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    Regional cooperation for poverty alleviation and food security in Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005
    ASEAN has undertaken several initiatives to address the social impact of the recent economic and financial crisis and to deal with the problem of poverty. Regional cooperation in human capital development focuses on the sharing of best practices in and capacity building for employment promotion, manpower planning, skills training, social monitoring, and design of emergency social safety nets.
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    Towards a framework for achieving food security in the mountains of Pakistan

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2014
    This working paper outlines a mountain-specific framework for addressing food security in the mountains of Pakistan. It builds on efforts by ICIMOD together with the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) and the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) to understand the special issues of food security and find solutions in the mountain areas of Pakistan.
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    Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania: a water-energy-food-livelihoods nexus approach for spatially assessing change

    International Water Management Institute, 2014
    This document addresses the need for explicit inclusion of livelihoods within the environment nexus (water-energy-food security). The authors present a conceptualisation of ‘environmental livelihood security’, which combines the nexus perspective with sustainable livelihoods.
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    Background paper: research and development and extension services in agriculture and food security

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    This paper explores the role of applied research for development and extension services through the two-pronged approach of boosting food production and preventing losses. Priority areas for research emphasize attention to smallholder farming systems, practical business models, the integration of gender, and multidisciplinary research that is sensitive to nutritional outcomes.
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    Tackling the double injustice of climate change and gender inequality

    CARE International, 2014
    CARE paper outlining their work on the 'double injustice' of gender and climate change, and identifying key areas that must be addressed.
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    Reducing vulnerability to food price shocks in a changing climate

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2015
    This discussion paper highlights that many countries are highly dependent on food imports and that it is important to recognize this as a form of climate vulnerability, as climate change impacts in producing countries are likely to exacerbate global food price shocks.
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    Revisiting the global food crisis: magnitude, causes, impact and policy options

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The brief period of the 21st century has been marked by a drastic intensification of the global food crisis. The phenomenal surge in fuel and food prices followed by the on-going economic crisis have worked in tandem to increasingly deprive the poor across the world, particularly in the Global South, from their fundamental right to food.
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    Food price inflation in India: causes and cures

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2012
    Inflation in general and food price inflation in particular has been a persistent problem in India over the past few years. Price stability is crucial for sustainable growth as persistent inflation implies higher demand relative to supply.
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    Democratic politics and legal rights: employment guarantee and food security in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    Since 2004, legislation related to social and economic rights has been taken up with renewed energy in India. In its first term, from 2004 to 2009, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government enacted the Right to Information Act 2005, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005, and the Forest Rights Act 2006; in its second term, the Right to Education Act came into force.
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    Challenges to food security in South Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The high levels of under-nutrition and persisting hunger in the region not only calls for an assessment of the situation of food production and consumption but also issues like access to food by the poor in the region. This will have consequent implications for the target of achieving food security in the medium and long term.

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