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Searching with a thematic focus on Food security in Nigeria

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    Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security

    International Development Research Centre, 2009
    This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the book examines the contribution of UA and city farming to livelihoods and food security.
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    Encouraging pro-poor growth in the Nigerian food sector

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Where food marketing institutions are working to increase market access for poor people, there is potential to raise incomes, lower the cost of food for consumers and reduce vulnerability to poverty and hunger. However, there is little specific knowledge and understanding of formal and informal market institutions in Africa, particularly their impact on urban food systems.
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    Availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture

    RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2003
    The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.
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    ICTs: transforming agricultural extension?

    Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003
    This document reports on a workshop held by CTA on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for ACP agricultural and rural development.
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    The determinants of livestock prices in Niger

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1995
    This article suggest that not only does livestock makes an important contribution to rural incomes and export earnings in the Sahel, it is also kept as insurance against weather risk.The article concludes that:fluctuations in livestock prices can trigger food entitlement failureslivestock prices respond to droughts and pasture availabilitylivestock prices are also exposed to agg

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