In addition to global developments and food policy changes, 2014 also saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions. This chapter offers perspectives on major food policy developments in various regions including Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report-the eighth in an annual series- presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. It shows that the world has made some progress in reducing hunger since 1990, but still has far to go. The 2013 GHI report focuses on resilience in theory and in practice. The relief and development communities have long struggled to understand why some people fare better than others when confronting stresses or shocks.

Der Bericht zum Welthunger-Index 2013 – der achte in einer jährlich erscheinenden Serie – stellt die Entwicklung des weltweiten, regionalen und nationalen Hungers mittels eines mehrdimensionalen Indexwertes dar. Er zeigt, dass die Weltgemeinschaft bei der Bekämpfung des Hungers seit 1990 gewisse Fortschritte gemacht hat, dass aber noch viel zu tun ist.

A major challenge of Brazilian municipalities is to harmonize urban growth with the provision of public service. São Carlos, a municipality in the State of São Paulo also tries to solve this issue. The lack of urban planning coupled with the absence of occupation control measures promotes the soil sealing, which is responsible for the flooding in the valley bottoms. Considering this scenario, the object of study of this dissertation is the creek watershed Santa Maria do Leme. This watershed, even undeveloped, suffers with the occurrence of flooding in the region of its mouth.

RESUMO A subirrigação requer que a definição do manejo hídrico e nutricional seja adequada ao equipamento e à cultura a ser cultivada para obter elevada eficiência de irrigação em comparação a outros sistemas. O objetivo desse trabalho foi avaliar os parâmetros operacionais de uma mesa de subirrigação em condições teóricas e experimentais, com a determinação do tempo de permanência da água no interior do equipamento para diferentes valores de lâmina e de vazões de adução.

The identification of suitable models for predicting daily water flow is important for planning

Este trabalho se refere ao desenvolvimento de um modelo computacional para suporte à tomada de decisão, quanto ao planejamento e manejo de projetos de irrigação e/ou drenagem. O modelo computacional, denominado MCID, é aplicável em nível de unidade de produção, gerando informações sobre como diferentes práticas de manejo da irrigação e configurações do sistema de drenagem afetam a produtividade e o retorno financeiro.

We analyzed the following characteristics of water self-depuration capacity along a polluted river (Suquía River) in Argentina: a) abundance of microbial metabolic groups, b) cover and type of vegetation, and c) type and concentration of soil and sediment humic substances. The objective was to establish the modifications of water self-depuration characteristics of the polluted sites in comparison to a reference site, in order to provide basic data for ecological restoration programs.

El canal de riego Quinuales-Buerán, fue construido a inicios del siglo XIX por los propietarios de haciendas, principalmente la hacienda El Colegio que utilizó mano de obra de indígenas y campesinos. Su captación está ubicada en la subcuenca del río Burgay, que corresponde a la cuenca del Cañar y los páramos de Patococha-Quinuales-Tuzhin se encuentran a 3.785 m.s.n.m que pertenecen a los cantones Biblián y Cañar, la infraestructura es canal abierto, cuya longitud es de 18 Kilómetros, que beneficia a 13 sectores, riega 688 hectáreas, y el caudal es 76.12 litros L/s...