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  Hunger, private property rights, and the right to food

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002

  This paper questions whether the right to food as a minimum requirement for social and economic welfare, are fully compatible with freedom rights (on which property rights are based) and their implications on private markets.
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  Urban poverty in Bangladesh: the perspective of the Nutritional Surveillance Project

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  How can the rising numbers of people living in extreme poverty in the slums of towns and cities in Bangladesh they be raised from poverty?
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  Urban challenges to food and nutrition security

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This research centre holds information from IFPRI's research program Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security.
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  Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000

  This document reports on the DFID/NRI/FRI workshop on food security.
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  Working women in an urban setting: traders, vendors, and food security in Accra

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999

  Despite lower incomes and additional demands on their time as housewives and mothers, female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households.
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  Gender and soil fertility in Uganda: a comparison of soil fertility indicators on women’s and men’s agricultural plots

  African Studies Quarterly, 2002

  The study was conducted to determine whether the gender difference in wealth and land allocation between male and female farmers in male-headed households is manifested in soil fertility indicators. It determined chemical fertility levels (fertility indicators) in the composite topsoil samples from 5 woman-owned plots and 5 man-owned plots in Ntanzi village, Uganda, on a Rhodic Ferralsol.
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  Operationalising the right to food in Africa

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2001

  This report focuses on how to implement the right to food in four countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia).
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  Ending the cycle of famine in Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at the issue of poverty and food shortage in Ethiopia and questions why this continues to be a burgeoning issue when Ethiopia has increased its food production by 70% since the 1980s.Reasons for poverty and food insecurity in Ethiopia include:Vulnerability: subsistence agriculture is vulnerable to shortages of water and poor irrigation.
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  Trade in genetically modified food: a survey of empirical studies

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper analyses the current and potential economic impact of GM commodities on world trade.It concludes that: in general, adopters of the more productive GM technologies gain, while non-adopters or GM-critical regions either do not gain at all or only gain some (through changes in world prices), depending on how strongly they segment their markets.
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  Hands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002

  This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UKThis book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh.

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