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    Social protection and women's empowerment

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, safety-net oriented public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries. As such, extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women’s economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done.
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    Research on rural women's economic empowerment and social protection The impacts of Rwanda's Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP)

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation s has started a policy-oriented research programme on Social Protection and Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment which aims to:
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    Public stockpiling of rice in Asia Pacific

    S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2016
    The public stockpiling of staple grains is one of the earliest strategies used to mitigate food supply instability.
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    Change in the making: progress reports on CGIAR gender research

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2015
    Agriculture in the developing world faces formidable challenges, which range from increased food demand to climate change impacts, and whose scope and complexity are evolving rapidly. The opportunities to address these challenges through collaborative research are also considerable, however, and provide grounds for optimism that renewed efforts in agricultural science can succeed.
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    Prospects of Blue Economy in the Indian Ocean

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The concept of Blue Economy is emerging as a new narrative on productive and sustainable engagement with the vast development opportunities that oceanic resources offer. The important sectors of Blue Economy are fisheries, sea-minerals including oil and gas, ports and shipping, marine tourism, marine biotechnology, deep-sea mining, and transport and logistics.
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    Science, technology, innovation in India and sccess, inclusion and equity: discourses, measurement and emerging challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in economic growth is well accepted. Tracing the debate on the role of science in Indian society in the pre-1947 India, the discourses and narratives on science, technology and society in India are mapped and their impact on policies is discussed.
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    2016 Global Food Policy Report: How We Feed the World is Unsustainable

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2016
    The annual IFPRI Global Food Policy Report provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events in the past year, and examines key challenges and opportunities for the coming year.
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    Hatchery-bred milkfish fry: a must for fisheries development

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    Milkfish is the national fish of the Philippines not only because it is a favorite viand of the population. The milkfish industry has also been contributing about 10 percent, on average, to total fisheries production for the past two decades (Israel 2000).
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    Defining the agricultural biotechnology policy of the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    Agricultural biotechnology offers a whole new range of possibilities to solving the problems that impinge on the productivity of the agriculture sector and its ability to feed the growing human population.
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    Empowering rural women through social protection

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015
    This paper reviews evidence on the most widely-used social protection schemes, assessing the extent of their current and potential impact on women’s economic empowerment and, where possible, the programme design characteristics that lead to these impacts.

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