Overseas Development Institute - Theme: Food

Making systematic reviews work for international development research (Discussion papers, January 2012)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMT

This briefing paper reflects upon the use of systematic reviews in international development research. It attempts to identify where a systematic review approach adds value to development research and where it becomes problematic.

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Nutrition and food security response analysis in emergency contexts (HPG Commissioned Reports, December 2011)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This paper takes a new look at the old problem of weaknesses in the integration of food security and nutrition approaches. The paper highlights the differences in the way the two sectors work in all stages from problem identification through to evaluation, and proposes that better casual analysis and response analysis could be a meeting ground to improve collaboration and impact.

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Climate smart REDD+ (REDD-net blog, 7 December 2011)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'The REDD-net side event and the key themes from the past week all really highlight that REDD+ must be designed in a way that is ‘climate smart’... In order to be a politically, socially and environmentally sustainable mechanism in the long term, it must be designed in a way that contributes to mitigation, adaptation and development goals.'

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Expectations for Durban: high level progress on REDD+ likely to be held hostage by broader stalemate (REDD-net blog, 29 November 2011)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'Issues such as clarifying the guidelines on a reporting system for the social and environmental safeguards , which are specific only to REDD+, provide an opportunity to make progress regardless of stalemates in other areas.'

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Development Policy Review (Development Policy Review vol. 30, iss. 1, December 2011)

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Articles in the latest issue explore financing of social protection, challenges to poverty monitoring and assessment systems, and MDG achievements and policies in education and health.

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REDD+ finance: More than a numbers game (REDD-net blog, 9 December 2011)

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'Given that the issue of REDD+ finance is a crucial one, how can it progress in the absence of solid progress in Durban? Finance needs will be diverse, and depend on how a country is going to implement REDD+, what other goals they are also pursuing through REDD+(such as poverty alleviation), how ‘ready’ they are, and their existing multilateral and bilateral relationships with development partners.'

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Forested countries need reassurance that “massive investment” in REDD+ will pay off (Quoted in Center for International Forestry Research, 1 December 2011)

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT

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Rethinking cash transfers to promote maternal health: good practice from developing countries (ODI Background Notes, November 2011)

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:30:00 GMT

This Background Note reviews the evidence on conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to promote safe motherhood – a concept that spans not only care during pregnancy and childbirth, but access to family planning and equitable health services – comparing them to other approaches to maternal health programming in developing countries.

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REDD+ finance delivery: lessons from early experience (Climate Funds Update - Climate Finance Policy Briefs, November 2011)

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Delivering REDD+ finance has taken more preparatory work, capacity and tailoring than initially envisaged. Multilateral institutions financing REDD+ have made significant progress, and experience to date will inform and facilitate future implementation. Alongside this, Annex II countries are providing increasing volumes of finance through bilateral channels. There remains very little transparency around these bilateral arrangements. It is essential to ensure that the lessons learned through experience with multilateral institutions and participating stakeholders inform bilateral financing. The large number of multilateral and bilateral engagements in forest countries creates major coordination challenges. There is an urgent need for more capacity and expertise on the implementation and management of REDD+ within contributor countries, recipient countries, and intermediaries. Creating and maintaining momentum to implement REDD+ requires credible commitments of long-term finance from Annex II countries. Finance should be directed to REDD+ strategies with political buy-in and stakeholder support. Early experience demonstrates the difficulty of balancing core objectives. For example, speedy disbursement through streamlined processes can conflict with the need for rigorous due diligence and comprehensive application of safeguards. Similarly, there are tensions between national ownership, sovereignty, and contributor country input. If REDD+ is to be sustainable, it will need to deliver real development benefits equitably at the individual as well as the country level. With limited public resources available, Annex II countries are trying to balance climate and development objectives, and most REDD+ finance is directed through development assistance budgets. The use of ODA budgets to deliver climate finance has been questioned, but this approach does provide the opportunity to support integrated solutions if potential trade-offs between co-benefits can be navigated.

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Mitigation finance (Climate Finance Fundamentals 4, November 2011)

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This Brief describes the funds that have been created by industrialized countries to finance emission reductions in developing countries and examines how these funds can work with private capital to secure the level of funding needed.

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REDD-plus finance (Climate Finance Fundamentals 5, November 2011)

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

REDD-plus finance has received a lot of attention over the last years. This Brief describes the funding initiatives in support of this major international mitigation strategy and raises some ongoing challenges for the equitable delivery of climate finance.

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REDD+ and adaptation: will REDD+ contribute to adaptive capacity at the local level? (Research reports and studies, November 2011)

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

This paper examines how synergies between REDD+ and adaptive capacity at the local level can be maximised and analyses whether this is likely to occur, highlighting tradeoffs that need to be explicitly addressed.

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The conundrum of agricultural investment: is jatropha the problem? (ODI Blog Posts, 18 November 2011)

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

'Phrasing biofuels investments purely in [negative] terms does not provide any real understanding of the issues nor does it offer any basis for credible policy responses.'

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Development Policy Review (Development Policy Review vol. 29, iss. 6, November 2011)

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Articles in the latest issue explore food security, the turnaround in opinion about high and low food prices, and the need for new indices to reflect different consumer groups.

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Benefit sharing in REDD+: Exploring the implications for poor and vulnerable people (Research reports and studies, October 2011)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This paper looks systematically at how benefit sharing can be understood in the context of national REDD+ systems, and the possible implications of different benefit sharing arrangements. The paper addresses three main questions: What does benefit sharing mean in the context of REDD+? What are the options for establishing benefit sharing systems in different REDD+ approaches? What are the implications of different benefit sharing arrangements for poor people?

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Benefit sharing in REDD+: policy note (Briefing papers, October 2011)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Drawing on experience from emerging REDD+ approaches and from existing benefit sharing schemes in development policy, this policy note outlines the different components of benefit sharing systems and considers their implications for poor people.

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Carbon rights in REDD+: Exploring the implications for poor and vulnerable people (Research reports and studies, October 2011)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This paper aims to address some of the confusion in understanding legal issues surrounding carbon rights. It also considers the implications for the rural poor in different contexts, given that they often have weak rights, an inability to enforce their rights, and that REDD+ legal systems could add a new layer of complexity to an already complicated legal landscape in many countries.

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Carbon rights in REDD+: Policy note (Briefing papers, October 2011)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This policy note summarizes what carbon rights are, how they are relevant in REDD+ and the main implications that could arise for poor and vulnerable people.

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REDD+ benefit sharing in Brazil (Research reports and studies, October 2011)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This case study outlines the operation and benefit sharing arrangements under Brazil's Amazon Fund.

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REDD+ benefit sharing in Indonesia (Research reports and studies, October 2011)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This case study explores benefit sharing options for REDD+ in Indonesia which have mainly resembled the ‘nested’ approach to REDD+.

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REDD+ benefit sharing in Tanzania (Research reports and studies, October 2011)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This case study explores national level benefit sharing options for REDD+ in Tanzania where REDD+ is likely to be based on Participatory Forest Management approaches.

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REDD+ benefit sharing in Uganda (Research reports and studies, October 2011)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This case study provides a short description of benefit sharing arrangements under the Nile Basin Reforestation Project in Uganda.

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Food, finance and fuel: the impacts of the triple F crisis in Nigeria, with a particular focus on women and children (ODI Background Notes, October 2011)

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

This Background Note presents key findings of a study that maps the impacts of the food finance and fuel (3F) crisis on vulnerable social groups, particularly women and children, as well as related coping strategies undertaken by households across Nigeria’s six socioeconomic zones. We are grateful for research assistance from: Hanna Alder, Keziah Awosika, Sunday Alonge, Massimiliano Cali, Erin Cullen, Titilope Fakoye, Nicola Jones and Sade Taiwo.

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Food Prices – is the only way up? (ODI Blog Posts, 18 October 2011)

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This blog provides an overview of a roundtable event that brought together key people involved in the food prices agenda to understand the differences in projections of food prices that have emerged over recent months and possible policy responses to this.

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Food, fuel and finance: the impacts of the triple F crisis on women and children - Imo State focus (Discussion papers, October 2011)

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

This Background Note presents a case study of the Nigerian state of Imo focusing on regional-specific impacts and coping strategies undertaken by households in response to the food, fuel and finance (3F) crises on vulnerable social groups, particularly women and children. These findings feed into a larger body of research that maps the impacts of these crises across Nigeria’s six socioeconomic zones, the key findings for which are also presented in this paper.

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