Food & Nutrition

Information on Food Security in Sudan - A New Website from the FAO of the United Nations

January 14, 2010 - 5:35pm

FAO’s Sudan Institutional Capacity Programme: Food Security Information for Action (SIFSIA) has a new website:

Food For Crises: Developing an option for humanitarian aid (Master students' project)

August 4, 2009 - 11:32am

A young, international and multidisciplinary group of students, the Food Aid Team of the European Masters Degree in Food Studies, have decided to handle the problems of provision of food during humani

Education That Pays For Itself 2009

August 3, 2009 - 1:51pm

Education That Pays For Itself 2009, the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Education ,will bring together some of the world’s lea

A Practical Tool for Field Based Humanitarian Aid Workers.

June 7, 2009 - 2:27pm

A very comprehensive resource that complements AWN's advice pages - take a look. Culled from the Dev-Zone Development email list.

Confidence that is Based on the Soundest Kind of Evidence

February 7, 2009 - 3:51am

Here is an excerpt from the “Opening Keynote” to the “Good Jobs, Green Jobs” Conference (Feb.

Paper on: "Food crises and food markets : implications for emergency response in Southern Africa"

January 24, 2009 - 5:15am

This paper published by USAID and supported by Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Economics | USAID. Bur. for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade. Ofc of Agriculture | USAID. Bur.

Event: Are supplementary feeding programmes effective in emergencies?

December 28, 2008 - 8:17pm

Are supplementary feeding programmes effective in emergencies?
13 January 2009
Overseas Development Institute
London
To register, email
hpn@odi.org.uk

Targeting - A new E-learning Course from the EC-FAO Food Security Programme

November 10, 2008 - 3:22pm

The course illustrates the basic principles related to the design, evaluation and monitoring of targeting systems.

Meager Living of Haitians Is Wiped Out by Storms

September 11, 2008 - 6:05am

By MARC LACEY
Published: September 10, 2008

GONAÏVES, Haiti — Their cupboards were virtually bare before the winds started whipping, the skies opened up and this seaside city filled like...

Attempts to Aid Desperate Haitians Hindered by Floodwaters

September 9, 2008 - 1:43am

By Jonathan M. Katz
Associated Press
Friday, September 5, 2008; Page A12

Somalia: Hunger and terror

September 9, 2008 - 1:34am

Sep 4th 2008 | NAIROBI
From The Economist print edition
There has been no pause in the country’s relentless downward spiral

UK gives £50m to Bangladesh climate change fund

September 8, 2008 - 2:10am

* John Vidal, environment editor
* The Guardian,
* Monday September 8 2008

U.S. Offers Storm Aid to Cuba Only Through Relief Groups

September 5, 2008 - 3:02am

By MARC LACEY
Published: September 4, 2008

India flood stranded still wait

September 3, 2008 - 2:31am

Up to half a million people are still stranded by flood waters in the Indian state of Bihar, aid workers say.

Zimbabwe Lifts Ban on Aid Groups, but Its Effects Linger

August 30, 2008 - 1:36pm

By CELIA W. DUGGER
Published: August 29, 2008

JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe lifted an almost three-month-old ban on the work of aid groups on Friday. The government had imposed the ban because....

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