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  Halving hunger: it can be done

  Millennium Project, 2005

  This final report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger sets out it’s recommendations and interventions for achieving the millennium development goal of halving world hunger by 2015. The report initially examines progress to date with achieving the goal before defining the strategic approach which informs their plans to meet the targets by 2015.
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  What can food policy do to redirect the diet transition?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  Is there a case for public investment in efforts to influence the transition toward increasingly healthy outcomes? This paper argues that with the existence of information asymmetries and negative externalities there is.The paper looks at what food policy can do and identifies a number of options from the food supply and demand sides.
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  Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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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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  Global hunger and food security after the World Food Summit (ODI)

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999
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  The poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.
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  Agriculture, food and nutrition for Africa: A resource book for teachers of agriculture

  Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, 1997

  Resource book for use in sub-Saharan Africa by teachers of agriculture who wish to introduce into their training programmes aspects of the food chain that are related to food consumption and to nutrition. Designed for use by trainers in preparing their teaching material, it is not intended for direct use by students.
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  Understanding linkages among food availability, access, consumption, and nutrition in Africa: empirical findings and issues from the literature

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1995

  By providing new perspectives on linkages between food availability, access, consumption, and nutrition, this report intends to assist policymakers in understanding the nature and extent of relationships among all variables involved in this issue, so as to encourage formulation of more appropriate and sustainable food policies.

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