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  Regional issues in food security for southern Africa

  Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003

  This short brief presents food security policy issues for southern Africa that arise at the regional, or supra-national, level.
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  Unlimited companies: the developmental impacts of an investment agreement at the WTO

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper presents Actionaids response to the issues surroundings the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be held in September 2003.ActionAid is concerned that an investment agreement negotiated at the WTO could inflict lasting damage on the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries.
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  Policy options for increasing the contribution of social protection to food security

  Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003

  This paper asks: What social protection policies and institutions are needed to achieve the food security goal of ensuring adequate and appropriate food at affordable prices to all southern Africans at all times?The report defines social protection, sets out several dilemmas facing the implementation of effective social protection measures in southern Africa, and asks why the people in southern
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  Towards identifying impacts of HIV/AIDS on food insecurity in Southern Africa and implications for response: findings from Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2003

  This paper, published by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Development Unit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) examines the contribution of HIV and AIDS to the problems faced by rural households. It focuses on southern Africa in the context of the 2002 food emergency.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  Nothing to fall back on: why Ethiopians are still short of food and cash

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This report assesses the reasons behind Ethiopia’s poverty and ways in which governments and donors can overcome it. Reasons for Ethiopia’s vulnerability to drought, acute malnutrition and starvation include:
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  The use of genetically modified crops in developing countries

  Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK, 2003

  This discussion paper is a follow-up to the 1999 Report, Genetically modified crops: the ethical and social issues. Contributed as part of the UK public consultation on GM it aims to assess the potential risks and benefits associated with the use of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries in relation to improving food security and economically valuable agriculture.
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  Biotechnology and food security in Africa: some policy and institutional considerations

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002

  This paper asks how biotechnology can affect food security in Africa. It advices caution in either promoting or opposing biotechnology for its own sake.The paper argues that:no technology by and of itself has internal momentum to create food security for any society of region. It is how the technology is applied and moulded by society that determines its usefulness.
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the implications for food security in Kenya

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper argues that for modern biotechnology research to have long term and wider positive social impact in Kenya, changes in policies and institutions must be implemented to ensure that it benefits the smallholder farmers who make up the majority of Kenya’s population.Critical issues examined include:biosafety food safetyloss of biodiversity IPRsThe report makes
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  A summary report from the Mexico Action Summit

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003

  Participants at the Mexico Action Summit explored how increased food production to feed the rural poor can be made compatible with natural resource management and biodiversity stewardship.

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