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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Food security, Poverty

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  The world’s most deprived: characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007

  Despite considerable progress in poverty reduction in the past decade, millions of people around the world remain preoccupied solely with survival, and hunger is a reality in their everyday lives. This paper examines the first Millennium Development Goal, the halving of poverty and hunger, and explores the characteristics of those who are likely to be left behind.
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  Southern Africa food security outlook: October 2007 to March 2008

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  This report summarises the results of a study of the food security outlook for Southern Africa, highlighting the major threats to food security in the period October 2007 to March 2008. It incorporates the findings from six country outlooks, and aims to provide a basis for regional and global resource allocation and contingency planning, as well as in-country planning.
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  No small change: Oxfam GB Malawi and Zambia emergency cash transfer projects - a synthesis of key learning

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006

  In response to predictions of an impending food crisis in southern Africa in 2005 - 2006, Oxfam deployed a relief response. As an alternative to emergency food aid, the agency undertook cash transfer schemes in both Malawi and Zambia.
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  Agriculture, food security, nutrition and the millennium development goals

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the importance of agriculture, food security and nutrition within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
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  Coping with hunger and poverty in Ethiopia

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004

  This paper is an examination of how people in Ethiopia are faring, twenty years after a major famine. The paper is comprised of interviews with individuals in different communities, interwoven with the authors’ conclusions and narrative.
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  The impact of the International Food Policy Research Institute's Research Program on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This study examines the impact of IFPRI's multi-country research project on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor (IRFPP) within four countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Ghana and Malawi). It also examines IRFPP's contribution to global knowledge about rural finance and food security.
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  The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002

  This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.
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  Targeting food insecure households: an Indian experiment

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper presents an alternative, participatory approach to the identification of food insecure households at the community level. This approach is introduced as a response to the different food assistance schemes currently implemented by the Government of India, which show a lacklustre performance due to inappropriate targeting.
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  Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW).
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  Risk sharing and public transfers

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2002

  This paper investigates public transfers in the form of food aid for farm households in Ethiopia to test for the presence of community risk-sharing arrangements.Findings include:both perfect risk-sharing and autarky are rejected, suggesting partial risk-sharing using informal transfersthere is evidence consistent with crowding out of informal insurance linked to food aid programmes

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