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  Look, listen and learn: promoting the use of CSOs’ evidence in policies for food security

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  How can the work done by the many Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Southern Africa be incorporated into policymaking processes around food security?
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  Food aid: a primer

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2005

  This introduction to food aid reviews various definitions of food aid and terminology used by practitioners and academics.
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  Food safety and consumer choice policy

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This working paper identifies policy choices and tradeoffs with respect to agricultural biotechnology for the Southern African region. It analyses the scientific basis for food safety concerns and the way policies of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) do or do not address these concerns.
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  State intervention for food price stabilisation in Africa: can it work?

  Programme of Advisory and Support Services to DFID, 2005

  This paper discusses the options for the stabilisation of the prices of staple foods principally in Eastern and Southern Africa. It addresses three broad questions: Why is the stabilisation of food prices desirable? What is technically feasible?
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  Agrarian reform in the context of food sovereignty, the right to food and cultural diversity: “land, territory and dignity”

  International NGO/CSO Planning Committee, 2006

  Through an analysis of the right to adequate food and the right to land, this civil society report, argued that achieving food sovereignty requires agrarian reform.
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  Household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS) for measurement of food access: indicator guide

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2006

  Measuring food insecurity is a complex, multidimensional concept, and has been an ongoing challenge for researchers and practitioners. Household-level measures of food access have, until recently, been technically difficult, data-intensive, and costly to collect.This document is a guide for implementing the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS).
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  Status of food security and prospects for agricultural development in Africa

  African Union, 2005

  This review of the African agriculture sector reveals the unchallenged prominence of the sector in the economies of most African countries, in terms of its contribution to GDP, export earnings and employment. Accelerating agricultural growth in African countries is crucial not only for achieving food security and reducing hunger but also for generating employment and trade.
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  Reviewing ten years of the School Nutrition Programme

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope.
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  Food security information systems supported by Save the Children UK

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This document discusses a strengthening of livelihoods-based Food Security Information Systems (FSIS) within governments, UN agencies and other institutions.
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  The state of food insecurity in the world, 2005

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  The FAO food insecurity report of 2005 focuses on the critical importance of hunger reduction, which is the explicit target of the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) and of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1) which calls for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger.

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