This report contains 12 incident reports written by a villager trained by KHRG to monitor human rights conditions, based on information provided by 12 different villagers living in hiding sites in Lu Thaw Township, Papun District between November 2010 and January 2011.[1] The twelve villagers described human rights concerns for civilians prior to and during displacement to their current hiding sites, including: deliberate firing of mortars and small arms into civilian areas; burning and destruction of houses, food and food preparation equipment; theft and looting of villagers' animals and p

The Agriculture Sector Development Programme (ASDP) is a Sector Programme largely implemented at the district level through the District Agricultural Development Plans (DADPs) as an integral part of the District Development Plan (DDP). The government also works at the national level through the Agriculture Sector Lead Ministries (ASLMs) to deal with issues such as fertiliser subsidies, large irrigation schemes, research and development, regulation and coordination as well as quality assurance.

Together with reductions in indirect taxes on food imports, cash for work programs were one of the main responses implemented by African governments following the food, fuel, and financial crisis of recent years. The main objective of those programs was to help the poor cope with the various shocks by increasing their net earnings through community-level work paid for under the programs. Yet it is unclear whether these cash for work programs indeed reached their intended beneficiaries and to what degree they generated other, potentially long-term beneficial impacts.

This report contains the full transcript of an interview conducted by a KHRG researcher in May 2011 with a villager from Ler Doh Township, Nyaunglebin District. The researcher interviewed Naw P---, a 40-year-old farmer who described her experiences living in a Tatmadaw-controlled relocation site, and in her original village in a mixed-administration area under effective Tatmadaw control.

This report contains the full transcripts of three interviews conducted during March and April 2011 in Tantabin Township, Toungoo District by a villager trained by KHRG to monitor human rights conditions. The three female interviewees described the following abuses: attacks on villages, villagers and livelihoods; killing of villagers; theft and looting; taxation and demands; forced displacement; and forced labour, including the production and supply of building materials and forced portering.

This research gives an evaluation of Tana delta with regard to areas that are suitable for rice growing. The study area lies on the Eastern delta area of the Tana river of which 16000 hectares have been earmarked for commercial rice farming. The evaluation of land in terms of the suitability classes was based on the method as described in FAO guideline for land evaluation for rain fed agriculture. A land unit resulting from the overlay process of the selected theme layers has unique information of land qualities for which the suitability was based on.

The objective of this report is to identify and evaluate best practices in smallholder private irrigation in West Africa. The report is based on a comparative assessment of the smallholder private irrigation subsector in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria, which included a literature review, field visits, and workshops at both national and regional levels. The task lists for the assessment is provided in annex one. This report first presents the main features of smallholder irrigation and the development projects that have promoted its use in West Africa in chapter two.

Over the past 25 years, Uganda has experienced sustained economic growth, supported by a prudent macroeconomic framework and propelled by consistent policy reforms. Annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth averaged 7.4 percent in the 2000s, compared with 6.5 in the 1990s. Economic growth has enabled substantial poverty reduction, with the proportion of people living in poverty more than halving from 56 percent in the 1992 to 23.3 percent in 2009. However, welfare improvements have not been shared equally; there is increasing urban rural inequality and inequality between regions.

La crise des prix des denrées alimentaires de 2008 a entraîné des émeutes de la faim dans plus de 30 pays. Elle a accru la priorité politique donnée à la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle et a donné lieu à une série d’initiatives internationales, régionales et nationales visant à améliorer cette sécurité. Le présent document donne des détails synthétiques sur dix de ces initiatives, six d’entre elles étant prises au niveau international et quatre au niveau régional.

Dans le sillage de la crise alimentaire mondiale de 2007/2008, le Comité de la sécurité alimentaire mondiale (CSA) a subi une profonde transformation. Le processus de réforme est prometteur dans la mesure où il reconnaît le CSA en tant que principal forum mondial débattant de la sécurité alimentaire et qu’il ouvre ses portes aux acteurs concernés, à savoir les organisations de petits producteurs de denrées alimentaires et de consommateurs urbains pauvres.

La malnutrition est un problème grave et très répandu en Afrique. Le Programme détaillé pour le développement de l'agriculture africaine (PDDAA) du NEPAD (Nouveau partenariat pour le développement de l'Afrique) réclame de toute urgence des mesures pour lutter contre les problèmes alimentaires et nutritionnels au niveau régional et au niveau national.

Lancé récemment, le processus de renégociation de la Convention relative à l’aide alimentaire (CAA) est passé pratiquement inaperçu du grand public. Élaborée il y a plus de 40 ans entre 23 pays donateurs, la Convention avait pour objectif d’utiliser les surplus céréaliers pour lutter contre la faim dans les pays en développement. Dans le cadre de cette Convention, l’Allemagne a accepté de fournir chaque année 56,24 millions d’euros d’aide alimentaire.