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  What can food policy do to redirect the diet transition?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  Is there a case for public investment in efforts to influence the transition toward increasingly healthy outcomes? This paper argues that with the existence of information asymmetries and negative externalities there is.The paper looks at what food policy can do and identifies a number of options from the food supply and demand sides.
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  Intellectual property rights, biotechnology and food security

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the relationship between food security, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly for developing countries and poorer groups within those countries.Main findings include:for low income developing countries, the costs of strengthening IPRs may well outweigh the gainspro-IPR industry representatives and trade officials, with p
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  Contexts for regulation: GMOs in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at the regulation of biotechnology in Zimbabwe.
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  Nutrition in the context of conflict and crisis

  United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2002

  This newsletter brings together a collaboration of papers from the symposium on nutrition in conflict and crisis.
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  Food policy old and new

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This briefing paper looks at new issues emerging in the food policy arena, including the impacts of urbanisation, industrialisation and globalisation.Some of main concerns and challenges briefly addressed include:imperfect competitionexternalities: health and environmental costsincome distribution effects of changes in the food systempolicy making and regulation are problema
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  Transcending boundaries to improve the food security of AIDS affected households in rural Uganda

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003

  This paper from the International Center for Research on Women provides information on the implementation of a collaborative project to improve household food security in rural Ugandan communities affected by HIV and AIDS. The aim of the project is increased collaboration between communities and specialists to improve the ability of households to meet their food security needs.
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  The impact of the International Food Policy Research Institute's Research Program on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This study examines the impact of IFPRI's multi-country research project on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor (IRFPP) within four countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Ghana and Malawi). It also examines IRFPP's contribution to global knowledge about rural finance and food security.
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  Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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  Is subsidised childcare working in Guatemala City?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  As poor urban women come under increasing pressure to travel long distances to find work, what happens to their children? What can be done to improve childcare? Could neighbourhood-based childcare schemes not only mind children while mothers work, but also improve their nutritional status and offer pre-school education?
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  A solid case for improving waste reuse in Mali and Burkino Faso

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What are the links between urban waste management and peri-urban agriculture? How could waste be safely recycled to benefit farmers on the outskirts of cities? What policies are needed to encourage private sector engagement in waste sorting and redistribution and promote links between waste managers and peri-urban farmers?

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