4th Quarter 2001, Issue 58

Features in this issue...

Regularly appearing...

Addressing the Roots of Conflict and Food Insecurity in Sierra Leone (39.4 KB)
by Steve Archibald, CARE Conflict and Human Rights Project, reprinted with permission.

Armenia Food Security Assessment
(529 KB)

by Jindra Cekan and Juliet Dulles, American Red Cross, International Services

Call Forward: OIC Tamale's Inventory Credit and Inventory Storage Services Programs - Tools for Improving Marketing and Income (55.7 KB)
by Dr. John Azu, OIC Tamale, Ghana

News from Washington (15.2 KB)
by Ellen Levinson, Coalition for Food Aid

Snapshots from the Field (12.7 MB)
provided by our authors

FSRC Resources on Sustainable Agriculture (15.6 KB)
by Wanjiku Kiereini, Summer Intern 2001, FAM

Click here to download the entire Food Forum issue in one Adobe pdf file! (209 KB)
Use the links below to read individual articles in Adobe pdf.

Genetically Modified Food: Implications for U.S. Food Aid Programs (38 KB)
by ACDI-VOCA, Food for Development

Call Forward: Children Under Two Take Center Stage, So What Should the Practitioner Know? (32 KB)

by Anuradha Harinarayan and Megan Banigan, Save the Children U.S., Food Security Unit

FANTA Project Update: Food for Education (5.4 KB)
by the FANTA Project

Snapshots from the Field (158 KB)
submitted by World Food Programme, Bolivia

FSRC Resources on Child Survival and Maternal and Child Health (17.4 KB)
by Shikha Saxena, Summer Intern 2001, FAM

Announcements...

FAM M&E Working Group Releases New Monitoring Toolkit

Addressing the Needs of the Food Insecure: A Position Paper on Food-Based Maternal/Child Health and Nutrition Programs
by Chris Bessenecker, Project Concern International (PCI), cbessenecker@projectconcern.org

Using Knowledge, Practices, and Coverage (KPC) Surveys to Plan, Monitor, and Evaluate Food Aid Projects
by Donna Espeut, Child Survival Technical Support Project (CSTS), despeut@macroint.com

New USAID ADS Gender Requirements: Implications for Title II?
by Mara Russell, Food Aid Management (FAM), mrussell@foodaid.org

FANTA Project Update: Credit With Education
by the FANTA Project

FSRC Resources on Gender and Food Security
by Angela Wiens, Intern - Spring Semester 2001, FAM

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Business Creation as a Mechanism for Increasing Food Security in Northern Uganda
by Susan Bornstein, Africa Program Manager, TechnoServe (sbornstein@tns.org)
and
Mara Neville, Communications Officer, TechnoServe (mneville@tns.org)

Snapshots from the Field (330 KB)
This quarter's featured pictures are from TechnoServe's BRITE program, profiled in the above article.

Information Technology for Improved Food Security Programming: Food Security Extranets
by Keith Wright
Food for the Hungry International (FHI)

News from Washington
by Ellen Levinson, Food Aid Coalition

FAM Local Capacity Building Working Group: Capacity Building for What?
by Irene Abdou, Working Group Co-Chair, Counterpart International

FSRC Resources on Environment
by Trisha Schmirler, Technical Information Specialist, FAM

FANTA Provides Technical Guidance to Develop an Emergency Ration Bar
by Caroline GroblerTanner, Maternal Child Specialist, FANTA Project

Call Forward: Helms's Idea Could Hobble Bush
by J. Brian Atwood

Announcements...

View Food Security Extranets highlighted in the above article:
FHI's Food Security Extranet
Save the Children-UK's Food Security Extranet

The 2nd Quarter 2001 issue of Food Forum will feature an annotated list of useful web sites for extranets.