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  "Why wait until the next food crisis?" Improving food reserves strategies in East Africa

  Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014

  ACORD's research on the importance of African countries holding food reserves for promoting food security and price stability. This report analyses the food reserves policies of three countries in East Africa – Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – showing how these can, indeed must, be improved to address hunger. 
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  Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua

  2015

  Productive resources are essential to the livelihoods and food security of the world’s rural poor. Gender-equal ownership of resources is considered key to increasing agricultural productivity, equity, and food security. However, there has not been much research about local understandings of ownership particularly in the Global South.
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  Impacts of large-scale investments in agriculture on water resources, ecosystems and livelihoods; and development of policy options for decision makers

  GRID Arendal, 2014

  The goal of this project  is to analyze the nature and extent of impacts of foreign direct investments (FDI) in agriculture in Africa.
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  Synthesis report on current and emerging youth policies and initiatives with links to agriculture: the case of Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2012

  Sub–Saharan African (SSA) countries have a unique population profile, with 44 percent of its population being under the age of 15, making it the youngest region of the world.
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  Instituting REDD+: An analysis of the processes and outcomes of two pilot projects in Brazil and Tanzania

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  REDD readiness is about developing national strategies for REDD+ including the necessary systems to ensure reduced DD, encompassing systems for monitoring/carbon accounting and distribution of international compensations. Establishing REDD+ is a process of change not least regarding actions on the ground.
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  The Kilosa District REDD+ pilot project, Tanzania: A socioeconomic baseline study

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  Tanzania has decided to embark upon a national REDD programme to meet its obligations of managing its forests sustainably while responding to poverty reduction initiatives. As part of the REDD Readiness phase, nine pilot projects are being carried out in different areas of the country to draw lessons to assist in structuring a successful REDD+ in the future.
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  The challenge of establishing REDD+ on the ground: Insights from 23 subnational initiatives in six countries

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2014

  Since 2007, it has been hoped that REDD+ would deliver on the 3E+ criteria (effectiveness, efficiency, equity, social and environmental co‑benefits) for strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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  Can Market-Based Approaches to Technology Development and Dissemination Benefit Women Smallholder Farmers? A Qualitative Assessment of Gender Dynamics in the Ownership, Purchase, and use of Irrigation Pumps in Kenya and Tanzania

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  Rural household economies dependent on rainfed agriculture are increasingly turning to irrigation technology solutions to reduce the effects of weather variability and guard against inconsistent and low crop output.
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  Levelling the field: improving opportunities for women farmers in Africa

  World Bank, 2014

  While agriculture across sub-Saharan Africa forms the backbone of many nations' economies, women are largely locked out of land ownership, access to credit and productive farm inputs, as well as support from extension services.
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  Opportunities for support to System of Rice Intensification in Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  There is a great potential for increasing the production of rice in Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi. Many of the constraints on rice production are similar for the three countries. Common problems are low quality of seeds, lack of access to inputs, poorly functioning irrigation schemes, poor soil fertility management, weed infestation, low yields and low technical capacity.

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