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  Making sense of food security measurements

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Reducing hunger and food insecurity is central to the Millennium Development Goals. Monitoring progress towards targets requires simple, quick and reliable methods. However, this has proved difficult for both researchers and practitioners.
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  After the fall: social safety net programmes in Indonesia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In early 1998, the government of Indonesia established several programmes to provide social welfare to those most affected by the economic crisis. Both chronically and newly poor people had to be provided for, and social welfare was a new intiative for the Indonesian Government. The results have been mixed.
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  From seed to plate: valuing local food systems

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Most of the world’s food is grown and processed by small-scale farmers, pastoralists and fisherfolk. Many people depend on these activities for incomes, including food producers, processors, retailers and consumers. Howevre, development policies often ignore, neglect  or actively undermine local food systems.
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  Special evaluation study of ADB interventions on nutrition and food fortification

  Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2006

  This document explores the strengths and weaknesses of Asia Development Bank (ADB)-financed regional technical assistance (RETA), a modality in addressing nutrition issues and initiatives. Five member countries were consulted and interviewed at the field level: Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, and Viet Nam.
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  Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction

  Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005

  This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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  Agricultural dynamics in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines

  Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Israel, 2004

  This paper analyses the determinants of agricultural growth and dynamics in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines from the 1960s to the late 1990s.The introduction of new high-yielding varieties of cereals in the 1960s, known as the green revolution, dramatically changed the food supply in Asia, as well as in other countries.
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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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  The benefits of growth for Indonesian workers

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions?Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years.

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