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1.	FAO-EC project to promote climate-smart farming
	Author: FAO	Date Written: 16 January 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.fao.org/
	Key Words: food security, agriculture, investment, climate change
	Summary & Comment: "Climate smart agriculture" is a new approach to food security as it recognizes the relationship between between agriculture, poverty and climate change. Of course, this isn't a one-size-fits all solution - climate smart farming has to be cognisant of local geography to be effective. Investments in Malawi and Zambia will help these c . . . [expand]
2.	New crop varieties can cut poverty, study finds
	Author: Bernard Appiah	Date Written: 3 January 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: SciDevNet
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.scidev.net
	Key Words: food security, technology, productivity
	Summary & Comment: Recent analysis has shown that the both the food security and wealth of rural households can be improved by adopting new crop varieties. The hard part is getting governments and local institutions of accept the research. CJW
3.	Nigeria: Not everyone pleased with new vitamin A-fortified cassava
	Author: Busani Bafana	Date Written: 30 December 2011
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL: http://www.ips.org/
	Key Words: food security, malnutrition, biofortification
	Summary & Comment: There has always been discomfort around crop manipulation. The specter of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has loomed large in Europe and North America and is now being faced in Africa. But here, modified crops, whether through artifical or natural gene selection, could help to reduce the hundreds of thousands on women and children blinded or . . . [expand]
4.	Getting early warning right in the Sahel
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 23 December 2011
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: aid policy, governance, malnuttrition, food security
	Summary & Comment: While famine alerts from the Sahel region intuitively link food production with malnutrition, the issue is far more complex. Malnutrition is also due to crises in economics, water quality, sanitation and health care in the region. So, unless the international community is willing to throw something other that food aid at the problem, there will be . . . [expand]
5.	At the nexus of agrofuels, land grabs and hunger – Part 2
	Author: Kanya D’Almeida	Date Written: 7 December 2011
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
	Secondary Category: Ecology	Source URL: http://www.ips.org
	Key Words: fertilizer, green, energy, WBG, food security
	Summary & Comment: The race for 'green energy' threatens not only food security but also the long-term economy in some African countries. The World Bank Group is working closely with governments to overturn the rights of local farmers in order to facilitate landgrabs by multinational corporations. Is Africa being re-colonized? CJW
6.	The great milk robbery
	Author: GRAIN	Date Written: 7 December 2011
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: GRAIN
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.grain.org
	Key Words: Milk, small farmers, pastoralists, economy, corporations,
	Summary & Comment: "A new report by GRAIN documents the importance of milk to the livelihoods and health of the poor in many countries of the global South. Most dairy markets are supplied by small-scale vendors who collect milk from small farmers and pastoralists. But they are under threat from dairy corporations, like Nestlé, and other players, like PepsiCo and . . . [expand]
7.	At the nexus of agrofuels, land grabs and hunger – Part 1
	Author: Kanya D’Almeida	Date Written: 6 December 2011
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
	Secondary Category: Ecology	Source URL: http://www.ips.org/
	Key Words: green, energy, hunger, carbon credits
	Summary & Comment: The huge profits to be gained from 'green energy' sources mean biofuels are neither clean nor green. Industrial agriculture spews greenhouse gases into the environment, huge tracts of palm oil monocultures replace biodiverse flora and locals lose out on employment opportunities. And yet it's not just multinational corporations and th . . . [expand]