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Item Food fight: From plunder and profit to people and planet(Book, 2025-05-13) Gillespie, StuartFood is life, but our food system is killing us. Designed in a different century for a different purpose—to mass-produce cheap calories to prevent famine—it’s now generating obesity and ill-health and driving the climate crisis. We need to transform it into one that can nourish all eight billion of us and the planet we live on. In Food Fight, Stuart Gillespie shares the insights he’s gleaned over a forty-year career in food, nutrition, and health, revealing how the global food system we once relied upon for nutrition has warped into the very thing making us sick. Many of us are now simultaneously overweight and undernourished. From its origins in colonial plunder through to the past few decades of neo-liberalism, our food system now lies in the tight grip of a handful of powerful transnational corporations that are playing for profit at any cost—aided by governments who let them get away with it. With his eye trained on solutions within our grasp, Gillespie also celebrates success stories from around the world, driven by remarkable citizens, social movements, policy makers, and politicians. These case studies offer hope that, by organizing, sharing, and learning, we can build a better food future for ourselves and for our children. Both unflinching exposé and revolutionary call to arms, Food Fight shines a light inside the black box of politics and power before mapping a way toward a new system that gives us hope for a future of global health and justice.Item With a little help: Young women farmers’ experiences in India(Book Chapter, 2025) Srinivasan, Sharada; Narayanan, SudhaWe present four case studies of young women farmers in India, two each from Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh. As outlined in the previous chapter, the case studies offer an in-depth view into how young women become farmers, their experiences as farmers and the challenges they face. They highlight similarities but also differences across the respondents. The concluding section draws implications from the four case studies to reflect on experiences of other young women farmers in this study but also what they illustrate of young women farmers’ experiences more broadly.Item No country for young women farmers: A situation analysis for India(Book Chapter, 2025) Narayanan, Sudha; Srinivasan, SharadaIn spite of their significant role in agriculture in India, women lack recognition as farmers and face structural barriers related to land ownership, access to resources and markets, and mobility, which are associated with high levels of gender discrimination and gender-based violence (Panda and Agarwal 2005; UNODC 2018). There is a stark absence of an intersectional analysis (based on age, disability, class, education) in the otherwise substantial body of scholarship on women in agriculture and the gender barriers that they encounter, tending instead to generalize a communal female experience. This lacuna is apparent in this current review of the situation of young women farmers in India. At the policy level, this silence is even more deafening; the predicament of young women farmers is something of a policy desert.Item Conditional cash transfer programs and health(Book Chapter, 2010) Morris, Saul S.Item The impacts of conditional cash transfer programs on education(Book Chapter, 2010) Behrman, Jere R.; Parker, Susan W.Item The cost of conditional cash transfer programs: A comparative analysis of three programs in Latin America(Book Chapter, 2010) Caldes, Natalia; Coady, David; Maluccio, John A.Item The economics of conditional cash transfers(Book Chapter, 2010) Behrman, Jere R.; Skoufias, EmmanuelItem The political economy of social protection in Honduras and Nicaragua(Book Chapter, 2010) Moore, CharityItem The new generation of social programs in Brazil(Book Chapter, 2010) Pero, Valeria; Szerman, DimitriItem The evolving antipoverty agenda in Mexico: The political economy of PROGRESA and oportunidades(Book Chapter, 2010) Yaschine, Iliana; Orozco, Monica E.Item Summary and Implications for the CAADP Agenda [in 2013 Annual Trends and Outlook Report](Book Chapter, 2014-10-08) Badiane, Ousmane; Makombe, Tsitsi; Bahiigwa, GodfreyThe entire agenda of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) reflects the determination of African countries to put an end to decades of economic decline and deteriorating living conditions, through improved economic and policy governance that leads to better economic growth and poverty reduction outcomes. CAADP, in particular, demonstrates the strategic choice of African leaders to focus on agriculture as a major contributor to growth, poverty reduction, and food and nutrition security. When discussing resilience in relation to CAADP, a key indicator of progress is greater availability and accessibility of food among the poor and most vulnerable. Stronger trade performance by African countries in agricultural markets, in and outside Africa, constitutes an important pathway to that goal. Higher competitiveness and increased market shares generate higher incomes, while better market integration reduces the level of volatility in food markets. Combined, both raise the capacity to absorb supply shocks and price shocks, and thus enhance the resilience of domestic food markets.Item Introduction [in 2013 Annual Trends and Outlook Report](Book Chapter, 2014-10-08) Badiane, Ousmane; Makombe, Tsitsi; Bahiigwa, GodfreyAs the official monitoring and evaluation (M&E) report of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) assesses trends and progress on 30 CAADP core indicators as well as the implementation agenda itself. And starting in 2011, the ATOR has featured a selected topic of strategic importance to the CAADP agenda, to help guide its planning, implementation, and dialogue processes. The 2013 ATOR contributes to the emerging debate on resilience by taking a comprehensive look at how trade can enhance food security for Africa’s poor and vulnerable through greater resilience of local food markets to environmental and economic shocks. In particular, the report focuses on the role of resilience as it relates to the capacity of local food markets to absorb the effects of economic, biophysical, or other shocks, to minimize their impact on the short or long term food security of the poor and vulnerable.Item New breeding trends in sorghum(Book Chapter, 2024-11-13) Elango, Dinakaran; Wang, Wanyan; Francis, Neethu; Chatterjee, Debamalya; Murithi, Ann; Chandra, Visalakshi; Parthasarathi, Theivasigamani; David, Einstein Mariya; Jayaraman, Vanitha; Govindarajan, Kamaleeswari; Gogoi, Bonti; Punnuri, Somashekhar; Thudi, Mahendar; Govindaraj, Mahalingam; Are, Ashok Kumar; Jiao, Yinping; Chopra, SurinderItem Missing markets, migration and crop biodiversity in the milpa system in Mexico: A household-farm model(Book Chapter, 2006) van Dusen, M. EricItem Seed supply and the on-farm demand for diversity: A case study from eastern Ethiopia(Book Chapter, 2006) Lipper, Leslie; Cavatassi, Romina; Winters, PaulItem An attribute-based index of coffee diversity and implications for on-farm conservation in Ethiopia(Book Chapter, 2006) Wale, Edilegnaw; Mburu, JohnItem Institutions, stakeholders and the management of crop biodiversity on Hungarian family farms(Book Chapter, 2006) Bela, Györgyi; Balázs, Bálint; Pataki, GyörgyiItem Cooperatives, wheat diversity and the crop productivity in southern Italy(Book Chapter, 2006) Di Falco, Salvatore; Perrings, CharlesItem Rural development and the diversity of potatoes on farms in Cajamarca, Peru(Book Chapter, 2006) Winters, Paul; Hintz, L. Hernando; Ortiz, OscarItem Crop valuation and farmer response to change: Implications for In Situ conservation of maize in Mexico(Book Chapter, 2006) Dyer, George A.