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  Diversity on the Deccan Plateau

  GRAIN, 2002

  Case study examining the relationship between traditional rain fed agricultural methods, food security and agricultural biodiversity in the poor growing conditions on the Deccan plateau in Southern India. The article describes the implementation of careful and complex farming strategies used in the region to extract the most benefit from the fragile dryland soils.
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  Diversity in income-generating activities for sedentarized pastoral women in northern Kenya

  International Livestock Research Institute, 2000

  This article explores how women adopt new town-based income generation activties as they settle around market centres. The study focuses on this process among East Africa pastoralists.
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  Afghanistan: a new era of humanitarian assistance

  Conflict Prevention Initiative, Harvard University, 2002

  This policy brief aims at providing basic information on humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.
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  Gender, pastoralism, and intensification: changing environmental resource use in Morocco

  Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1998

  Through a study of the sedentarization of the Beni Guil pastoral nomads of eastern Morocco,this paper examines how gender interacts with environmental and socio-economic change.
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  Monitoring crop production from the ground

  Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2000

  Short paper providing basic information on indicators of the quality of crop production, guidance on gathering information on the status of crop growth during field visits to important areas of agricultural production , and suggestions of potentially useful networks for information gathering that are available in most FEWS countries.The paper indicates questions to ask and sources of informatio
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  Assessing urban food security: adjusting the FEWS rural vulnerability assessment framework to urban environments

  Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2000

  This paper aims to sensitize FEWS field staff to urban food security issues and to build their capacity to guide, design, and implement urban vulnerability assessments (VAs) and food security monitoring.
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  Forests, food security and sustainable livelihoods

  Unasylva, FAO, 2000

  Unasylva issue looking at different perpectives on issues of physical and economic access to food for forest dependent peoples. Articles are structured as a series of case studies from around the world to analyse the linkages between food security and problems such as degradation and deforestation.
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  Intellectual property and the knowledge gap

  Oxfam, 2001

  Policy paper for presentation to the world social forum 2002. Provides a basic introduction to issues relating to IPRs, bilateral regulation, the TRIPS agreement and the impact of these policies on developing countries.
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  Descent into disaster?: Afghan refugees

  Middle East Report, 2001

  This article discusses the refugee situation in Afghanistan and surrounding countries.The article finds that:inside Afghanistan, millions of Afghans rely on international food aid for survivalthe international community has left Pakistan to manage the flood of refugees into its country on its own in a faltering economythere has been increasing hostility to Afghan refugee within
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  Women livestock managers in the third world: a focus on technical [issues]

  Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1994

  There has been a significant lack of understanding and of women's role in livestock production which has consequently been largely underestimated and ignored.This report examines women's technical knowledge of and involvement in livestock production in Asia, Africa and Latin America and provides guidelines on how these issues can be incorporated in IFAD's project cycle to the benefit of rural w

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