Dr. Doris Wiesmann
Country of current residence
Germany
Current position
Consultant
Website current institute
Profession
Health professional
Specialisation
food security and nutrition, community-based health insurance in low-income countries
Degrees / expertise
dipl. oec.-troph.
Professional experience
FAO Consultant from December 2001 to January 2002
2006
2006.
2006 Global Hunger Index: A basis for cross-country comparisons.
Issue Brief 47. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute. http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/ib/ib47.pdf
2006.
A Global Hunger Index: Measurement concept, ranking of countries and trends.
Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper 212. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute. http://www.ifpri.org/divs/fcnd/dp/papers/fcndp212.pdf
2006.
Herausforderung Hunger: Welthungerindex: Fakten, Ursachen, Entwicklungen.
Also available in English: The challenge of hunger: Global Hunger Index: Facts, determinants, and trends). Bonn and Washington, D.C.: Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (DWHH) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://www.welthungerhilfe.de/uploads/tx_dwhhinfomaterial/Welthunger-Index.pdf (German) and http://www.welthungerhilfe.de/fileadmin/media/pdf/Englische_Seite/IFPRI_lang.pdf (English)
2004
2004.
An International Nutrition Index: Concept and Analyses of Food Insecurity and Undernutrition at Country Levels.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2003
2003.
Food security in the Russian Federation.
FAO Economic and Social Development Paper 153, FAO, Rome
2002
2002.
An International Nutrition Index: a big picture of Successes and Failures in Addressing Hunger and Malnutrition.
Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, Vol. 41, No. 4,
: pp. 275-294
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2001
2001.
Determinants of Viable Health Insurance Schemes in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa.
Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture,
40 (4)
: 361-378
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2000
2000.
The Emerging Movement of Community-based Health Insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences and lessons learned.
Afrika spectrum, Vol. 35, No.2,
: pp.193-210
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2000.
Die Lage der Welternährung - Daten, Fakten, Trends.
In: Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (eds.):
Jahrbuch Welternährung: Daten, Trends, Perspektiven.
Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt.
Sedik, D., S. Sotnikov, and D. Wiesmann 2002. The State of Food Security and Prospects for the Improvement in the Russian Federation. Mimeo, FAO, Rome.
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Research themes
- Renewable energy
Professional experience
FAO Consultant from December 2001 to January 2002
Degrees
dipl. oec.-troph.
Doctoral research funded by
ZEF
