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  Dar es Salaam: urban livelihood security assessment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This profile reports on an assessment by IFPRI and CARE of a number of impoverished neighbourhoods in Dar es Salaam towards the ultimate goal of targeting assistance to the poor more efficiently.
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  Ethiopia: the urban food-for-work project

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on the successes and shortfalls of CARE Ethiopia's Urban Food-for-Work program (UFFW).
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  Ghana: the Accra urban food and nutrition study

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on an IFPRI analysis of urban food and nutrition security in Accra, conducted with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana and the WHO.The main goal of the research project was to determine how the strategies employed by the urban poor to secure their livelihoods affect households’ food security, the care of children, and their resulting health and nutrit
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  Peru: community kitchens in Peru: CARE Peru

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on IFPRI’s analysis of Peru’s comedores populares (community kitchens) and associated programs.
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  HIV/AIDS: what are the implications for humanitarian action? A literature review

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2003

  This report reviews the growing literature on HIV/AIDS and food security, examines where emergency relief should be situated within the wider response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and considers how humanitarian aid agencies need to take HIV/AIDS into account in the programming of emergency aid.The report considers the complex relationships between HIV/AIDS and food security and that in order to cap
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  World Disasters Report 2003

  International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2003

  In the light of the ‘war on terror’ and the changing landscape in which humanitarian organisations operate, this report asks what ethical dilemmas and moral trade-offs do humanitarians face in an increasingly politicised environment? It further asks if is aid really reaching those in greatest need? Do we even know where humanitarian needs are greatest?
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  The situation of children in Iraq

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This report describes the political and socio-economic context of Iraq, the causes of increased infant mortality since the end of the 1980s, and the efforts made by UNICEF to improve child and maternal nutrition, health and sanitation.
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  Foreign assistance: sustained efforts needed to help Southern Africa recover from food crisis

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This paper documents research on the Southern African food crisis and assesses:factors that contributed to the crisishow well the populations' needs were metobstacles to the food aid effort, andthe challenges to recovery from the crisisThe main findings of the research are that:multiple factors including erratic weather, poorly functioning agricultural sectors ,
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  Country issues papers [Food security] for southern Africa

  Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003

  The purpose of these five papers is to assess the current priority food security concerns in the selected countries: Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.They are grouped around four organising themes: Vulnerability context: implications of how vulnerability has changed over the last decade for development policy interventions, with particular attention to the impact of HIV/
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  Human vulnerability and food insecurity: policy implications

  Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2002

  This paper reviews food security vulnerability concepts and relates these to proximate as well as long run factors implicated in the food security crisis in southern Africa.Findings include:some principal causes of broad scale rising vulnerability across the southern African region are: growth failures, rising poverty and declining migration options market failures in the c

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