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    Survival, change and decision-making in rural households: three village case studies from eastern Morocco

    Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1998
    This document presents the main findings of a study carried out between 1994 and 1995 in three villages in Eastern Morocco - each representative of a different environmental context.
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    Household food security and the role of women: IFAD's experience in Guatemala

    Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1998
    This paper reviews IFAD's activities in Guatemala and analyses their effects on household food security (HFS)and the status of women.
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    Food for all: can hunger be halved

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    Report providing an introductory overview of issues in light of the FAO's gloomy predictions regarding the global target to halve poverty by 2015. With case studies throughout the paper looks at the connection between hunger and poverty and the policies that are supposed to reduce both.
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    The links between biodiversity and poverty

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
    Poor people, especially those living in areas with low agricultural productivity, depend heavily and directly on genetic, species and ecosystem biodiversity to support their livelihoods. This support takes the shape of contributions to health and nutrition, reduced vulnerability, crop and stock development, and off-farm resource use.
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    Gender and participation in agricultural development planning: key issues from 10 case studies

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998
    Reviews ten case studies written about FAO field projects that tested methods and tools for gender-sensitive participatory agricultural policy making and planning. The projects' shared goal was to facilitate gender-responsive agricultural planning.
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    Food and Nutrition Library, IFPRI Special Edition CD-ROM

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
    This CD-ROM contains 300+ full-text publications from cooperating organisations and agencies, covering food, food policy, nutrition and nutrition research, as well as the complete IFPRI website as of August 2000.The Food and Nutrition Library 1.1 is a cooperative project coordinated by IFPRI, the United Nations University Press and the Humanity Libraries Project.
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    Can social safety nets contribute to poverty reduction in Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    What effect do social safety nets have on poverty – on food security, trade, gender, and social relations? A recent Institute of Development Studies report suggests that the impact is far more wide-ranging and profound than previously thought. Even tiny transfers make a significant difference to the livelihoods of the very poor.
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    Making less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Poor households in Malawi have had to adjust to an array of negative shocks to their livelihoods over the past decade. But what coping strategies do poor people adopt in times of crisis? How successful are they?
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    The determinants of livestock prices in Niger

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1995
    This article suggest that not only does livestock makes an important contribution to rural incomes and export earnings in the Sahel, it is also kept as insurance against weather risk.The article concludes that:fluctuations in livestock prices can trigger food entitlement failureslivestock prices respond to droughts and pasture availabilitylivestock prices are also exposed to agg
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    South African Studies Network (Sussex)

    Centre for the Comparative Study of Culture, Development and the Environment, Sussex University, 1999

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