This report presents a case study assessing the vulnerability pastoral communities to food insecurity in the face of climate change. The case study focuses on Moroto- Karamoja, Uganda. Karamoja region has the highest prevalence of poverty and food insecurity in Uganda and because climate change is a …

The small farmer in Rutsiro District, Rwanda faces the problem of food insecurity. For solving this issue, the Rwandan government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) has launched the Farmer Promoter Approach (FPA) for increasing their food production and income in order …

Access to micro-credit has often been argued to be one of the effective ways of contributing to food and nutrition security. CARE International since 1994 introduced the Village Savings and Loans Associ-ation (VSLA) in Ghana. The VSLA since then, has been contributing to making some amount of micro-credit …

Since its founding in 1948, North Korea has consistently been connected to committing crimes against humanity. The non-interventionist policies that were prevalent throughout the Cold War protected it from outside intervention. Indeed, any country could do as they pleased within its borders as state-sovereignty …

The recent large-scale land acquisition by mainly foreign investors in developing countries for the agricultural production of food or biofuels is known as “land grabbing”. This thesis examines the literature and looks at the local impacts of land grabbing in Ghana, with a special focus to the biofuel …