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  Agricultural dynamics in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines

  Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Israel, 2004

  This paper analyses the determinants of agricultural growth and dynamics in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines from the 1960s to the late 1990s.The introduction of new high-yielding varieties of cereals in the 1960s, known as the green revolution, dramatically changed the food supply in Asia, as well as in other countries.
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  The differential effects on rural income and poverty during a decade of radical change in Malawi

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper reports on a study of rural families in a densely populated area of Malawi, tracking how families have moved up or down in relation to income and welfare from 1986 to 1997. The timing of the study was significant, as major liberalisation policies affecting small-holders were put into place from 1987 onwards.
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  Hunger, poverty and "famine" in Ethiopia: some evidence from twenty rural sites in Amhara, Tigray, Oromiya and SNNP regions

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2003

  This working paper presents some empirical findings related to hunger, poverty and famine based on data collected in twenty rural sites in the Amhara, Tigray, Oromiya and SNNP Regions of Ethiopia between July and September 2003.
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  Targeted food assistance in the context of HIV/AIDS

  Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency, 2004

  This paper from the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE) reviews C-SAFE targeted food assistance programmes. The paper aims to understand the opportunities, constraints and practices associated with targeted food assistance, with particular emphasis on HIV and AIDS-affected individuals and households.
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  Food for assets - adapting programming to an HIV/AIDS context

  Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency, 2004

  This report from the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE) reviews a variety of Food for Assets (FFA) projects with the aim of identifying better practices in FFA programming. It examines the shift from Food for Work approaches, which focused on employment generation, to FFA, which emphasises community managed assets, including the development of human capital.
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  Agricultural price policy for developing countries

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1989

  This book, recently made available free online, focuses on agricultural price policy in the context of economic growth, specifically in relation to technological change.
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  Implementing the right to adequate food: the outcome of six case studies

  Intergovernmental Working Group for the Elaboration of a Set of Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (RTFG), FAO, Rome, 2004

  This paper attempts to explore the question of how the human right to adequate food can be implemented at the country level.
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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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  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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  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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