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  The distribution of relief seed and fertilizer in Zimbabwe: lessons derived from the 2003/04 season

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This analysis summarises the results of three major farm surveys designed to assess the distribution of seed and fertiliser inputs following the 2002/03 season drought in Zimbabwe.
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  South Bulletin: Hunger

  South Centre, 2005

  This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on Hunger, with contributions from various Southern leaders including speeches from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe as well as other stakeholders.Hunger is an emergency: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva argues that hunger needs to be raised as a polit
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  Vocational education and training in Tanzania and Zimbabwe in the context of economic reform

  Department for International Development, UK, 1999

  This report summarises the main findings of two studies on Vocational Education and Training (VET) provision since the mid-late 1980s in Tanzania and Zimbabwe.The research project covered all types of post-secondary VET provision including pre-employment occupational training mainly targeted at secondary school leavers and job-related training for those already employed.
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  Remittances and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The government of Zimbabwe’s policy on international migrants has recently focused on the potential developmental effects of the remittances. It has established the ‘Home Link’ scheme which aims to channel these. However, low trust from the migrants and low official exchange rates are major obstacles to this.
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  Achieving food security in southern Africa: policy issues and options

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper synthesises the findings to date of ODI’s Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa.
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  id21 viewpoint - AUVEC: using the virtual world to achieve real world gains in livestock care

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The importance of livestock to poor people is as obvious as the humps on a camel. However, the diseases that affect animals and their keepers do not get the attention they need.
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  Community based monitoring and research on food security and social welfare

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This paper explores the contributions of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for food security in Zimbabwe.The paper argues that work on food security and economic and social wellbeing at the community level in Zimbabwe needs to be framed within deeper structural causes of poverty and deepening social deficits, even while shorter term mitigatory responses are implemented.
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  Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?
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  Magnesium sulphate for eclampsia - unavailable in Mozambique and Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Despite the existence of a low cost effective treatment - magnesium sulphate - to prevent and treat eclampsia, over 63,000 women die from the condition each year in low and middle income countries. Governments, procurement agencies and drug companies must work to improve systems for registering, purchasing and distributing essential drugs.
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  Social protection mechanisms in southern Africa

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006

  Social protection is a relatively new concept in southern Africa. Regular, predictable and guaranteed transfers to the vulnerable in most countries have yet to be integrated into existing policies safeguarding lives following livelihood shocks such as drought and conflict.

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