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    Is subsidised childcare working in Guatemala City?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As poor urban women come under increasing pressure to travel long distances to find work, what happens to their children? What can be done to improve childcare? Could neighbourhood-based childcare schemes not only mind children while mothers work, but also improve their nutritional status and offer pre-school education?
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    A solid case for improving waste reuse in Mali and Burkino Faso

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the links between urban waste management and peri-urban agriculture? How could waste be safely recycled to benefit farmers on the outskirts of cities? What policies are needed to encourage private sector engagement in waste sorting and redistribution and promote links between waste managers and peri-urban farmers?
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    Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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    Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
    This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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    Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
    This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW).
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    Ending the handout mentality: putting participation into emergency responses

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Are aid agencies mistaken in thinking that conflicts are not the norm? During complex political emergencies, aid agencies prioritise tackling food insecurity but do they also reflect on the developmental consequences of the way they provide food aid? Could the humanitarian community do more to involve aid recipients and to build local capacity in the midst of conflict?
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    Young Lives preliminary country report: Peru

    Young Lives, 2003
    Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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    Engineering nutrition: GM crops for global justice?

    Food Ethics Council, 2003
    This report challenges the dominant view of the scientific establishment that the future of agriculture lies with genetic modification technologies.
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    Famine in Ethiopia: is food aid the answer?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    As the world geared up to provide fourteen million Ethiopians with the food aid needed to guarantee their survival, the question remains – why is there still such widespread hunger in Ethiopia? Have donors and the Ethiopian Government failed to address the root causes of the country’s perennial food insecurity?
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    Understanding linkages between urban poverty, livelihoods and natural resources

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    How are the conditions in which the urban poor live affected by changes in rural economies? How do policies targeted at rural populations indirectly affect urbanites? Can pro-poor urban policies be developed which take into account the importance of natural resources to the urban poor?

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