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  Dynamic livelihoods: making the most of rural-urban connections

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This briefing seeks to dispel myths surrounding rural as opposed to urban; and challenge the way that these categories are often simplistically used in development policy. Instead of seeing the rural and urban as distinct and separate categories, the authors advocate an understanding of the complex synergies between them. In short, policy makers need to focus less on sectors and more on systems.
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  The rural finance landscape. A practitioner's guide

  Network Learning, 2009

  Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, money lenders, traditional savings and lending groups, microfinance programmes or banks.
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  Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries

  World Bank, 2009

  Basic food commodities that are traded globally, including wheat, rice, maize, sugar and poultry, are important for small farmers and consumers in the developing world. Higher global food prices are a shock factor which can be directly correlated to increased livelihood vulnerability and poverty. In many poor countries, recent rises in the price of staple foods have created winners and losers.
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  The impact of rising food prices on disparate livelihoods groups in Kenya

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2008

  The dramatic increase in food prices globally has created challenges for achieving the Millennium Development Goals of reducing poverty and hunger especially in the Kenyan context given a number of factors aggravating the food crisis. This study provides a situation analysis and prognosis of markets and prices in Kenya and the wider region.
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  Agriculture, hunger and food security

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This article considers the linkages between agriculture, hunger and food security. It highlights that hunger and food insecurity remains at unacceptably high levels. To reduce this, it is important to understand how agriculture can most effectively contribute to food security and poverty alleviation. 
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  Recognising and addressing risk and vulnerability constraints to pro-poor agricultural growth

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  Risk and vulnerability (R and V) are becoming important in agricultural development due to an increase in the risk of agriculturalists and the social protection and production implications of reducing R and V through sectoral policies and poverty reduction processes. Agricultural development plans, however, rarely consider R and V.
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  Responding to HIV/AIDS in agriculture and related activities

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This article explores the challenges posed for agriculture by HIV and AIDS and considers a range of policy options. The impact of HIV and AIDS is first considered at a household level. HIV and AIDS has a high human cost and undermines household economies resulting in poverty and vulnerability.
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  Empowering women through livelihoods orientated agricultural service provision: a consideration of evidence from southern Africa

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008

  From the 1990s onwards, a shift towards participatory and bottom-up approaches to agricultural development has meant improved livelihoods for women. How have agricultural extension services been designed to incorporate an effective understanding of women’s livelihoods? What have been the gains? And what are the policy blind spots?
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  Rethinking agricultural policies for pro-poor growth

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper presents key findings from a study of pro-poor agricultural growth (PPAG). Over the past few decades changes such as those surrounding ecology, liberalisation and HIV and AIDS have increased the challenges facing the rural poor. The authors outline a framework for new responses to these challenges in the context of PPAG.
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  Promoting agriculture for social protection or social protection for agriculture: strategic policy and research issues

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006

  Developing pro-poor policies for agricultural development is important in countries with a large rural poor. In conjunction, there is also need to focus on social protection in order to address the risk and insecurity that the rural poor face. However, current policy fails to sufficiently link agricultural with social protection policies.

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