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    High food prices: the what, who, and how of proposed policy actions

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    The sharp increase in food prices over the past couple of years has led to increasingly serious concerns about the situation of people around the world. This policy brief aims to identify what needs to be done now to address the problem.
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    Considering the contribution of U.S. food and agricultural policy to the obesity epidemic: overview and opportunities

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2007
    Nearly one in three American adults are now obese and two-thirds are overweight or obese. These proportions have increased steadily over the past 30 years. Direct and indirect costs of obesity alone have been estimated at $117 billion. This paper explores the relationship between US griculture policy and obesity.
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    The economics of food safety in developing countries

    Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2003
    This paper provides an overview of issues associated with the economics of food safety in developing countries and highlights key references for readers.The paper outlines the main hazards potentially associated with food.
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    Food, nutrition and HIV: what’s next?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2006
    This briefing paper outlines the various ways in which food and nutritional security is essential in the HIV and AIDS response.
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    Nutrition labels and health claims: the global regulatory environment

    World Health Organization, 2006
    This review of the global regulatory environment around nutrition labelling and health aims to provide an overview of existing international, regional and national regulations and a description of past and future regulatory developments. It compiles and categorises international, regional and national regulations, and compares differing regulatory systems in 74 countries and areas.
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    Community based monitoring and research on food security and social welfare

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005
    This paper explores the contributions of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for food security in Zimbabwe.The paper argues that work on food security and economic and social wellbeing at the community level in Zimbabwe needs to be framed within deeper structural causes of poverty and deepening social deficits, even while shorter term mitigatory responses are implemented.
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    Credit with Education and Title II Programs

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2006
    This Technical Note, based on the experiences of Freedom from Hunger in twelve countries, discusses how the Credit with Education model can be introduced into a traditional Title II micro-finance programme to reinforce health and nutrition education services.The model discussed here is inspired originally by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which combines a distinctive form of village banking wi
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    Reviewing ten years of the School Nutrition Programme

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005
    The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope.
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    Civil society organisation (CSO) experiences of monitoring of food security issues in Zambia

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005
    Food security can be used as an indicator to measure the impact of poverty eradication programmes. This report from Zambia reinforces the value of collaborative, yet alternate strategies for assessing food security in different contexts, which then provides input for Government policy and poverty reduction strategies.
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    Gender, HIV/AIDS and food security: linkage and integration into development interventions

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2004
    This paper looks at the links between gender and HIV/AIDS and food security.

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