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    Social protection for low capacity households in Zambia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This paper highlights the importance of social protection as a poverty alleviation strategy for rural households in Zambia. The paper presents a framework based on– protection, preven­tion, and promotion.
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    How market institutions shape urban food supply in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    As the urban share of Africa’s population increases, it is crucial to understand how food supply in cities is shaped by market institutions. This topic has received little attention from policymakers and researchers, however, despite the implications it has for people’s livelihoods and poverty.
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    Ethnicity, voter alignment and political party affiliation – an African case: Zambia

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2007
    This paper attempts to identify factors which might explain partisan alignment and party affiliation in competitive African multi-party regimes. Based on an opinion survey in Zambia, the paper challenges the general belief that ethnicity provides the social cleavage for voting behaviour and party affiliation in Africa.
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    The impact of social cash transfers on children

    Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme, 2007
    This paper analyses the degree to which social cash transfer schemes that do not explicitly target HIV and AIDS affected persons or households reach HIV and AIDS affected households. By comparing different schemes in Zambia, Malawi and South Africa, the study identifies the main factors that determine both the share of HIV and AIDS affected households reached, and the impact achieved.
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    Getting started! running a junior farmer field and life school: empowering orphans and vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    This training manual from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) details how to set up and run a Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) programme. The programmes are designed to empower orphans and other vulnerable children aged 12 to 18 years who live in communities where HIV/AIDS has had a strong impact on food security.
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    Land policy options for development and poverty reduction - civil society views for pro-poor land policies and laws in Zambia

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2008
    This paper points out the key challenges for land administration and management in Zambia that have been identified by civil society actors:
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    What will higher global food prices mean for poor consumers and small farmers in southern Africa?

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    Rising food prices present a very real threat to ongoing efforts to combat poverty and hunger in southern Africa. However, this brief produced by the Regional Hunger & Vulnerability Programme (RHVP), argues that this is not necessarily the full picture.
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    Future prospects for African sugar: sweet or sour?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2007
    With the expected reforms in the EU sugar regime:
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    Rural development professionals face HIV and AIDS challenges

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    HIV and AIDS have hit rural livelihoods hard. How has the pandemic changed the work of rural development professionals? What knowledge, skills and attitudes do they need to meet the new challenges? Researchers from Wageningen University in The Netherlands find some answers to these questions.
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    Lost opportunities in HIV prevention: programmes miss places where exposures are highest

    BioMed Central, 2008
    This paper published in BMC public health examines whether efforts at HIV prevention that focus on high risk places are more effective and less stigmatising than those targeting high risk groups. It assesses risk behaviour patterns, current preventive interventions and apparent gaps in places where the risk of HIV transmission is high and in communities with high HIV prevalence.

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