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  Addressing seed security in disaster response: linking relief with development

  Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2004

  This volume contains eight case studies on seed aid in Africa. The case studies were undertaken to evaluate various forms of emergency seed aid in the field and to couple these with analyses of the broader seed and crop systems.
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  Mapping trade policy: understanding the challenges of civil society participation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper examines the way that a range of development actors view and engage with the arena of trade policy, focusing in particular on the challenges encountered by civil society actors participating in that arena.
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  The impact of market liberalisation on the Lake Victoria fishery

  Network of Ugandan Researchers and Research Users, 2002

  This report analyses the effects of market liberalisation on the Lake Victoria fishery in Uganda, drawing on a review of secondary literature, a field survey, and statistical analysis. It attempts to establish the relationship between annual exploitable fish stocks, the amount of effort allocated to fishing activity in the area, and fish price changes during 1976-2002.
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  Poverty analysis from a gender perspective: a case study of Kiboga District

  Network of Ugandan Researchers and Research Users, 2002

  This paper aims to identify factors that inhibit or enable increased productivity and well-being of women and men at household level and to analyse what institutional and community support is available to household members, drawing on case studies from two villages in Kiboga District, Uganda.
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  Cracking down on the HIV/AIDS crisis: can global targets work?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Globally, 40 million people live with HIV/AIDS; 5 million people were infected with HIV in 2001. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 to halt and reverse the spread of the disease is critical to other aspects of human development. However, this goal must consider how the disease develops in different regional and national contexts.
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  Youth speak out: new voices on the protection and participation of young people affected by armed conflict

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of the problems and challenges young people face during and after armed conflict and also offers youth-driven solutions for addressing these problems. The report draws on participatory research conducted by more than 150 adolescents in Kosovo, northern Uganda and Sierra Leone.
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  Where have all the babies gone? HIV and fertility in Uganda

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Women with HIV tend to have fewer babies. Are they less likely to get pregnant? Or do they have a greater risk of miscarriage or stillbirth? Researchers at the UK Medical Research Council Programme on AIDS in Uganda tried to answer these questions by following a group of 191 women in the south-west of the country.
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  Increasing women’s role in food security in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Women play a key role in securing food throughout Africa, yet local customs and legal institutions often discriminate against women, denying them access to land, resources, education and public services. Healthcare is also an issue, particularly HIV/AIDS. Women have to care for themselves and for sick relatives, leaving less time to find or produce food.
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  Deepening democracy through hearing farmers voices

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Listening to the opinions of the rural poor is very important to many development processes, such as the planning and delivery of services and forming policies. In many countries, donors and governments are establishing formalised procedures to enable opinions from many different people to be heard.
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  Severe poverty and growth: a macro-micro analysis

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper discusses the relationship between growth and poverty and argues that there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate policy and institutional changes that would enable an exit out of poverty.

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