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    Governing the GM crop revolution: policy choices for developing countries

    2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000
    This paper introduces a system for classifying policy choices toward GM crops in the areas of intellectual property rights, food safety, biosafety, trade, and public research investment.
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    Food aid and livelihoods in emergency situations: strategies for the World Food Programme

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2003
    This paper by the World Food Programme (WFP) was prepared to establish a policy statement on livelihoods-focussed response in emergency situations.The paper particularly highlights:that supporting livelihoods requires an understanding of the assets, capabilities and activities that men and women use to ensure their means of livingin emergencies, analysing the impact of the crisis on
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    Conflicts, rural development and food security in West Africa

    Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004
    This paper examines food security in the context of conflict in West Africa, examining the relationship between the two.
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    Understanding the dynamics of socio-economic mobility: tales from two Indian villages

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    This paper examines the factors impacting on livelihoods in rural India.
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    The role of social relations in farmer seed systems and reconstruction of agricultural production in a post-disaster situation

    LinKS Project: Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems for Food Security, FAO, 2004
    This article looks at seed flow in the post-flood situation experienced by Southern Mozambique in the year 2000. It looks at the local processes of seed acquisition based on the traditional values of help and solidarity. Too often seed relief programmes are based on the assumption that farmers themselves are not able to rehabilitate their seeds in times of crisis.
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    Facing the challenge of an HIV/AIDS epidemic: agricultural extension services in sub-Saharan Africa

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2003
    The role of agricultural extension services is to develop rural human resources with an aim to increase food production. However, the survival of the entire agricultural sector is threatened by the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. This FAO authored paper explores the links between the epidemic and the survival of the farming population in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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    HIV/AIDS and humanitarian action

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2004
    Whether you label HIV/AIDS as an emergency or as a long-term crisis, it clearly requires both a humanitarian response to suffering and a long-term perspective. This research report, produced by the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute, examines the implications of HIV/AIDS in emergencies and of the role of humanitarian aid.
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    Food security: opportunities and responsibilities: or the illusion of the exclusive actor

    Centre for Development Studies, University of Groningen (RUG), 2003
    Reviewing experiences with and learning from the Green Revolution and Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), this report demonstrates how 'the illusion of the exclusive actor' is the most important reason for the stagnation of food production in Africa.The report concludes that opportunities for increased food security and sustainable agricultural development depend on useful interactions bet
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    GM food aid: Africa denied choice again?

    Earthlife Africa, 2004
    This publication by the Africa Center for Biosafety, Earthlife Africa, Environmental Rights Action - Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Grain and SafeAge makes the case that non-GM food aid is both possible and desirable.
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    Evaluating the food for education program in Bangladesh

    Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australia, 2003
    This paper evaluates the effect of the eight year old Bangladeshi Food for Education (FFE) programme on primary school participation and duration of schooling using household sample survey data collected in 2000.Employing various evaluation methodologies, the paper finds that the programme is successful in that participating children, on average, have 20 to 30 per cent higher school participati

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