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  Targeted development programmes for the extreme poor: experiences from BRAC experiments

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002

  This paper, published by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), analyses Income Generation for Vulnerable Group Development (IGVGD), a programme initiated by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) which aimed to link food aid with training, savings and credit.
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  Where are the poor?: experiences with the development and use of poverty maps

  Poverty Mapping, 2002

  This document reports on the use of poverty mapping as an instrument for investigating and discussing social, economic, and environmental problems. Within the context of this report, Poverty Mapping is defined as the spatial representation and analysis of indicators of human well being and poverty.
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  HIV and conflict: a double emergency

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report reflects the International Save the Children Alliance’s experience of HIV/AIDS and its effects on young people in conflict situations around the world.In war, HIV/AIDS spreads rapidly as a result of sexual bartering, sexual violence, low awareness about HIV, and the breakdown of vital services in health and education. In conflict situations, young people are most at risk.
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  Death on the doorstep of the summit

  Oxfam, 2002

  The food crisis has many causes but the most significant according to this report, is the failure of agricultural policies.The paper asks why, after years of World Bank and IMF designed agricultural sector reforms, do Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique face chronic food insecurity.
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  Unequal harvest: farmers' voices on international trade and the right to food

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2001

  This paper illustrates a sample of the day-to-day food-security challenges for agricultural workers in the face of liberalised trade policies.
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  AIDS and food security: essays

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  The first essay, titled, 'AIDS the new challenge to food security', considers the scale of the problem and describes some differences between the disease and other health or development problems.The authors note that AIDS brings special problems to food security in that:it affects the most productive in societystigma, cultural attitudes and lack of testing for HIV/AIDS make preventi
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  Agriculture and HIV/AIDS

  HIV and Development in Asia and the Pacific, UNDP, 2002

  This paper brings together work done by FAO, focussing on identifying the impacts of the HIV epidemic. It argues that the agricultural sector should concentrate on areas in which it has a comparative advantage, as opposed to carrying out health work. It identifies the key points of intervention at the farming level and farm-household system.
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  An ex-ante study of cassava varieties on gender relations in Migori district, Kenya

  Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kenya, 2002

  This case study documents the development and testing of a gender-sensitive tool for impact evaluation of agricultural technology appropriate to conditions in Kenya.
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  Sustaining agricultural biodiversity and the integrity and free flow of genetic resources for food for agriculture

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002

  This report claims that agricultural biodiversity is being lost as a result of industrialisation, the globalisation of markets and genetically modified crops.It calls on governments to implement treaties and plans to which they have signed up but are not enforcing.
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  From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afghanistan

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This issue focuses on the economic, social and instiutional restructuring required in Afghanistan to achieve food security and justice.The major areas of action required include:the revival of Afghan agricultureaffirmative actions to restore Afghan women’s rightseducation to develop human capital The articles included are:From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afgha

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