Strengthening the links between resilience and nutrition
Title | Strengthening the links between resilience and nutrition PDF eBook |
Author | Dufour, Charlotte |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 5 |
Release | 2014-04-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Resilience for food and nutrition security
Title | Resilience for food and nutrition security PDF eBook |
Author | Fan, Shenggen |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2014-10-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0896296784 |
Economic shocks including food price shocks, environmental shocks, social shocks, political shocks, health shocks, and many other types of shocks hit poor people and communities around the world, compromising their efforts to improve their well-being. As shocks evolve and become more frequent or intense, they further threaten people’s food and nutrition security and their livelihoods. How do we help people and communities to become more resilient, to not only bounce back from shocks but to also to get ahead of them and improve their well-being so that they are less vulnerable to the next shock? How do we get better at coping with—and even thriving—in the presence of shocks?
Enhancing resilience to nutritional shocks
Title | Enhancing resilience to nutritional shocks PDF eBook |
Author | Alderman, Harold |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 2014-05-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Although undernutrition is trending downward globally, 165 million children in low?income countries were stunted (that is, had low height for age) in 2011; others suffered from deficiencies in micronutrients. Overall, undernutrition contributed to 3.1 million deaths in 2011. This burden reflects underlying conditions of poverty, limited access to health and sanitation, and insufficient time and information for adequate childcare. In addition to being consequences of these protracted obstacles, malnutrition rates are also heightened by climatic, political, and economic shocks.
Community Nutrition Resilience in Greater Miami
Title | Community Nutrition Resilience in Greater Miami PDF eBook |
Author | Franziska Alesso-Bendisch |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2019-09-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030274519 |
This book conceptualizes community nutrition resilience as a critical area that is currently lacking the attention it requires from both the public and private sectors. The book spotlights Greater Miami’s resilience efforts, both responding to slowly developing challenges such as immigration, environmental deterioration, and the wealth distribution gap, as well as sudden disasters such as hurricanes or flooding driven by climate change. Drawing on existing literature as well as interviews with professionals working in the field, the author makes recommendations on how to incorporate food systems into urban resilience planning, how to prioritize resilience on urban food agendas, and how to strengthen food system resilience through public, private, and third sector level engagement. She also highlights how the availability of and access to nutritious food impact the health, performance, and well-being of communities in the region, thus making a strong case for the prioritization of this growing issue.
Building resilient food systems: An analytical review
Title | Building resilient food systems: An analytical review PDF eBook |
Author | Iyappan, Karunya |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 2018-09-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
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In this paper we undertake an analytical review of the extant literature on the building food system resilience. While the concept of food system resilience has become a topical issue in global and national policy discussion, there is little research on how to develop operational procedures to design and implement interventions from the food system and resilience perspective. This review identifies five major entry points to strengthen food system resilience in the national context: policy, institutions, technology, capacity, and governance. Measurement issues and analytical approaches to studying food system resilience are reviewed. We conclude that while there is a large gap in the methodological approaches to study the food system resilience, beginning with the case studies of understanding specific elements of a food system and their role in enhancing resilience would be good starting point for addressing thematic issues, challenges and constraints facing resilience of the food systems.
A guidance note to enhance nutrition sensitivity in Global Environment Facility investments and programming
Title | A guidance note to enhance nutrition sensitivity in Global Environment Facility investments and programming PDF eBook |
Author | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2023-08-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9251380708 |
With the aim of enhancing nutrition sensitivity in Global Environment Facility (GEF) investments and programming, this guidance note is based on a review of 12 purposively selected GEF-6 and GEF-7 projects within the FAO portfolio identified as having the potential to be nutrition-sensitive. Following an agrifood systems approach, the guidance note provides a list of potential opportunities for action that could be considered in GEF project design to ensure nutrition gains are achieved as co-benefits alongside the formally set global environmental benefit (GEB) targets. The note is the result of the collaboration between the Food and Nutrition Division of FAO and the FAO OCB-GEF Coordination Unit.
Urban Disaster Resilience
Title | Urban Disaster Resilience PDF eBook |
Author | David Sanderson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2016-04-14 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1317533941 |
Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated areas produce significant losses in lives, livelihoods and the built environment, especially in comparison to rural areas. Poor urban dwellers, almost always the most vulnerable, too often bear the brunt. Aid agencies and urban professionals have been slowly adapting to these new conditions, but older models and practices hinder the most effective engagements. Drawing directly from the experiences of urban disasters in the Philippines, Chile, India, Thailand, Iraq, Haiti and Nepal, among other countries, Urban Disaster Resilience brings to light new collaborations and techniques for addressing the challenges of urban disasters in the coming years. Chapters range from country-specific case studies to more synthetic frameworks in order to promote innovative thinking and practical solutions. Edited by David Sanderson, Jerold S. Kayden and Julia Leis, this book is a crucial read for humanitarian and disaster specialists, urban planners and designers, architects, landscape architects, housing and economic development professionals, real estate developers, private business managers and students interested in the subject, whether based in non-governmental organizations, local, state or national governments, international agencies, private firms, or the academy.