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    The links between poverty and the environment in Malawi

    Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 2009
    Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. This paper discusses competition for agricultural land and investigates why the poor are closely associated with forests. Furthermore, the paper examines the effects of changes in crop land use on changes in forest cover.
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    Climate change: impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for food security and estimate the investment required to offset the negative effects on human wellbeing.
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    Guidelines for rapid appraisals of agrifood chain performance in developing countries

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    This paper gives guidelines and presents a methodological strategy for the analysis of agrifood value chains. The guideline aims to provide information on the conceptual fundamentals of chain analyses.The guideline provides a few steps to chain analysis: the components of the agrifood chain, the geographical coverage and the time frame are considered
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    The state of food insecurity in the World 2009

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    This is the tenth progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS). It highlights that the food crisis has twinned with the economic crisis increasing the number of hungry people.
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    The international food system and the climate crisis

    GRAIN, 2009
    This article is about the inability of the global food system to fulfill its most basic function of feeding people while agribusiness corporations that control the food chain are amassing billions of dollars in profits. The world’s governments and international agencies are pushing for more agribusiness, more industrial agriculture and more globalisation, despite calls for change.
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    Promoting food security in Lesotho: issues and options

    2009
    Food insecurity remains a major challenge for Lesotho. This report offers a brief review of strategic issues and options in support for food security there. The paper shows that the nature of the challenge in Lesotho is evolving as livelihoods change.
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    Dead birds or shattered hopes? - A study of the impact of Bird Flu on poor people's poultry related livelihoods in West Bengal

    South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme, 2009
    This report outlines the impact of bird flu on poor people’s livelihoods in West Bengal, India. Based on a survey of about 180 rural households raising ‘Kuroilers’ (a dual purpose bird introduced by Keggfarms Pvt.
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    Local markets, local varieties: rising food prices and small farmers' access to seed

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report provides case-specific responses to key seed policy issues based on the relationship between seed markets and high food prices, which were discussed at the project findings meeting at FAO in May 2008. The paper answers key questions in the country context for India, Kenya, and Mali including whether high food prices will mean higher seed prices and seed insecurity for poor farmers.
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    Climate change and the threat to African food security

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Sub-Saharan Africa is currently the most food-insecure region in the world. Climate change could aggravate the situation further unless adequate measures are put in place.
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    Food crisis and the global land grab

    This website contains news and commentary about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit.

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