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  Knowledge and Information for Food Security in Africa: from traditional Media to the Internet

  Communication for Development (ComDev), FAO, 1998

  Draws on experiences with a range of communication technologies in Africa - from traditional media to the Internet - to examine the important role of knowledge and information for food security.
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  Family Influences on Zimbabwean Women’ s Reproductive Decisions and their Participation in the Wider Society

  Family Health International, 1999

  Explores the roles of husbands and mothers-in-law in reproductive decision-making and women’s participation in development. It addresses the question of whether women and their families believe lower fertility should enable young mothers to engage in activity outside the domestic sphere.
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  Environmental change and human health in countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 1999

  Aims to first briefly describe the broad global, economic, political, social, institutional context in which ACP countries currently find themselves. Describes the health status and key health threats in ACP countries in an environmental context and reviews environmental developments in the region and the ways in which they are influencing health.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on food security

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001

  This article begins by emphasising that HIV/AIDS cannot be considered solely as a health problem and sufficient efforts are needed to address its social, economic and institutional consequences. Indeed the report suggests that increasingly, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is having a major impact on nutrition, food security, agricultural production and rural societies in many countries.
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  Labour market aspects of state enterprise reform in Viet Nam

  OECD Development Centre, 1996

  State-owned enterprise (SOE) restructuring has proceeded more rapidly in Viet Nam than, for example, in China and India. The government tightened the budget constraints facing SOEs virtually simultaneously with price liberalisation.
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  Adjustment and Equity

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Adjustment does not necessarily increase poverty.Adjusting before a crisis reduces social costs.Refusal to adjust and the suspension of imports leads to self-centred underdevelopment, which is socially much more costly. The choice of macroeconomic stabilisation measures is important: the same result can be obtained with higher or lower social costs.
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  Understanding linkages among food availability, access, consumption, and nutrition in Africa: empirical findings and issues from the literature

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1995

  By providing new perspectives on linkages between food availability, access, consumption, and nutrition, this report intends to assist policymakers in understanding the nature and extent of relationships among all variables involved in this issue, so as to encourage formulation of more appropriate and sustainable food policies.
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  Zambia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Main purpose of this report is to present a balanced assessment of prospects for sustainable growth in smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the light of recent reforms. Given their historical underdevelopment in Zambia, and policy emphasis on the interface between state and market, the report also focuses particularly on the role of NGOs.
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  Increasing the nutritional impacts of agricultural interventions

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 1999

  Study provides information on program and policy options. The findings and recommendations are based on an extensive review of the literature as well as interviews with researchers, USAID managers and other development and donor organizations.
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  The bitterest pill of all: the collapse of Africa's health system

  Save the Children Fund, 2001

  World leaders are discussing a multi-billion dollar package of initiatives aimed at tackling major diseases in poor countries. However, economic crisis and unsuccessful reforms in the past two decades have left many nations with failing health systems. What groundwork is needed before such vast resources are committed?

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