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  Facing the resource curse: Norway's Oil for Development Program. Final report.

  2013

  Oil for Development (OfD), begun in 2005, is a comprehensive program addressing resource, financial and environmental dimensions with a focus on capacity development in the public sector but including larger sector governance concerns.
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  Can China and Brazil help Africa feed itself?

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013

  The questions of how Africa can feed itself, and how the agricultural sector can be a more effective engine for growth and development, have long been targets of national governments. Western donors have increased assistance following the 2007/8 food price crisis.
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  A large-scale intervention to introduce orange sweet potato in rural Mozambique increases vitamin A intakes among children and women

  2012

  b-Carotene-rich orange sweet potato (OSP) has been shown to improve vitamin A status of infants and young children in controlled efficacy trials and in a small-scale effectiveness study with intensive exposure to project inputs.
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  Farmer, trader, and consumer decisionmaking: toward sustainable marketing of orange-fleshed sweet potato in Mozambique and Uganda. 2020 Conference Note 2

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011

  The article discusses efforts to introduce orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) varieties into Africa in an effort to reduce vitamin A deficiency, since the indigenous white-fleshed sweet potato varieties are not high in this micronutrient.
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  Scaling up nutrition: Progress report from countries and their partners in the movement to Scale Up Nutrition (SUN)

  United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2011

  This draft report was prepared for the High Level Meeting on Nutrition at the UN General Assembly in September 2011 and the follow-up workshop for the Scale-Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, which was designed to help nations where people are at risk of under-nutrition and aims to show results within 1,000 days.
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  Developing an indicator-based framework for monitoring older people's human rights: panel, survey and key findings for Peru, Mozambique and Kyrgyzstan

  HelpAge International, 2013

  This project was commissioned by HelpAge International as a basis for broader efforts to develop an indicator-based system for monitoring older people’s human rights in different countries across the world. The project has three key aims:
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  Getting smart and scaling up: responding to the impact of organized crime on governance in developing countries

  Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2013

  The development landscape is rapidly changing and new centres of economic dynamism are emerging. At the same time, organized criminal activity, including illicit trafficking and financial flows, is increasing in these same settings, often fuelling tension or violence among elites or other groups vying for control of illicit markets.
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  Urban space and poverty in Maputo, Mozambique

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2013

  Urbanisation and urban poverty are central aspects of contemporary Africa. While urban areas account for an increasing part of the continent’s positive macro-economic growth and provide opportunities for many, they are also witnessing emerging conditions of inequality and poverty, environmental problems, political instability, violence and crime.
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  South-South REDD. A Brazil–Mozambique initiative for zero deforestation with pan-African relevance

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  A memorandum of understanding between the government of Mozambique through the Ministry for Coordination of Environmental Affairs (MICOA) and the Foundation for Sustainable Amazonas (FAS) signed in 2009 laid the ground for a multi-partner ollaborative initiative designated South–South REDD: A Brazil–Mozambique Initiative for Zero Deforestation with Pan-African Relevance.
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  Assessing Mozambique's PARP/A 2006-2011: local perspectives

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2013

  Six years of impressive economic growth and classical poverty reduction policies in Mozambique have demonstrated the limited extent to which this has ‘trickled down’ to the local level – with the country falling on the Human Development Index and poverty reduction having come to a complete halt.

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