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  Food wasted, food lost: food security by restoring ecosystems and reducing food loss

  GRID Arendal, 2014

  Food security is critical for health, labour productivity, economic growth and sustainable development.
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  The social uses of livestock among pastoralists in Sudan: food systems, stores of value, wealth, power, and authority

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014

  The impact of livestock on the economy of Sudan and its social uses within the pastoral sector are of great importance in the future development of the country. The role of livestock is that of a food system and store of value, wealth, power, and authority in areas where pastoralists practice their daily life without being reached by modern banking systems and market economy.
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  Climate change, crop production and child under nutrition in Ethiopia; a longitudinal panel study

  BMC Public Health, 2014

  Background: The amount and distribution of rainfall and temperature influences household food availability, thus increasing the risk of child under nutrition. However, few studies examined the local spatial variability and the impact of temperature and rainfall on child under nutrition at a smaller scale (resolution).
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  Food securities and social conflict

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014

  Following rising food prices violent ‘food riots’ took place in about 40 countries around the globe in 2007-2008. And at the end of 2010 and the start of 2011, as protests erupted first in Tunisia and then in Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and Egypt, the price of food was widely seen as a significant factor underlying unrest and the train of events of the Arab Spring.
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  Crop adaptation to climate change in the semi-arid zone in Tanzania: the role of genetic resources and seed systems

  2014

  Background Rural livelihoods relying on agriculture are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Climate models project increasingly negative effects on maize and sorghum production in sub-Saharan Africa. We present a case study of the role of genetic resources and seed systems in adapting to climatic stress from the semi-arid agroecological zone in Tanzania. Results
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  The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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  Chinhoyi Food Security and Livelihoods Project Low Input Gardening funded by IOM. Final project evaluation report.

  2012

  Save the Children (SC) has been implementing a Food Security and Livelihoods project in Zvimba and Makonde districts since November 2010. Funded by ECHO, the intervention had two phases (1 & 2) which aimed to improve the livelihoods and food security situation of the targeted households through Cash Transfers (CT) and Low Input Gardens.
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  Improving smallholder livelihoods through local value chain development: a case study of goat milk yoghurt in Tanzania

  International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, 2012

  Smallholder farmers have difficulties entering established value chains with value-added products. In this paper, we look at smallholders’ capability to establish and sustainably manage a competitive and economically viable local dairy value chain through the case of Twawose, a small dairy goat co-operative in Tanzania.
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  Social impacts of IPM-FFS on urban and peri-urban vegetable producers in Cotonou, Benin

  African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2013

  Shifting from scientist-led top-down approaches in agricultural development to participatory approaches putting farmers and their knowledge in the center requires scientists and farmers to play new roles, changing social relationships between them, and among farmers themselves.
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  People in crises: tackling the root causes of famine in the Horn of Africa

  Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 2012

  In mid-2011 the world became witness to a widespread food crisis in the Horn of Africa, which has escalated into acute shortages of food notably in the regions of southern Somalia, northern Kenya, southeastern Ethiopia and Djibouti. The U.N.

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