Volume 22, Issue 3: Food Security and the Environment
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Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability in the New Guinea Highlands: Vulnerable People, Vulnerable Places
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1991)Summary In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea the vulnerability of people to a low quality and at times disrupted food supply, and the vulnerability of soil and vegetation resources to degradation, both relate to an ... -
Editorial
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Food Security and Environmental Degradation in Northern Nigeria: Demographic Perspectives
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1991)Summary The Malthusian debate over the effects of population growth on food security and natural resource use in Hausaland, Nigeria is reviewed. It is argued that a resolution of the debate at the macro level is not ... -
Natural Resource Management at the Local Level: Will This Bring Food Security to the Sahel?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1991)Summary This paper argues that reform of resource management systems is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for achieving greater food security in the Sahel. Such reform would involve the transfer of rights and ... -
An NGO Perspective on Food Security and the Environment: Acord in the Sahel and Horn of Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1991)Summary The paper presents three case studies of NGO programmes in Africa and suggests that there is a need to resolve some of the immediate needs of the poor in order to create space for them to be able to address ... -
Environmental and Food Security Objectives in Rural Project Design
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1991)Summary Because of their immediate needs to ensure short?term food security, many smallholders are being forced to adopt natural resource management practices which are unsustainable. With the greening of aid, much rural ... -
Globalism Versus Villagism: Food Security and Environmental National and International Levels
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1991)Summary Links between food security and the environment occur at national and international levels, as well as locally. But perceptions of the relationship at global and village levels diverge widely. Considering a number ...