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  Food and nutrition security, health and gender equality: partnerships for climate-resilient sustainable development

  Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, 2012

  This policy brief provides key recommendations with a view to RIO+20 and the post 2015 MDG agenda. It argues that food and nutrition security, climate change, health, gender equality and environmental degradation are closely interlinked, requiring integrated strategies. Increasing women's engagement, empowerment and leadership can help counter these challenges.
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  Gender, IFIs and the global food crisis case study: Zambia

  Gender Action, 2012

  With 63% of Zambians living on less than $1.25 per day, poverty and food security are widespread. This case study argues that International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have contributed to this food insecurity due to neoliberal structural adjustment programmes in the late 1980's.
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  Gender resource portal of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012

  The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) gender resource portal includes many resources on gender, food and nutrition security. It contains a number of links to publications on gender and agricultural growth and technologies; childcare and work; education; health and nutrition; household resource allocation; natural resource management; property rights; and collective action.
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  Creating gender-responsive agricultural development programs: an orientation document

  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012

  This document provides an overview of gender issues in agricultural development, and describes the kind of gender-responsive programmes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking to fund. Some of the topics it highlights are:
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  Justice and sustainability: resistance and innovation in a transnational land deal in Ghana

  World Bank, 2012

  This paper examines the case of a Nordic appropriation of land through a lease agreement with chiefs in southern Ghana, initially for biofuel production and then for large-scale, mechanized food production.The production shift triggered resistance over loss of land and environmental impact, and threatened to destabilize the project.This enticed the company to innovate through improving cooperat
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  Farmers’ Rights Project: Furthering agrobiodiversity as a means of poverty alleviation

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012

  Farmers’ rights related to crop genetic resources are an essential precondition for maintaining crop genetic diversity, which is the basis of all food and agriculture production around the globe. Genetic diversity provides the pool in which plant traits can be found that meet the challenges of crop pests and diseases, of marginal soils, and – not least – of changing climate conditions.
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  Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa: an exploration into alternative investment options

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012

  This discussion paper seeks to explore alternative investment options with the aim of enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa. Climate change, conflict, drought and increasing populations are leading many to pessimistic conclusions regarding the future viability of pastoral farming, arguing that these livelihoods should be sedentarised and diversified.
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  Norway & Tanzania: partners in development - booklet from Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania

  2012

  Norway and Tanzania have been partners for 50 years. Political commitment, social, cultural, academic and commercial interactions have created links and relations that go far beyond the traditional development cooperation.
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  The poverty and welfare impacts of climate change quantifying the effects, identifying the adaptation strategies

  World Bank, 2012

  Although poverty remains widespread in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, substantial progress has been made especially in the past three decades. Nevertheless, this report stresses that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, which will directly affect poor people's livelihood assets including health, access to water and other natural resources, homes and infrastructure.
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  2012 Global Hunger Index. The challenge of hunger: Ensuring sustainable food security under land, water, and energy stresses

  2012

  The 2012 GHI report focuses particularly on the issue of how to ensure sustainable food security under conditions of water, land, and energy stress.

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