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  Biocharred pathways to sustainability? Triple wins, livelihoods and the politics of technological promise

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2010

  Considerable hype and debate are currently surrounding the potential of biochar (charcoal created through the burning of biomass in low oxygen environments) in climate change mitigation and agriculture. This report attempts to summarise the arguments, assumptions and interests in the biochar debate and offer reflections on its prospects.
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  Monthly Economic Update: Food Prices and Inflation Trajectory

  Unnayan Onneshan, 2012

  Bangladesh has been experiencing a rising trend of food inflation in recent months at the backdrop of global hike of food grain prices. The food price rises created a range of macro-vulnerabilities in the country. One aspect is the impact on domestic food inflation and overall inflation. This rising food inflation has a severe impact over the marginalized people.
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  Food security, climate change and territorial dynamics in Central America

  Programa Salvadoreño de investigación sobre desarrollo y medio mmbiente, 2011

  Central America has been identified as one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the world. Changes in rainfall and seasonal patterns threaten the production of basic grains, and pose threats to provisioning ecosystem services (services that support food, water, etc.) and biodiversity, all of which are critical for resilient food production systems.
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  Migration and living conditions in urban slums: implications for food security

  Unnayan Onneshan, 2012

  Migration to urban areas is a regular phenomenon but climate induced displacement forced to migrate to cities over the recent years is a matter of concern. Increased frequency and severity of natural disasters by climate change over the past recent years are not only displacing people physically but also exposing to enhanced poverty by threatening their livelihoods temporarily and permanently.
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  Action research on the development of appropriate technology for mud crab (Scylla olivacea) culture through active participation of poor women in the impact zone of the Sundarban mangrove forest, Bangladesh

  Community Advancement And Research Initiatives, Bangladesh, 2012

  An action research on the development of appropriate technology for mud crab (Scylla olivacea) culture through active participation of six poor women was carried out in Mithakhali, Mongla, Bagerhat from August 2003 to July, 2004.
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  Assuring Food Security in Developing Countries under the Challenges of Climate Change: Key Trade and Development Issues of a Fundamental Transformation of Agriculture

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2011

  For a large number of developing countries, agriculture remains the single most important sector. Climate change has the potential to damage irreversibly the natural resource base on which agriculture depends, with grave consequences for food security.
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  Impact of Increasing Landlessness on Access to Food: Experience of Small and Marginal Farmers in Rural Bangladesh

  Unnayan Onneshan, 2009

  In Bangladesh, food insecurity remains a reality for millions, including farmers and landless labourers. Due to increasing population, unjust market intervention, poor governance, medium and small farmers are losing their productive land and becoming landless gradually.
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  Assessment of the Budget FY11 for the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management

  2011

  As a part of series of seminars for the Members of the Parliament, BIDS, with the support of PROGATI/USAID, organized the second seminar titled "Assessment of the Budget FY11 for the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management" on May 7, 2011 at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel, Dhaka.
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  Rice Technologies: Strategic Choices and Policy Options

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009

  This Policy Brief discusses the issues of maintaining national food self-sufficiency in Bangladesh in the face of emerging challenges in the agriculture sector. It has been funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
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  Food security and economic development in the Middle East and North Africa: current state and future perspectives

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2010

  A rapidly changing world combined with mounting domestic challenges is prompting many Middle East and North African (MENA) countries to initiate economic and social reforms. This paper uses the concept of food security to identify the region’s challenges along four major themes: economic growth and incomes, trade and infrastructure, agriculture and water, and health and education.

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