This chapter summarizes key findings from recent reviews of evidence of the nutritional impacts of agricultural development programmes. It focuses on findings from impact evaluations of different types of nutrition-sensitive agricultural programmes, including biofortification, homestead food...

Designing effective programmes with safety net, agriculture, and nutrition components raises challenges for coordinating service delivery across these sectors in order to determine how transfers and agriculture will work together to improve nutrition. This chapter explores the potential for such a...

This chapter begins with a discussion of Ethiopia's various nutrition-related indicators, which show the persistence of child and adult malnutrition, despite some progress. It then discusses the major programmes and policies that have been launched during the past two decades within the nutrition...

This book highlights the important links between agriculture and nutrition, both direct and indirect, both theoretical and practical. It explores these relationships through various frameworks, such as value chains, programmes and policies, as well as through diverse perspectives, such as gender....

This chapter discusses the role of women in agriculture, and the ways in which their status affects the health and nutrition of their households. It highlights recent literature on the impacts of gendered and nutrition-sensitive agricultural programmes. It also goes beyond a singular focus on women ...

This introductory chapter explains why land is so important; discusses some of the issues land resources currently face, especially, in developing countries and why it should be managed and governed properly; outlines why there is an urgent need for an improved land governance and land...

This chapter summarizes the historical context of land tenure systems in Africa. This is important given that the book is aimed at providing insights from Rwanda for other countries willing to initiate land reforms similar to Rwanda. It also draws attention to the developments and changes of land...

The chapter describes the key exercises that were undertaken as part of preparing the ground for the land tenure reform programme. First, a detailed explanation of why Rwanda introduced the land tenure reform programme from a social, political and economic perspective is provided. Second, it traces ...

This chapter focuses on how the policy and regulatory frameworks were established which supported the LTR programme. It also describes some of the policy and legal instruments and how they were aimed at guiding and supporting the envisaged land tenure reform. It also describes the land tenure...

This chapter provides details on the institutional framework that was developed to guide the land tenure reform (LTR) programme implementation, defining each institution's mandate and how they interacted with each other as well as how the capacity of these institutions was built to apportion...