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    Can Provision of Household Agricultural Extension Packages Reduce Rural Food Insecurity and Poverty in Tigray?

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
    The overall working hypothesis of the paper is that the programme has positive contribution in improving household welfare and reduces the incidence, depth and severity of poverty in study areas. The analysis is based on primary household-level data collected from 959 randomly selected households in three drought prone woredas of Northern Ethiopia in 2009.
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    Justice and sustainability: resistance and innovation in a transnational land deal in Ghana

    World Bank, 2012
    This paper examines the case of a Nordic appropriation of land through a lease agreement with chiefs in southern Ghana, initially for biofuel production and then for large-scale, mechanized food production.The production shift triggered resistance over loss of land and environmental impact, and threatened to destabilize the project.This enticed the company to innovate through improving cooperat
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    Farmers’ Rights Project: Furthering agrobiodiversity as a means of poverty alleviation

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012
    Farmers’ rights related to crop genetic resources are an essential precondition for maintaining crop genetic diversity, which is the basis of all food and agriculture production around the globe. Genetic diversity provides the pool in which plant traits can be found that meet the challenges of crop pests and diseases, of marginal soils, and – not least – of changing climate conditions.
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    Norway & Tanzania: partners in development - booklet from Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania

    2012
    Norway and Tanzania have been partners for 50 years. Political commitment, social, cultural, academic and commercial interactions have created links and relations that go far beyond the traditional development cooperation.
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    Facts on water harvesting

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
    Lack of soil fertility and water stress are two main factors which limit agricultural production critical to food security. Rainfed agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change, causing rainfall to be more scarce and erratic. Harvesting of rain and runoff water, and effective management of water are ancient concerns of populations whose expertise in this area is important.
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    Facts on Ecofarm

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
    The Sahel countries face a range of problems from low food insecurity to environmental problems like climate change and soil degradation.
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    Empowering Small Farmers in India through Organic Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation

    Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 2012
    This PhD dissertation from University of Connecticut investigates how local farming organizations enable and empower small farmers to become independent and selfsufficient.
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    Management for adaptation to climate change. Mid-term review of a project implemented by Total Land Care, Malawi

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
    The Management for Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) project in Malawi is implemented by Total Land Care (TLC) with funding from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Malawi and a 5 years time frame from 2008 to mid 2013.
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    The environmental food crisis: the environment’s role in averting future food crises. A UNEP rapid response assessment

    GRID Arendal, 2009
    This report provides the first summary by  the UN of how climate change, water stress, invasive pests and land degradation may impact world food security, food prices and how we may be able to feed the world in a more sustainable manner. The report examines the need to get smart and more creative about recycling food wastes.
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    Why is land productivity lower on land rented out by female landlords?: theory, and evidence from Ethiopia

    Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008
    There is a common view and belief that women are the ones that do the farming in Africa while the men do not work much. This paper seeks to find explanations to why land productivity is lower on land rented out by female landlord households than on land rented out by male landlord households in the Ethiopian highlands.

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