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    Food security situation in Northern Ghana: coping strategies and related constraints

    African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2008
    This paper looks at the food security situation in three regions of Northern Ghana and examines how farmer households cope during food insecure periods.
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    Water and the rural poor: interventions for improving livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

    Land and Water Development Division, FAO, 2008
    Insecure access to water for consumption and productive uses is a major constraint on poverty reduction in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This publication addresses the linkage between water and rural poverty in the region, in order to help decision-makers make informed choices on where and how to invest.
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    Operational guidelines for assessing impacts of agricultural research on livelihoods: Good practices from CIMMYT

    Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo, 2007
    Following a livelihoods approach, this manual responds to the need of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) scientists and field partners for guidance on impact assessment (IA).
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    Trends in sustainable development

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2008
    This report highlights key developments and recent sustainability trends in agriculture, rural development, land, desertification and drought, five of the six themes being considered by the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) at its 16th and 17th sessions (2008-2009).
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    Improving land access for India's rural poor

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2008
    Since Independence, India’s states have employed several land reform ‘tools,’ including reforming tenancy, imposing land ceilings, distributing government wasteland, and allocating house sites and homestead plots. This article briefly summarises some of these past efforts and attempts to draw broad lessons for informing possible policy paths ahead.
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    A future with no one living in poverty and hunger: highlights from an international youth writing contest

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007
    How can global hunger be eliminated in the next twelve years? One way to find out is to ask future leaders what they think. As part of its 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and Environment, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has been running international youth writing competitions since 2001 and results are shared with governments and policy makers.
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    The right to food and the impact of liquid biofuels (agrofuels)

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
    This paper examines the impact of biofuel production on the human right to freedom from hunger. It is argued that liquid biofuel production has already served to weaken access to food resources for the poor and vulnerable and in the future, will continue to threaten such food access in at least three ways:
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    Introduction: new directions for African agriculture

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Most of Africa’s poor are rural, and most rely largely on agriculture for their livelihoods. It is therefore widely agreed that “getting agriculture moving” must be part of the solution to the seemingly intractable problem of African poverty.
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    Food systems and the escape from poverty and illhealth traps in sub‐Saharan Africa

    Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2008
    Millennium Development Goal number 1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day per person) and hunger. Progress toward this goal has been excellent at global level, led by China and India, but largely insufficient in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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    Secure land rights for all

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2008
    Secure land rights are important for development and poverty reduction and the greatest challenges for providing such rights are in urban, peri-urban areas, and the most productive rural areas.

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