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  Missungwi income and food security project: final report of the mid-term evaluation

  CARE International, 2004

  This report presents the findings of the mid-term review of the Missungwi Income and Food Security (MIFOSE) project, in Tanzania.
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  Integrated plant nutrition management in Mali: summary report 1998-2004

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005

  This document reports on a project implemented in Macina and Koro/Bankass in Mali which aimed to improve food security by building the competence of farmers and NGOs in soil fertility management. The project focused on four different technologies: microdosing of fertiliser, composting, zai method for water harvesting and urea treatment of straw.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and strategies for coping with less labour

  Development Fund, Norway, 2005

  This briefing note, based on studies done by UNAIDS and the UN Food and Agriculture organisation (FAO), looks at how HIV and AIDS impacts on agriculture, and contains recommendations for how to cope with the epidemic.The note states that increasingly, HIV and AIDS is having a major impact on nutrition, food security, agricultural production and rural societies throughout the affected countries.
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  Policy analysis for sustainable land management and food security in Ethiopia: a bioeconomic model with market imperfections

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This research in the highlands of Ethiopia shows how poverty and land degradation can be reduced in a resource-constrained agricultural area. It uses a bioeconomic model to address how alternative policy options can affect poverty and land degradation.
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  Gender, HIV/AIDS and food security: linkage and integration into development interventions

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2004

  This paper looks at the links between gender and HIV/AIDS and food security.
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  Livestock production: the twenty first century's food revolution

  Livestock Research for Rural Development, 2004

  This paper discusses the donor community's role in securing a poverty oriented commercialisation of livestock production in the developing world.The author notes that the global food market is undergoing major changes, especially in the developing world.
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  The role of social relations in farmer seed systems and reconstruction of agricultural production in a post-disaster situation

  LinKS Project: Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems for Food Security, FAO, 2004

  This article looks at seed flow in the post-flood situation experienced by Southern Mozambique in the year 2000. It looks at the local processes of seed acquisition based on the traditional values of help and solidarity. Too often seed relief programmes are based on the assumption that farmers themselves are not able to rehabilitate their seeds in times of crisis.
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  Fighting poverty through agriculture: Norwegian plan of action for agriculture in Norwegian development policy

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  Under this Norwegian strategy, development assistance for agricultural development will be scaled up considerably. The plan sets out 50 measures for promoting agricultural development in developing countries.It takes a holistic approach in which agricultural development is part of a broader strategy for private sector development that considers the entire production chain from field to table.
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  The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p
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  Farming assets in North Wälo: statistics, maps and impressions from a travel to North Wälo, October 2000

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002

  The report is based on information collected in the aftermath of the 1999 famine. It presents some basic information on North Wälo, as well as relevant impressions from the authors journey. Statistics from the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission show that all of North Wälo is exposed to famine, but the picture varies much from year to year.

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