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    The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005
    This paper looks at the differences across countries in Latin American and Caribbean region in terms of their chances of attaining the Goals and, wherever possible, the differences between trends in various segments of the population (classified by gender, ethnic group, age group, place of residence and income stratum) as a means of helping to pinpoint the areas in which efforts must be redoubled
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    ICTs and the global food price crisis

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This study identifies four linkages between ICTs and the global food price crisis, each representing a potential entry point for Acacia. The four entry points that this paper presents: Prevention of the crisis Monitoring the crisis Management of the crisis and Study of the crisis
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    Impacts of increasing production costs on rice price: implications for food security

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
    Food security is a major concern in Bangladesh due to the ever-increasing population as well as agricultural commodities' heightening costs. This paper sheds light on possible solutions to the challenge facing the Bangladeshi government to keep prices of rice within an accessible limit for the poor and to maintain a fair price for local farmers.
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    Food aid and commercial imports of GM commodities: the case of Malawi

    University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2006
    During the past two decades Malawi has increasingly relied on imports and food aid to compensate for recurring food production deficits.
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    Urban agriculture and poverty reduction: evaluating how food production in cities contributes to livelihood entitlements in Malawi

    Leeds University, 2007
    Urban agriculture (UA) can reduce poverty but there is need for more precise analyses on how it contributes to food security. A study in Malawi,revealed two predominant types of urban farmers:
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    Technologies for climate change adaptation: agriculture sector

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
    The agriculture sector faces the challenge of providing adequate food to a growing world population. There is limited scope to expand arable land, and unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastrous events make food production even more challenging. This guidebook provides information on 22 technologies and options for adapting to climate change in the agriculture sector.
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    Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: rethinking the links in the rural South

    University of Durham, 2006
    Livelihoods in the rural South are becoming increasingly separated from farming and land. Non-farm opportunities have expanded and increased the levels of mobility leading to the delocalisation of livelihoods. This requires a reconsideration of some old questions regarding how best to achieve pro-poor development in the Rural South.
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    Agricultural adaptation, local knowledge and livelihoods diversification in North-Central Namibia

    Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2009
    The potential implications of climate change have started to receive more attention in Namibia. Water demand in the country is projected to exceed its extraction capacity by 2015, meaning that climate change will adversely affect the agricultural sector. This report looks at adaptation to climate change amongst smallholder farmers in the Omusati region of North-Central Namibia.
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    The rural non-farm economy: prospects for growth and poverty reduction

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2010
    Non-farm earnings account for 35 to 50 per cent of rural household income across the developing world. Landless and near-landless households everywhere depend heavily on non-farm income for their survival, while agricultural households count on non-farm earnings to diversify risk, moderate seasonal income swings and finance agricultural input purchases.
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    Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihoods, practices and policies

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2000
    The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered a huge, unplanned income diversification response in African rural areas making rural populations become more occupationally flexible, spatially mobile and increasingly dependent on non-agricultural income-generating activities.

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