Current situation and literature in relation to poverty, food security and employment is reviewed. The following issues are discussed: employment-poverty links in theory and strategies; past experiences and reviews; and, conceptual framework and research questions. A table presents a guide to the...

This report examines the linkages between the food and financial crises, stressing that, although the food and financial crises developed from different underlying causes, they are becoming intertwined in complex ways through their implications for financial and economic stability, food security,...

This publication provides information and tools that can be useful for national governments in assessing the impact of the global food crises in their country and in assisting country-level actions to address such food crises.

This book analyses the main aspects of the links between the globalization of agri-food systems and poverty and highlights primary issues in the ongoing debate on the impact of globalization. It focuses on how globalization of agri-food systems affects the world's poor and its impact on food and...

Climate change could potentially interrupt progress toward a world without hunger. A robust and coherent global pattern is discernible of the impacts of climate change on crop productivity that could have consequences for food availability. The stability of whole food systems may be at risk under...

Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals critically depends on well-functioning food systems which can provide sufficient and healthy food for all in an environmentally sustainable, economically viable and socially equitable manner. However, current food systems are failing on all of these...

Food prices are soaring across the world. The causes of this food price inflation, including supply constraints and macroeconomic factors, are discussed, along with the role of speculation. It is argued that policy-makers and central banks need to counteract present food price inflation trends and...

The paper suggests that food security should be viewed from three different perspectives: food security as a basic human right, food insecurity as a symptom of broader poverty problems and finally food insecurity as a cause of poverty and underdevelopment. A comprehensive framework of causes of ...