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    Rethinking Food Security Strategy: Self-sufficiency or Self-reliance

    Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    This Policy Brief discusses whether Bangladesh should continue to pursue a national food security strategy based on self-reliance or return to its earlier policy of food self-sufficiency through domestic production.
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    Rethinking Food Security Strategy: Self-sufficiency or Self-reliance

    2009
    This Policy Brief discusses whether Bangladesh should continue to pursue a national food security strategy based on self-reliance or return to its earlier policy of food self-sufficiency through domestic production.
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    Implications for Human Development - Impacts of Food Price Volatility on Nutrition and Schooling

    Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    The paper highlights the impacts of the 2007/08 food price inflation on nutrition and on school attendance. It draws on the results of studies commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Even at times of average food prices, extremely poor and food insecure families suffer malnutrition and difficulties in school.
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    The state of food insecurity in the world: addressing food insecurity in protracted crises

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
    The number of undernourished people in the world remains unacceptably high at near the one billion mark despite a decline in 2010 for the first time since 1995. This edition of “The State of Food Insecurity in the World” focuses on people living in a group of countries in which the incidence of hunger is particularly high and persistent.
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    Hunger pains: Pakistan’s food insecurity

    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010
    The challenges of bringing better food security to Pakistan are immense. This collection of essays provides a broad overview of food security in Pakistan, with emphasis on the agricultural sector.
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    African Agricultural R&D in the New Millennium: Progress for Some, Challenges for Many

    2011
    Investment in agricultural research and development (R&D) in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by more than 20 percent from 2001-08 but most of this growth occurred in only a few countries, principally Nigeria. Spending in most of the region stagnated or fell. Even where funding increased, much of the money went to boost low salaries and rehabilitate infrastructure after years of neglect.
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    Tackling chronic poverty: The policy implications of research on chronic poverty and poverty dynamics

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
    The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) was founded in 2000 to challenge, through research, the apparent omission of almost a billion people from the 2015 poverty target of the Millennium Development Goals. The first decade of the 21st century has illustrated the power of economic growth and human development to bring large numbers out of poverty.
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    An evaluation of progress toward the Millennium Development Goal one hunger target: a country-level, food and nutrition security perspective

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2010
    One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015. This paper warns that many countries remain far from reaching this target, and much of the progress made has been eroded by the recent global food price and economic crises.
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    Living on a Spike

    Oxfam, 2011
    The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 2010 and into early 2011, Oxfam and research partners from the Institute of Development Studies spoke to people effected in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, and Zambia.
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    Human Rights Impact Assessment in the Context of Biofuels: Addressing the Human Right to Food and the Human Right to Water

    2010
    The original mandate of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights said that he should „develop materials and methodologies for undertaking human rights impact assessments.‟ Since then, tools for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) have developed by different actors. This article reviews two such tools, both of which are up for revision in 2010.

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