Chapter
Chapter 2: A Summary of “Food Security in the Developing World”
2.2 Manifestations and Measurement of Food Insecurity
2.3 Causes of Food Insecurity
2.4 Mitigation of Current Food Insecurity
2.5 Prevention of Future Food Insecurity
Chapter 3: Understanding Vulnerability to, and Resilience Against, Food Insecurity
Chapter 4: The Anthropological Basis of Human Development
4.2 A Social and Cultural Obstacle Course
4.2.1 Clearing the Hurdle
4.2.1.1 Ankole District, Uganda
4.2.1.2 Return of the King
4.2.1.3 Upper Barclay, Eastern Nepal
4.2.1.4 Meeting the Ancestors
4.2.1.5 Motorbike Accident, Liberia
4.2.1.6 Concern at Colleagues' Wellbeing in Afghanistan
4.2.2 Falling at the Hurdle
4.2.2.2 A Tanzanian's Sensibility
4.2.2.3 Sensitive Language and Customs Related to the African Colonial Period
4.2.2.4 Sensitivities to Being “Beneficiaries”
4.2.2.5 Kyrgyzstan: How to Create a Diplomatic Incident Without Trying
4.4 Success Breeds Success
4.5 Individual Food Security Strategies
4.5.2 Sudanese Shoe Shiner
4.5.4 Tomato Growing in the Sudanese Desert
4.5.5 Sale of Fodder in Sudan
4.5.7 Police on the Owen Falls Dam, Uganda
4.5.8 Police on the Fort Portal Road, Uganda
4.5.9 Room Cleaner in The Gambia
4.5.10 Private Enterprise in Refugee Camps
Chapter 5: The Starting Point of a Development Intervention
5.1.1 Food-Sourcing Context
5.1.2 Approach to Improving Resilience
5.1.3 Expatriates—Blessing or Liability?
5.2 Personal Journeys to Our Understanding of “Food Insecurity”
5.4 Challenging One's Assumptions
5.4.1 The Need to Triangulate
5.4.1.7 Surprising Attitudes of the “Lightly Traveled”
5.5 Interaction With Local Administrations
5.6 Lack of Trust Within Multiethnic National Communities
5.7 Conflict- or Political-Break With Tradition
5.8 Managing Expectations
Chapter 6: Identifying and Prioritizing the Challenges Confronting Food Security Resilience for All
6.1 The Need for Resilient Food Systems
6.2 Better Policy Making and Planning
6.2.2 The Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project (TINP)
6.2.5 The World Food Program in The Gambia, Peru and the Gaza Strip
6.2.5.2 Qali Warma in Peru
6.2.5.3 WFP and the Economic Recovery Program in the Gaza Strip
6.3 Education to Build Resilience
6.5 Other Priorities to Improve Resilience
Chapter 7: Building the Change Management Team and Approach
7.1 Advantages of Working Well as a Team
7.2 Getting It Right as a Team
7.3 Getting It Wrong as a Team
7.3.1 Territorial Integrity
7.3.2 The Start of Boko Haram
7.4 Institutional Perspective on Change Management
7.5 Program Implementation
Chapter 8: Importance of Local Knowledge in Building Resilience
8.2 The “Groundnut Scheme” in Tanganyika
8.4 Sacred Sites in Liberia
8.5 Barking Dogs in Eritrea
8.6 Feedback on a Project in Central Asia
8.7 Crop Improvement Through Selection and Application
8.8 Harnessing Condensation for Drip Irrigation
8.9 Combining the Best of the Old and the New
8.9.1 The Best of the Old to the New
8.9.2 The Best of the New to the Old
Chapter 9: Lateral Thinking
9.3.2.2 At Administrative and Management Level
9.4 Population Management
9.5 Bringing a New Idea to a Community
9.5.1 A Vision for Eco/Agro-Tourism
9.5.2 Rapid-Impact Technical Interventions
9.5.3 Differing Perspectives
9.6 The Value of Corn Cobs in a Parched Field
9.7 Potato Promotion in France
9.8 Nepal Earthquake in 1998
Chapter 10: The Role of Champions
10.1 Champions at Village and Public Sector Levels
10.2 Champions From the Commercial Private Sector
10.3 Champions Who Contest the Commercial Private Sector
10.4 Champions From International Organizations, Sport and Entertainment
11.1 Case Study 1. The Need for More Resilient Food Systems
11.1.2 The Challenge of Maintaining Soil Fertility in Perpetuity
11.1.2.1 The Conventional Modern Agriculture Scenario
11.1.2.2 Alternatives to Conventional Agriculture Which Could Sustain Soil Fertility
11.1.3 The Challenge of Maintaining Social Cohesion and Socio-Economic Integrity
11.2 Case Study 2. Resilience to Food and Nutrition Security Among the Inuit81
11.2.2 Food Security Strategies
11.2.2.1 Inuit Hunter-Gatherer Communities
11.2.2.2 Cultural Adaptation of Modern Inuit
11.2.3 Food and Nutritional Security of the Traditional Lifestyle Compared With That in the Modern Settlement
11.2.4 Overarching Inuit Cultural Factors Affecting Resilience
11.3 Case Study 3. Human Capital as a Resilience Strategy in the Pamirs
11.3.1 Political and Economic Context
11.3.2 Educated Cadre of First-Generation Farmers
11.3.3 Willingness to Engage in Modern Development Initiatives
11.3.4 Country-Wide Context
12.1 One Person Can Make a Difference
12.2 Social Component Essential
12.4 External Actors in Development Design and Implementation
12.5 A Role In-Waiting for Social Anthropologists and Their Ilk
12.6 Building the Team Toward a Common Narrative
12.7 Sustainable Food System
12.8 Two Other Generic Priorities
Annex 1: Goats and Nightclubs of the Levant
Human Resilience Against Food Insecurity
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