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  Biocharred pathways to sustainability? Triple wins, livelihoods and the politics of technological promise

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2010

  Considerable hype and debate are currently surrounding the potential of biochar (charcoal created through the burning of biomass in low oxygen environments) in climate change mitigation and agriculture. This report attempts to summarise the arguments, assumptions and interests in the biochar debate and offer reflections on its prospects.
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  Action research on the development of appropriate technology for mud crab (Scylla olivacea) culture through active participation of poor women in the impact zone of the Sundarban mangrove forest, Bangladesh

  Community Advancement And Research Initiatives, Bangladesh, 2012

  An action research on the development of appropriate technology for mud crab (Scylla olivacea) culture through active participation of six poor women was carried out in Mithakhali, Mongla, Bagerhat from August 2003 to July, 2004.
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  Assuring Food Security in Developing Countries under the Challenges of Climate Change: Key Trade and Development Issues of a Fundamental Transformation of Agriculture

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2011

  For a large number of developing countries, agriculture remains the single most important sector. Climate change has the potential to damage irreversibly the natural resource base on which agriculture depends, with grave consequences for food security.
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  Impact of Increasing Landlessness on Access to Food: Experience of Small and Marginal Farmers in Rural Bangladesh

  Unnayan Onneshan, 2009

  In Bangladesh, food insecurity remains a reality for millions, including farmers and landless labourers. Due to increasing population, unjust market intervention, poor governance, medium and small farmers are losing their productive land and becoming landless gradually.
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  Rice Technologies: Strategic Choices and Policy Options

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009

  This Policy Brief discusses the issues of maintaining national food self-sufficiency in Bangladesh in the face of emerging challenges in the agriculture sector. It has been funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
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  African Agricultural R&D in the New Millennium: Progress for Some, Challenges for Many

  2011

  Investment in agricultural research and development (R&D) in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by more than 20 percent from 2001-08 but most of this growth occurred in only a few countries, principally Nigeria. Spending in most of the region stagnated or fell. Even where funding increased, much of the money went to boost low salaries and rehabilitate infrastructure after years of neglect.
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  Living on a Spike

  Oxfam, 2011

  The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 2010 and into early 2011, Oxfam and research partners from the Institute of Development Studies spoke to people effected in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, and Zambia.
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  Human Rights Impact Assessment in the Context of Biofuels: Addressing the Human Right to Food and the Human Right to Water

  2010

  The original mandate of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights said that he should „develop materials and methodologies for undertaking human rights impact assessments.‟ Since then, tools for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) have developed by different actors. This article reviews two such tools, both of which are up for revision in 2010.
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  The Gender Implications of Large-Scale Land Deals

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011

  Large-scale land deals by investors in developing countries are generating considerable attention. However key stakeholders have so far paid little attention to a dimension of these deals essential to truly understanding their impact: gender.
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  Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012

  This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.

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