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FAO Mandate in the World Food Summit Plan of Action (1996)
FAO Right to Food, 1999Paragraph 61 of the World Food Summit Plan of Action, describes recommendations to governments and Civil Society to develop intruments to implement the right to food for everybody.DocumentNGOs and the right to adequate food - Hunger and malnutrition: the human rights approach
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999Chapter from the FAO publication "The right to food in theory and practice" (see separate entry) about the position of NGOs and Civil Society in the debate, containing extracts from a draft "Code of Conduct on the human right to adequate food" which summarises responsibilities of stakeholders at local, national and international level.Despite the recognition of the right to adequate food in theDocumentThe right to food in theory and practice
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999FAO (ed), contributions from different authors from UN, academia and NGO-sector. In this publication, the rights related to food are examined from both the human rights and the operational points of view. Distinguished human rights expert A.DocumentCountry Profiles of Land Tenure: Africa, 1996
Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998These Country Profiles represent a new edition of a continent-wide set of profiles prepared and published by the Land Tenure Center in 1986. This new volume reflects a decade of intensive work on the continent by LTC and a very considerable deepening of knowledge and understanding of land tenure issues in Africa.DocumentBiotechnology in Crops: Issues for the developing world
Oxfam, 1998Overview of issues and actors in the debate on genetically modified crops.DocumentThe Shift from Development to Emergency Assistance and its Impact on Poverty and Nutrition
1999Increasing amounts of bilateral and multilateral aid are being used to respond to macroeconomic shocks, political instability and natural disasters. This paper sets out a conceptual framework for considering the consequences of this trend. There are three levels of analysis: provision; coverage; and assessment of impact.DocumentSolutions outside the Box: can we finally implement the human right to food
Overseas Development Institute, 1999ODI seminar in the series "A Rights-based Approach to Development: from Theory to Practice", including the paper presented to the UNDP/UNHCHR/Government of Norway Symposium on Human Development and Human Rights in Oslo, 2-3 October 1998DocumentNew technologies and the global race for knowledge
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999The recent great strides in technology present tremendous opportunities for human developmenbut achieving that potential depends on how technology is used.DocumentFailed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.