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  Urban poverty in Bangladesh: the perspective of the Nutritional Surveillance Project

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  How can the rising numbers of people living in extreme poverty in the slums of towns and cities in Bangladesh they be raised from poverty?
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  Urban challenges to food and nutrition security

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This research centre holds information from IFPRI's research program Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security.
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  Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000

  This document reports on the DFID/NRI/FRI workshop on food security.
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  Working women in an urban setting: traders, vendors, and food security in Accra

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999

  Despite lower incomes and additional demands on their time as housewives and mothers, female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households.
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  Wages of war, wages of peace: food prices and unskilled labour pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2002

  This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the period 1996-2002, based on information systematically collected weekly by WFP in all major cities (Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Heart, Mazar-e-Sharif and Faizabad). The main conclusion of the study are: Large fluctuations have been registered in food prices.
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  Assessing urban food security: adjusting the FEWS rural vulnerability assessment framework to urban environments

  Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2000

  This paper aims to sensitize FEWS field staff to urban food security issues and to build their capacity to guide, design, and implement urban vulnerability assessments (VAs) and food security monitoring.
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  Relief through development: maize market liberalisation in urban Kenya (MSU)

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
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  Urban Agriculture in Drylands: articles from Arid Lands Newsletter

  Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1997

  Series of articles on importance of urban agriculture in areas subject to desertification.
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  Urban maize meal consumption patterns: strategies for improving food access for vulnerable urban households in Kenya

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1995

  This report examines maize consumption patterns in response to policy changes in Kenya and the implications for urban food security. It is based on empirical evidence from a household survey. The researchers’ five conclusions challenge conventional assumptions about fixed consumer tastes and preferences in relation to agriculture policy.
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  Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  Substantial abstract of a report studying the impact of urban life on the livelihoods, food security, and nutritional status of the poor in Accra. Examines food consumption and employment and income, as well as hygiene practices, sanitation conditions, and practices related to the care and feeding of children to determine their contributions to malnutrition.

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