Food Security: Agriculture

Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals. In many cases, agriculture is a fundamental component of food security at a household level; in terms of availability as it pertains to production for own consumption, access in terms of income received from household production, and utilization in terms of selection and diversity of crops.

Resource Documents

Agriculture and Biotechnology

• Biotechnology and food security
• Questions and answers on U.S. food aid donations containing bioengineered crops

Agriculture, HIV and Nutrition

• Agricultural development and childhood nutrition: What do we know?
• Agriculture, food and nutrition for Africa: A resource book for teachers of agriculture
• The effects of HIV/AIDS on farming systems in Eastern Africa
• Linkages between agricultural growth and improved childhood nutrition in Mali

Crop Marketing, Land Access, Urban Agriculture, and Seeds

• Cities feeding people
• Does food aid effect crop marketing? Evidence from rural Ethiopia
• Facilitating land access for the Copper Belt's peri-urban farmers: an interest-based approach
• Getting off the Seeds-and-tools treadmill with CRS Seed Vouchers and Fairs
• Seed Vouchers and Fairs: A Manual for Seed-based Agricultural Recovery in Africa

Agriculture Program Management Tools

Toolkits and monitoring and evaluation aids specific to agriculture.

• Agricultural Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK)
• Agricultural Productivity Indicators Measurement Guide
• Increasing the Nutritional Impacts of Agricultural Interventions
• Prediction, Impact, and Control Variables for Agricultural Field Research Evaluation
• Review of Agriculture Project Baseline Surveying Methods of Title II-Funded PVOs: Part 1, Socioeconomic Methods
• Title II Health and Agriculture Monitoring Toolkit
• Title II Health and Agriculture Monitoring Tools Workshop