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    The impact of the International Food Policy Research Institute's Research Program on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    This study examines the impact of IFPRI's multi-country research project on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor (IRFPP) within four countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Ghana and Malawi). It also examines IRFPP's contribution to global knowledge about rural finance and food security.
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    Malawi's food crisis: causes and solutions

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
    This brief report examines the assumptions that the 2001-2003 food crisis in Malawi was the result of poor management of grain reserves, corruption and a severe drought. It argues that these often-cited ‘causes’ are partial explanations at best.
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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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    The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

    Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003
    This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p
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    Why is southern Africa hungry?: the roots of southern Africa's food crisis

    Christian Aid, 2003
    This paper, based on Christian Aid's submission to the House of Commons International Select Committee on International Development, takes an in-depth look at the causes of southern Africa's crisis and looks to ‘real’ solutions beyond the continuation of the humanitarian relief effort.Issues addressed include:Chronic poverty - Food shortages are endemic among subsistence farmers
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    World Bank and IMF agricultural reforms: contributing to famine?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The focus of the UN summit in Johannesburg in September 2002 was ‘people, planet and prosperity’, yet at the same time, Johannesburg is the staging post for millions of tonnes of UN food aid. About 13 million people in southern Africa face severe food shortages and famine. What are the causes of this crisis and who is responsible?
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    Country issues papers [Food security] for southern Africa

    Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003
    The purpose of these five papers is to assess the current priority food security concerns in the selected countries: Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.They are grouped around four organising themes: Vulnerability context: implications of how vulnerability has changed over the last decade for development policy interventions, with particular attention to the impact of HIV/
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    Regional issues in food security for southern Africa

    Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003
    This short brief presents food security policy issues for southern Africa that arise at the regional, or supra-national, level.
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    Policy options for increasing the contribution of social protection to food security

    Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003
    This paper asks: What social protection policies and institutions are needed to achieve the food security goal of ensuring adequate and appropriate food at affordable prices to all southern Africans at all times?The report defines social protection, sets out several dilemmas facing the implementation of effective social protection measures in southern Africa, and asks why the people in southern
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    Towards identifying impacts of HIV/AIDS on food insecurity in Southern Africa and implications for response: findings from Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe

    SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2003
    This paper, published by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Development Unit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) examines the contribution of HIV and AIDS to the problems faced by rural households. It focuses on southern Africa in the context of the 2002 food emergency.

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