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    Food insecurity in Afghanistan 1999 - 2002: Qaht-e-pool: a cash famine

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2002
    Explains why currently there is vulnerability to food insecurity in Afghanistan and how vulnerable individuals, households and communities are coping with food insecurity.
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    Fighting famine in Southern Africa: steps out of the crisis

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    Briefing paper on policy approaches that IFPRI research in Africa has shown to be effective in fighting famine.
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    State of disaster: Causes, consequences & policy lessons from Malawi

    ActionAid International, 2002
    Action Aid report which examines the immediate causes and underlying vulnerabilities which led to the food crisis in Malawi in 2001 and which threatens to cause further famine in 2002. The report challenges a number of fallacies about the famine and concludes that it occurred as a result of the increased vulnerability of rural livelihoods combining with weak institutional policies and responses.
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    Searching for a better regional surveillance mechanism in East Asia

    Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2002
    This paper critically reviews existing surveillance mechanisms for financial cooperation, and explores measures to strengthen the surveillance process through regional policy dialogue.While the East Asian crisis underscored the need for regional cooperation, currently, only shallow forms of financial cooperation (comprising a common international reserve pooling or mutual credit arrangement) ex
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    Pastoral early warning and early response systems in the greater horn of Africa (workshop proceedings)

    Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2001
    This report summarises the proceedings of a regional workshop on Pastoral Early Warning and Response Systems, held in Mombasa, Kenya from November 13-15, 2001.
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    The 1998 floods in Bangladesh: disaster impacts, household coping strategies, and response

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    This report, based on data from a survey of 757 rural households in seven flood-affected regions (thanas ) and on analysis of secondary data on food grain markets, describes how government policy, well-functioning private markets, household coping strategies,and donor and NGO interventions combined to maintain availability and access to food.Concludes that, in spite of severe disruption to food
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    Global food for education initiative faces challenges for successful implementation

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
    Evaluation of USDA's implemention of food for education programmes.It found that: In general, research and expert views on the effectiveness of school feeding programs indicate that the programs are more likely to have positive results when they are carefully targeted and integrated with other educational, health, and nutritional interventions.To be effective, programs need to be target
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    Food and education in the reconstruction of Afghanistan

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
    Report of consultation workshop, 17-20 February 2002, Islamabad, Pakistan. Includes review of experience with previous food-assisted education in Afghanisatan
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    Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
    This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.
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    Food security and public distribution system in Rajasthan

    Institute of Development Studies Jaipur, India, 2002
    This paper studies two aspects of food security in Rajasthan availability and access to food for households. The government ensures food security at the household level in two ways: through the Public Distribution System (PDS) and through ensuring entitlements of poor households through programmes such as 'Food for Work'.

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