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    Climate change and hunger: responding to the challenge

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge.
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    Breaking the poverty/malnutrition cycle in Africa and the Middle East

    Organización Panamericana de Salud, 2009
    Poverty, hunger and malnutrition are coexisting in Africa and parts of the Middle East, creating inequalities that need to be addressed politically. This paper reviews the experiences with facing malnutrition in Sub-Saharan and North Africa and the Middle East. The authors indicate the following findings:
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    Climate change: storm brewing for Uganda's booming tea industry

    Participatory Research with Farmers, International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), 2011
    Tens of thousands of Uganda’s tea producers – many of them Fairtrade certified – will need to take decisive action to protect their crop and their livelihoods if the latest climate change predictions come true.
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    United Nations Development Assistance Framework Jamaica 2012-2016

    United Nations Development Programme, 2011
    Jamaica is on track to ensure environmental sustainability and to eradicate extreme hunger, but it faces a number of development challenges. United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2012-2016 provides a coordinated strategy for the delivery of UN assistance to Jamaica to meet its development objectives.
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    Integrating gender issues in food security, agriculture and rural development

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
    In line with ongoing reforms aimed at a more effective and coherent UN system and wider efforts for greater harmonization and alignment of aid delivery, Joint Programmes have become increasingly numerous over the past two years. Joint Programmes open up significant opportunities to strengthen a collective UN response to supporting gender equality at country level.
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    Caste, Land and Labor Market Imperfections, and Land Productivity in Rural Nepal

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    This paper provides new evidence on the caste-related land productivity differential and its explanations in rural Nepal using household plot panel data. Low-caste households are found to have significantly higher land productivity on their owner-operated plots as compared to high-caste households.
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    The International Journal of Bahamian Studies

    International Journal of Bahamian Studies is a scholarly peer-reviewed research journal published by The College of The Bahamas.
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    Beyond the Arab awakening: policies and investments for poverty reduction and food security

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
    It is argued that the Arab World has awakened, and it is time to take the next steps. This publication aims to inform and stimulate the debate on key policy priorities for poverty reduction and food security in light of the Arab Awakening. The report demonstrates the following findings:
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    Ethiopia's sesame sector: the contribution of different farming models to poverty alleviation, climate resilience and women's empowerment

    Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2011
    Oxfam commissioned this research to assess the contribution of different agricultural business models to poverty alleviation, livelihood security, climate resilience, and empowerment of women in the sesame sector in Metekel and Assosa in Benishangul Gumuz, Ethiopia....
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    Modeling choice of fuelwood source among rural households in Malawi: a multinomial probit analysis

    Eldis Document Store, 2010
    In Malawi, biomass energy accounts for more than 90% of the total primary energy consumption, and forests contribute nearly 75% of the total biomass supply. This paper addresses two questions: what determines Malawian household's choice of fuel-wood source and, what are the environmental consequences of fuel-wood collection from Malawi’s forest reserves?

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