45 research outputs found
Enrolling a goddess for Delhi’s street vendors: The micro-politics of policy implementation shaping urban (in)formality
No full textFood security, nutrition and HIV/AIDS in African fisheries: emerging evidence and research directions
No full textThe spatial politics of food hygiene: Regulating small-scale retail in Delhi
No full textIn May 2007, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi suddenly banned cooking street foods, with Supreme Court endorsement. Public health concerns overrode implications for the livelihoods of food sellers or Delhi's food culture. This article interprets the ban through an analysis of municipal policy against a backdrop of economic reforms, restructuring retail systems, emerging food safety awareness and growing middle-class claims to the city. It argues that the ban's sudden emergence obscures a regulatory history that consistently privileged particular types of retail, through policy design, formulation and differential implementation. Ostensibly addressing public health, the ban's significance hence lies in reflecting a spatial politics between competing claims of the poor and the middle classes to urban public space.En mai 2007, la municipalité de Delhi interdisit soudainement la préparation et la vente de nourriture dans les rues de la ville, et ceci avec l'approbation de la Court Suprême. La santé publique prenait ainsi le dessus sur un moyen d'existence important des pauvres, ainsi que sur la culture alimentaire traditionelle de Delhi. Cet article interprète cette interdiction en tenant compte du contexte plus large de réforme et de restructuration économique, des débats emergents concernant la sécurité alimentaire, ainsi que des réclamations croissantes de la part de la classe moyenne urbaine. Il est soutenu que que cette soudaine interdiction va à lencontre de l'histoire de la réglementation urbaine à Delhi, qui a toujours favorisé certains types de ventes et d'activités économiques à travers des politiques particulières, dont l'élaboration et l'exécution s'effectuent en général de manière différentiée. Bien que semblant répondre à des soucis de santé publique, l'interdiction en question est en fait le reflet d'une politique spatiale dont le trait principal est une compétition entre les revendications des pauvres et celles d'une classe moyenne émergente par rapport à l'espace public urbain.European Journal of Development Research (2009) 21, 63–80. doi:10.1057/ejdr.2008.10
Beyond ‘Politics by Numbers’: Building Partnerships to Create and Use Global Indicators
No full textSince the global food price crisis erupted in 2008, progress on reducing hunger and malnutrition has become increasingly viewed as a political issue, rather than a technical one. Political commitment is now considered an essential ingredient for elevating the issue onto policy agendas. Consequently, a range of metrics, indexes
and scorecards have been developed to influence policy and to promote greater accountability for hunger and malnutrition. While the rapid global proliferation of these ‘indicators’ have raised important methodological and political critiques, new approaches that emphasise partnership between researchers and civil society users, such as pioneered in the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI), have much potential to overcome such criticisms
Short and long routes for enhanced accountability for nutrition: What role can community mechanisms play?
No full textShort and Long Routes for Enhanced Accountability for Nutrition:
What Role Can Community Mechanisms Play?Non-PRIFPRI1; CRP4; B Promoting healthy food systemsDGO; A4NH; PHNDCGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH
Young Zambian 'waiting' for opportunities and 'working towards' living well: Lifecourse and aspiration in youth transitions
No full textIt has become increasingly difficult for young Zambians to construct youth-to-adult transitions that meet the normative expectations of coherent life trajectories towards being successful. We explore 60 young Zambians’ experiences through qualitative life history interviews focusing on processes of economic (dis)empowerment. We focus closely on what these Zambian youth aspire to, their ‘models’ for life course achievement and how they position their own progress towards and prospects for ‘success’ in relation to their peers. In doing so, we contribute to understanding the importance of youth wellbeing in times of increasing uncertainty
Short and long routes for enhanced accountability for nutrition: What role can community mechanisms play?
No full textEquate and Conflate: Political Commitment to Hunger and Undernutrition Reduction in Five High-Burden Countries
No full textSummaryAs political commitment is an essential ingredient for elevating food and nutrition security onto policy agendas, commitment metrics have proliferated. Many conflate government commitment to fight hunger with combating undernutrition. We test the hypothesis that commitment to hunger reduction is empirically different from commitment to reducing undernutrition through expert surveys in five high-burden countries: Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Tanzania, and Zambia. Our findings confirm the hypothesis. We conclude that sensitive commitment metrics are needed to guide government and donor policies and programmatic action. Without, historically inadequate prioritization of non-food aspects of malnutrition may persist to imperil achieving global nutrition targets
