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    Why women farmers are left out of the programs. Lessons learned. Evaluation of Norway's bilateral agricultural support to food security

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013
    Norway’s Bilateral Agricultural Support to Food Security 2005-2011 was reviewed in 2012-2013. This Lessons Learned document was prepared as a continuation of that review. Its purpose is to identify lessons learned regarding women’s rights and gender1 issues in the projects/programmes2 reviewed, in order to achieve more gender equality in Norwegian-funded agricultural programmes.
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    Smallholders, food security, and the environment

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2013
    This report aims to improve understanding among policymakers and practitioners – together with those influencing and making decisions in relevant business sectors – of the relationships between smallholders, food security and the environment.
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    Effects of climate change on poultry production in Ondo State, Nigeria

    2013
    Poultry plays a vital economic, nutritional and socio-cultural role in the livelihood of rural households in many developing countries. This study assessed the effects of climate change on poultry production in Ondo State, Nigeria. 83 poultry farmers were interviewed to elicit relevant information and descriptive statistics. Inferential statistical tools were used for data analysis.
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    Statistical Yearbook of the Food And Agricultural Organization for the United Nations - FAO_2013_stats_yrbook.pdf

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013
    The 2013 edition of FAO's Statistical Yearbook sheds new light on agriculture's contribution to global warming, trends in hunger and malnutrition and the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Analysis of climate change impacts on coffee, cocoa and basic grains value chains in northern Honduras

    Instituto de Estudios del Hambre (Institute of Hunger Studies), 2013
    This study examines, applying future climate local scenarios, climate change impacts in northern Honduras and makes recommendations to strengthen the resilience of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) ‘Northern Horizons’ project beneficiaries in the coffee, cocoa, maize and bean value chains.
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    A critical analysis of climate change factors and its projected future values in Delta state, Nigeria

    Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2013
    This study analyses climate change factors (temperature and rainfall) and their projected future values in the Delta state, Nigeria. A variety of crops such as maize, yam and cassava produced in Delta state depend on rainfall for their optimum performance. Therefore, decreasing and/or irregular rainfall patterns threaten food security in the state.

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