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    Squeezed: life in a time of food price volatility, year 1 results

    Oxfam, 2013
    Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rapidly rise and fall, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And what can be done to improve life in a time of food price volatility?
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    Food security and nutrition: the role of forests

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2013
    With a growing global population, much of the current discourse on food security is focussed on increasing agricultural production. However, studies suggest that food insecurity is not caused by lack of food production, but by inadequate distribution, a lack of purchasing power and other non-productive causes.
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    Making Sense of Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
    Full title: Making Sense of Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: Creating Gender-Responsive Climate Adaptation Policy Christine Okali and Lars Otto NaessMay 2013
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    Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future

    Oxfam, 2013
    In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid agencies were determined not to make the same mistakes again.
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    Evaluation of Norway’s Bilateral Agricultural Support to Food Security

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013
    The purpose of this evaluation was “to assess to what extent Norwegian funds for agriculture have contributed to food security, with a view to get recommendations for future support”. The period under evaluation was 2005-2011. The evaluation focused on four aspects (clusters): 1. Contribution to food security. 2. Monitoring, evaluation and documentation. 3. Sustainability and scaling-up. 4.
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    Inequality watch

    Norwegian People's Aid, 2012
    This report is a contribution to the development policy debate. It shows that it is a too narrow approach to limit the targets of development policy to growth or to lifting a population above an artificial poverty line. A clear prioritization of power and resources is needed. The report gives a thorough analysis of inequality and development in Bolivia, El Salvador, South Africa, and Mozambique.
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    Links between Tenure Security and Food Security: Evidence from Ethiopia

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
    The study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed to increased food availability and thus food security in this food-deficit region.
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    Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies

    HelpAge International, 2013
    In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributions and difficulties transporting the food.
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    Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?"
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    Training guide: gender and climate change research in agriculture and food security for development

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
    It has been estimated that over 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty, if women were granted equal access to and control of resources. However, climate change and gender have yet to be implemented into agricultural development in an effective way.

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