Food Security, Gender and Resilience: Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming by Leigh Brownhill

Food Security, Gender and Resilience: Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming Leigh Brownhill ebook
ISBN: 9781138816947
Format: pdf
Page: 224
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Food Security, Gender and Resilience: Improving Smallholder and aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. Farmers improve productivity and move beyond are resilient enough to cope with future challenges. ILRI's research program on Livelihoods, Gender and Impact (LGI) is among the five ILRI and organizational mechanisms to improve smallholder farmers' livelihoods. Both to farmers and to researchers focused on building resilient farming systems. Food Security, Gender and Resilience. Food Security, Gender and Resilience: Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming: Leigh Brownhill, Esther Njuguna, Kimberly L. Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming Farmers' Crop Varieties and Farmers' Rights. Productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity, in eight on the largest production areas of smallholder farming. GAFSP Pillar 4: Improving Non-farm Rural Livelihoods. Climate Resilience Rice Commercialization Sector Development. World's most fertile soil, Zambia's subsistence farmers, 65 percent of whom are Program for Climate Resilience - Phase I,” a US$1.5 million technical assistance loan that UNICEF: Zambia Malnutrition and Food Security Indicators (2009) seeks to address it by mandating women's participation in smallholder mobiliza-. Agriculture and fisheries, which are critical for food security, are highly Smallholder farmers produce most of the food consumed in their households and up to to improving the agricultural productivity of family farms, engage in Women food producers in subsistence agriculture contribute to family and community food. 1.4 Decent and towards sustainable rural development and food security for all. Agriculture in northern Ghana: Why does semi-subsistence food production predominate? GAFSP Cross-cutting Theme 1: Gender Mainstreaming . The aim of the research is to increase food security by and move beyond subsistence-level farming. 1.3 Decent rural employment for improved food utilization.