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    Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)

    Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation founded in 1993, currently operating in five 5 Indian states: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan a
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    The poverty and welfare impacts of climate change quantifying the effects, identifying the adaptation strategies

    World Bank, 2012
    Although poverty remains widespread in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, substantial progress has been made especially in the past three decades. Nevertheless, this report stresses that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, which will directly affect poor people's livelihood assets including health, access to water and other natural resources, homes and infrastructure.
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    Seasonality and Social Protection in Africa

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009
    Stephen Devereux January 2009 This Working Paper draws on nearly twenty years of research in several African countries on the inter-related themes of food insecurity, seasonality, coping strategies, famine, formal and informal safety nets and social protection. The paper has three objectives:
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    Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut

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    Dissonance in Development. Foreign aid and state formation in Malawi

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    This PhD thesis focuses on certain characteristics of the state and of state formation in Malawi, with particular emphasis on the effects of development aid.
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    Small-scale fisheries: assessing their contribution to rural livelihoods in developing countries

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006
    The contributions of small-scale fisheries are often interlinked and interdependent. This paper provides a critical overview of the contribution of small-scale fisheries to the livelihoods of rural populations in developing countries.
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    Planning and costing adaptation of perennial crop farming systems to climate change: Coffee and banana in Rwanda

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011
    The study objective of evaluating and costing the most suitable climate change adaptation measures responding to the Rwandan Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy, 2008-2012, in which climate change and its adverse impacts were recently identified as a high priority.
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    Africa human development report 2012: towards a food secure future

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    Due to misguided policies, weak institutions and failing markets, sub-Saharan Africa has millions of hungry and malnourished people. This first Africa Human Development Report 2012 seeks to look beyond direct causes of food insecurity, such as crop failure, to highlight the social and political dimensions that are inhibiting progress.
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    Living on a Spike

    Oxfam, 2011
    The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 2010 and into early 2011, Oxfam and research partners from the Institute of Development Studies spoke to people effected in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, and Zambia.
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    Working to break the cycle of hunger and poverty

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2008
    No country has managed a rapid rise from poverty without increasing agricultural productivity. This paper notes that agricultural productivity in many parts of the developing world is stagnant with small-scale impoverished farmers often lacking access to appropriate technologies, efficient farming practices, and links to markets.

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