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    Climate change, rural livelihoods and agriculture (focus on Food security) in Asia-Pacific region

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2011
    Climate change, rural livelihoods and agriculture (focus on Food security) in Asia-Pacific region Document Type Working Paper Date Updated Not supplied Description Climate change is a major challenge for agriculture, food security and rural livelihoods for billions of people including the poor in the Asia-Pacific region.
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    What drives the global land rush?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    Recent increases in the level of agricultural commodity prices and the resulting demand for land has been accompanied by a rising interest in acquiring agricultural land by investors. This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.
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    Biodiversity for sustainable development: delivering results for Asia and the Pacific

    United Nations Development Programme, 2014
    This book focuses on biodiversity work in the Asia-Pacific region. It presents results, stories and photographs on innovations in monitoring endangered species, creating protected areas and managing them better, adapting to climate change, improving community livelihoods and energy efficiency, and diversifying crops.
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    Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among adult population of Isfahan city, Iran

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011
    Determination of vitamin D status in different age-groups in a community and in different climates of a country is necessary and has important implications for general health. The study is conducted to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among the adult population of Isfahan, a centrally located city in Iran.
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    The political economy of public sector employment in resource dependent countries

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper proposes a political economic explanation for the well documented difference in labour market institutions between high natural resource per capita countries and those that are natural resource dependent but whose populations are large.
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    Can’t afford to wait: why disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation plans in Asia are still failing millions of people

    Oxfam, 2014
    This briefing note calls for governments across Asia, backed by regional and global institutions and fair contributions from wealthy countries, to ramp up efforts to address the challenges of climate-related disasters and food crises which are holding back development across Asia.
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    The African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Group and the European Union (EU)

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2013
    This CCR seminar report addresses the potential for further strategic engagement between the 79-member ACP and the 28-member EU as the third five-year review of the Cotonou Agreement of 2000 on trade, aid, and political cooperation approaches in 2015, and as the end of the 20-year span of Cotonou in 2020 draws nearer.
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    Resource rents, political institutions and economic growth

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The curse associated with oil and other point-source rents is real, though contemporary literature suggests that it is not inevitable. This paper contributes to the empirical literature on oil and other point-source resource curse, but its particular contribution is embedded in the measurement of the impact of resource rents on economic growth.
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    An empirical growth model for major oil exporters

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. The paper uses quarterly data on nine major oil economies, six of which are current members of OPEC.
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    Prevalence of food insecurity among women in northern Jordan

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2012
    Food insecurity (not having sufficient quantities of good-quality foods) is inversely related to physical and mental health and directly related to poor dietary intake. The objectives of this research are to:

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