Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty
Case studies
- Rural poverty alleviation and nutrition: IFAD's evolving experiences
- Household Food Security: Implications for Policy and Action for Rural Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition
This section includes a selection of original studies undertaken for IFAD since 1995. The studies cover specific themes or discuss household food security issues in the context of specific countries.
- Engendered Mobilization, the Key to Livelihood Security: IFAD's Experience in South Asia
- Food Security, Poverty and Women: Lessons from Rural Asia
- Household Food Security and the Role of Women: IFAD's Experience in Guatemala
- Survival, Change and Decision-Making in Rural Households: Three Village Case Studies from Eastern Morocco
- Memory Checks for Programme and Project Design
Knowledge notes
- Botswana - Sources of Food of the Basarawa in Botswana
- Ghana - Women's Contribution to Household Food Security
- Guatemala - Women's Contribution to Family Food Access
- India - Impact of Market-Oriented Production on Household Food Security
- Morocco - Women's Role in Production and Household Food Security
- South Asia - How Women and their Households Cope with Food Insecurity
Manuals, tools and guidelines
This section presents a growing collection of resources, primarily for use in project planning and design. The materials have been prepared for and/or field tested in IFAD-assisted projects
- Rapid Nutrition Surveys for Estimating Project
Impact (French | Spanish)
- Household Food Security and Gender Memory Checks
- Practical Anthropometry 101 and 102
- Manual for Bottom-up Approach in Food Security Interventions
- Comprehensive Participatory Planning and Evaluation
- Household food Security: Concepts, Indicators and Measurements
Useful links
- Focus on markets and food security at the African Green Revolution Forum
- Africa nutrition database initiative website
- Committee on Food Security
- Eldis food security resource guide
- Famine early warning system network
- FAO: Food security
- FAO: Household food security and community nutrition
- FIVIMS: Food insecurity and vulnerability information and mapping systems
- Food aid management
- Food and nutrition technical assistance
- Food Security Aid map
- Food security on the development gateway
- InterAction: best practices and Innovations
- International food policy research institute (IFPRI)
- Measurement and assessment of food deprivation and undernutrition
- Network on rural development and food security
- Nutrition Net
- Standing committee on nutrition
- World Food Programme: Vulnerability analysis and mapping (VAM)
- World Health Organization: Global database on child growth and malnutrition