Publications
Land Husbandry, Water Harvesting & Hillside Irrigation Project
The project, the "Land Husbandry, Water Harvesting and Hillside Irrigation Project" (LWH) is focused on creating terraces on hillsides, improving the soil on the land under cultivation on these
Building comprehensive resilience and facilitating women’s leadership
This leaflet outlines two factors critical to the success of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) efforts - the need to build comprehensive resilience and the importance of promoting and facilitating women's
Fuelling Evictions - Community Cost of EU Biofuels Boom
Over 20,000 people living in the Dakatcha Woodland, in Kenya’s coast region, are at risk of losing their homes and land for a biofuels plantation, producing fuel for the EU market. This report shows
Sustainability Criteria Review for Jatropha Biofuels from Dakatcha Woodland in Kenya
The European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive contains a set of criteria designed to encourage the promotion of biofuels from sustainable sources.To count towards renewable energy targets in the EU
Food Policy Update from Rome - Issue 5, May 2011
Food Policy Updates from Rome aims to provide an up-to-date information on the global food governance system and strategic activities of ActionAid.
Making CAADP Work for Women Farmers: A review of progress in six countries
The Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) aims to revitalize African farming in order to reduce rural poverty and hunger. This is a massively important undertaking for a
Financing the Future of Food: A Case Study of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) and Lessons for Donors/CSOs
This is a presentataion Neil Wakins, Director of Policy & Campaigns, AA USA, gave on the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) at the Civil Society Policy Forum of the IMF/WB Spring
TEGINT Mid-Term Review
Transforming Education for Girls in Nigeria and Tanzania (TEGINT) is a five-year £4 million Comic Relief funded project coordinated by ActionAid. TEGINT aims to achieve a transformation in girls’
Harnessing Synergies - mainstreaming climate change adaptation in disaster risk reduction programmes and policies
Across the globe, practitioners and policy makers are increasingly recognising the importance of bringing together disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA). But how can you