Issue 30: January-February 2010 - Food security: two years later

Members of the Sunamganj Community-Based Resource Management Project sorting dried fishIn this issue
Last year, IFAD’s Asia and the Pacific Division published a newsletter on ‘Country responses to the food crisis’. It addressed the problem of rising food prices across Asia during 2007 and early 2008, which slowed down growth and poverty reduction in the region in the short and medium terms. The issue highlighted how governments and IFAD were addressing this challenge in some countries.
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Woman drying fruitTackling food insecurity in Afghanistan
Food insecurity is a major problem for the people of Afghanistan, where 30 years of conflict, recent droughts and unstable climate have strongly deteriorated rural and urban livelihoods.
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Climate-resilient less-favoured cereal crops being promoted in OrissaPromoting ‘food (+Plus)’ security in the Orissa Tribal Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme, India
Food security is guaranteed by adequate production of food grains, food availability, and physical and economic access to food.
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An Adivasi woman with her pigsImproving food security in Bangladesh
Poor people in Bangladesh, including households participating in IFAD-supported projects, suffer from periodic food shortages and a poor-quality diet. 
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Togtohjargal, a member of a herders’ group in Ikhtamir village, in her house pouring milk Improving food self-reliance in Mongolia: the National Food Security Program
“All rice, vegetable oil and sugar are imported along with about 50 per cent of Mongolian wheat and flour,” said Mr T. Badamjunai, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry
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Double-ridge maize-mulching demonstration, Linxia County, GansuIFAD-supported programme contributes to food security in Gansu Province, China
“For emperors, their citizens are all important; but for the common people, food is their heaven”. The importance of food security to the Chinese is characterized by this ancient proverb
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Children eating lunch at their school in Ranaketugana villageThe food crisis in Sri Lanka: causes and responses
The sharp increase in food prices from 2007 through early 2009 raised serious concerns about the food and nutrition situ­ation of poor people in developing countries. Sri Lanka is no exception.
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