people.

Author : M. Jahi Chappell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520293083

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Beginning to End Hunger by M. Jahi Chappell Pdf

Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world’s most successful city-run food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition, leading it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil’s renowned Zero Hunger programs. The secretariat’s work with local family farmers shows how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. While inevitably imperfect, Belo Horizonte offers a vision of a path away from food system dysfunction, unsustainability, and hunger. In this convincing case study, M. Jahi Chappell establishes the importance of holistic approaches to food security, suggests how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for enacting policy change. With these tools, we can take the next steps toward achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds.

Author : Martin Khor,Li Lin Lim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Appropriate technology
ISBN : UVA:X006135083

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Good Practices and Innovative Experiences in the South by Martin Khor,Li Lin Lim Pdf

Author : Marcela Vásquez-Léon,Brian J. Burke,Timothy J. Finan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780816534746

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Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change by Marcela Vásquez-Léon,Brian J. Burke,Timothy J. Finan Pdf

"Provides a cross-country comparison of smallholder agricultural cooperatives in Paraguay, Brazil and Colombia, revealing immense opportunities and challenges for community development, empowerment, and social change"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sachin Chaturvedi,Thomas Fues,Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780320663

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Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers by Sachin Chaturvedi,Thomas Fues,Elizabeth Sidiropoulos Pdf

The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation. This expert, topical volume explores the development policies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, analysing how South-South cooperation has evolved and where it differs from traditional development cooperation. This vital new collection brings together first-hand experience from these countries to provide a forward-looking analysis of the current global architecture of development cooperation and of the possible convergence of traditional and emerging development actors.