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Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia
Overseas Development Institute, 2003
This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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Wages of war, wages of peace: food prices and unskilled labour pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002
Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2002
This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the period 1996-2002, based on information systematically collected weekly by WFP in all major cities (Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Heart, Mazar-e-Sharif and Faizabad). The main conclusion of the study are: Large fluctuations have been registered in food prices.
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Effects of market reform on access to food by low-income households : evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
This report highlights conclusions from the study which have broader implications for targeting vulnerable groups. There appear to be major opportunities to promote household food security through the use of self-targeting.