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    Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition

    2012
    Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’. Yet no clear consensus has so far emerged concerning many basic design choices and implementation of social protection policies and programs.
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    Climate change and agriculture: can market governance mechanisms reduce emissions from the food system fairly and effectively?

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
    Agriculture accounts for 30 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. How agriculture is practised, therefore, has significant potential for mitigating climate change, providing food security and improving the livelihoods of food producers worldwide.
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    Extreme weather events and crop price spikes in a changing climate: illustrative global simulation scenarios

    Oxfam, 2012
    Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes. Various impact studies have considered the effects of projected long-run trends in temperature, precipitation and carbon dioxide concentrations caused by climate change on global food production and prices.
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    Facts on water harvesting

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
    Lack of soil fertility and water stress are two main factors which limit agricultural production critical to food security. Rainfed agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change, causing rainfall to be more scarce and erratic. Harvesting of rain and runoff water, and effective management of water are ancient concerns of populations whose expertise in this area is important.
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    Facts on Ecofarm

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012
    The Sahel countries face a range of problems from low food insecurity to environmental problems like climate change and soil degradation.
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    DCG Strategy 2012-2016

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2011
    The Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) strategy for the period 2012-2016 presents DCG's strategic framework, its values and working principles, target groups, overall goal, and priority themes for the up-coming strategic period.  The Drylands Coordination Group is a network for capacity building through exchange of practical experience and appropriate knowledge on food security in the drylands
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    Regional agricultural policy: Review and prioritisation of policy issues and intervention areas for consideration under the SADC Regional Agricultural Policy

    Southern African Development Community, 2012
    This series of 5 policy studies has been undertaken to guide the formulation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Agricultural Policy (RAP).
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    Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots

    New England Complex Systems Institute, 2012
    Yemen is considered a global terrorist base for Al-Qaeda and violence is threatening social order. The socio-economic origins of violence have changed. Prior to 2008, violence can be attributed to inter-group conflict between distinct ethnic and religious groups. Starting in 2008, increasing global food prices triggered a new wave of violence that spread to the endemically poor southern region.
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    Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 (43rd edition)

    Asian Development Bank, 2012
    This publication includes the latest available economic, financial, social and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to present the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the economies of Asia and the Pacific to a wide audience. Part I of this issue is a special chapter on green urbanisation in Asia.
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    Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from east Africa

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
    Smallholder farmers across east Africa have started to embrace climate-resilient farming approaches and technologies, according to this study by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) research programme.

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