The importance of poverty reduction to the world development agenda has motivated greater interest in the geographic dimensions of poverty and food security. This special issue of Food Policy includes examples of poverty and food security mapping used to support policy development in agricultural...
Hyman, Glenn
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Larrea, C
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Farrow, Andrew
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[Methods, results and policy implications of poverty and food security mapping assessments]
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Methods, results and policy implications of poverty and food security mapping assessments
We examine the geographic dimensions of food consumption in Ecuador, which has one of the highest rates of chronic infant undernutrition in Latin America. We use statistical and spatial analyses to examine the distribution of food consumption and food poverty and to test and generate hypotheses o...
Farrow, Andrew
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Larrea, C
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Hyman, Glenn
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Lema, G
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[Exploring the spatial variation of food poverty in Ecuador]
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Exploring the spatial variation of food poverty in Ecuador
Climate change will cause shifts in the areas suitable for cultivation of a wide range of crops including beans (Jarvis and Lane, 2007). Sub-Saharan Africa will be the region most affected.
While annual rainfall is likely to increase in East Africa due to climate change there is less consensus on...
Katungi, Enid
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Farrow, Andrew
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[Targeting bean research in the face of drought and climate change]
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Targeting bean research in the face of drought and climate change
Hyman, Glenn
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Suan Pheng Kam
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Legg, C.
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Farrow, Andrew
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Hodson, D
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Benson, T.
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[Poverty and food security mapping at country-level: lessons learned from seven case studies]
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Poverty and food security mapping at country-level: lessons learned from seven case studies