Blog: Obama’s Global Food Security Act - a new global politics of provisions?
Terrorist attacks and a related rash of populist political uprisings in this hot and hungry El Nino season of mid-2016 pushed at least one event off the headlines it should rightly have occupied. This was the passage of the United States Government’s ‘Global Food Security Act of 2016’, signed by President Obama in July. Naomi Hossein, a Research Fellow in the Power and Popular Politics Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies, explores the global politics of food provision.
While Government and NGOs in Bangladesh have undertaken many interventions designed to help households escape poverty, little is known about their long-term impact. Using a new longitudinal data set spanning 12 years and more than 1800 households, this project will investigate the long-term impact of three anti-poverty interventions—microfinance, agricultural technology, and educational transfers—on several measures of well-being and compare their cost-effectiveness.
Exploring the long-term impact of development interventions within life-history narratives in rural Bangladesh
Access, adoption, and diffusion: understanding the long-term impacts of improved vegetable and fish technologies in Bangladesh
Principal Investigator: Nicola Ansell. Lead Organistion: Brunel University
Co-investigators: Lorraine Van Blerk (University of Dundee) and Elsbeth Jane Robson (University of Hull)
Co-investigators: Lorraine Van Blerk (University of Dundee) and Elsbeth Jane Robson (University of Hull)
Learning from young people about their lives: using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa
The new variant famine hypothesis: moving beyond the household in exploring links between AIDS and food insecurity in southern Africa
Youth, AIDS and Rural Livelihoods in Southern Africa
The new variant famine hypothesis: moving beyond the household in exploring links between AIDS and food insecurity in southern Africa
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