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    Global financial and food crisis: a Malysian perspective

    Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia, 2009
    High food prices from 2007 through mid-2008 spawned serious implications for food security, macroeconomic stability and even political stability in many countries, especially developing ones.
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    Agriculture, food security, and poverty in China

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report outlines the growth success registered by China over the past decades. It states that China’s rapid economic growth would not have been possible without successful growth in the agricultural sector.
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    Import/export parity price analysis

    Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2008
    This manual focuses on the role parity prices play in food security and early warning analysis. Parity prices are used to compare prices of a commodity in two different locations, when the two locations are in different countries.
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    Promoting value chains of neglected and underutilized species for pro-poor growth and biodiversity conservation: guidelines and good practices

    Bioversity International, 2008
    Use of neglected and underutilised species (NUS) can play an important role in improving food security, conserving biodiversity and generating income and employment. Value chain development (VCD) can be a useful tool for realising these prospects, by linking supply capacities to market opportunities.
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    Cereal offenders: how the G8 has contributed to the global food crisis, and what they can do to stop it

    ActionAid International, 2008
    Three years after the G8 pledged to ‘make poverty history’, the current global food crisis has left close to a quarter of the world’s population lacking basic food security. In this policy brief, Actionaid calls on G8 leaders to take bold steps in Hokkaido to prevent world hunger spiralling further out of control.
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    Fertiliser subsidies and sustainable agricultural growth in Africa: current issues and empirical evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2008
    The role of input subsidies in stimulating growth and addressing food security and poverty alleviation objectives has re-emerged as an important  debate in agricultural policy.
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    Getting out of the food crisis

    GRAIN, 2008
    The current food crisis is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. In this edition of GRAIN's Seedling magazine, a collection of articles highlight the less discussed aspects of the food crisis and responses to it.
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    The time is now: how world leaders should respond to the food price crisis

    Oxfam, 2008
    Global food prices are up 83% compared with three years ago and it is estimated that current food price levels constitute an immediate threat to the livelihoods of around 290 million people. This brief argues that collective action is essential to devise solutions to the global food situation that are equitable and sustainable for the global population as a whole.
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    The Malawi fertiliser subsidy programme: politics and pragmatism

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2008
    Food insecurity in Malawi has become endemic, with around 70-80% of rural households short of self-produced staple foods for four to five months of the year. This Future Agricultures brief reviews the Malawian government's Fertiliser Subsidy Programme (FSP), introduced in 2005/2006 as a means of attempting to tackle the ever-pressing food crisis.
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    Food outlook: global market analysis

    Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2008
    FAO's Food Outlook is a biannual publication (June and November) focusing on developments affecting global food and feed markets and providing comprehensive assessments and forecasts on a commodity by commodity basis.

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