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  Tomorrow’s hunger: a framework for analysing vulnerability to food insecurity

  Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2005

  This paper seeks to expand a standard food security analytical framework by including risks and the ability to manage these at different levels in order to reduce the probability of people being insecure in the future.
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  Addressing the food crisis in Africa

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2005

  Spelling out the Asian experience with the Green Revolution, this booklet looks at the African food crisis against the background of the Asian experience, and asks what the prospects are for a Green Revolution in Africa.In response to arguments that the Green Revolution never reached Africa because technologies were not suitable and because African governments neglected agriculture, the authors
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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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  Integrating relief and development to accelerate reductions in food insecurity in shock-prone areas

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2003

  Drawing on recent empirical literature on trends in food security location and causes, this paper argues that: the use of a fuller definition of food security, incorporating risk and vulnerability, will strengthen programmes that aim to reduce food insecurity relief and development programs both play important roles in meeting current food needs and reducing risks of losing the ability
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  Using gender research in development

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  This practitioners' guide aims to bridge the gap between research and practice.
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  Food security in the South Pacific island countries with special reference to the Fiji Islands

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  This paper analyses the status of food security in several South Pacific Island countries, namely Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.
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  Food security and nutrition in Bangladesh: progress and determinants

  Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2005

  This paper outlines food security and nutrition in Bangladesh and assess: the trends in factors that affect food production, availability of food and their impact on nutrition outcomes the trends in poverty and distribution of income, and endowment of land that affects people’s access to foodthe government’s strategies and policies for food and nutrition security and safety nets fo
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  Assessing development strategies and Africa's food and nutrition security

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This policy brief outlines recommendations for African governments and other agencies with respect to hunger alleviation.Recommendations include: more progress in key areas such as in reducing social and economic discrimination against women, particularly in improving their access to land, credit, and input and output markets, and in fostering the education of girlsmore progress in
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  Addressing the "in" in food insecurity

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2003

  This policy brief argues for a conceptual shift that explicitly acknowledges the risks that constrain progress towards enhanced food security, and addresses directly the vulnerability of food insecure households and communities by: enhancing peoples’ resiliency to overcome shocks, building people’s capacity to transcend food insecurity with a more durable and diverse livelihood baseinc
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  Special ministerial event on food security and sustainable development in small island developing states

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This paper presented to a special FAO ministerial session in 2005 outlines policies for food security in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) based around three main criteria:food availability – depends on domestic food production or food importation, with vulnerability to, respectively, macro-economic factors or natural disastersfood access – depends on the availability of income to

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