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  Creating a sustainable food future: A menu of solutions to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013

  With population growth and development creating ever-more demand for food (noted here as comprising two-thirds and one-third a function of the increase respectively), humanity faces a growing food gap between what will be needed in 2050, and what can sustainably be produced.
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  Reality checks in Mozambique. Building better understanding of the dynamics of poverty and well-being. Sub-report Lago. Year three.

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2013

  The “Reality Checks in Mozambique” are expected to: Inform the public discussion among key development actors on poverty reduction, especially in the province of Niassa; Contribute to a better understanding of qualitative poverty monitoring methods in Mozambique; Provide Sweden with relevant qualitative data on developments and results from its engagement in Mozambique and support f
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  Climate variability and gender: Emerging experiences from Western Zambia

  Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013

  This paper uses Sesheke district in Western Zambia as a case study on climate variability and gender and relates it to how the livelihoods of natural resource dependent women and men have been affected.
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  Agriculture and nutrition in Pakistan: pathways and disconnects

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2013

  This paper analyses the pathways and disconnects between agriculture and nutrition in the context of Pakistan, using a framework developed by theTackling the Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India (TANDI) research programme.
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  Child labour in cocoa farming in Cote D’Ivorie

  Global March Against Child Labour, 2013

  The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, a West African nation is the leading supplier of cocoa accounting for more than 40 percent of global production. However this production is undertaken using child labour.
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  Dirty cotton - a research on child labour, slavery, trafficking and exploitation in cotton and cotton seed farming in India

  Global March Against Child Labour, 2012

  The introduction of genetically modified or BT cotton in India has increased the demand for cheap labour.  Recognising the need to understand and address the growing concern over the engagement of children in the cotton industry in India, this study examines the issue of child labour in four cotton and cotton seed growing states in – Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra
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  Contribution of Himalayan ecosystems to water, energy, and food security in South Asia: a nexus approach

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012

  In the face of climatic and other socioeconomic changes, most South Asian countries having large and growing population, limited land resources, and increasing water stress face a common challenge of how to grow more food with the same or less land, less water, and increased energy prices.
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  The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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  Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA)

  The Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture is a nine-member alliance focused on increasing global food security by supporting smallholder agriculture within h
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  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA)

  LANSA is a research partnership working together to find out how agriculture and agri-food systems can be better designed to improve nutrition.

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