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    The challenge of hunger and malnutrition

    Copenhagen Consensus, 2009
    Undernutrition leads to increased mortality and morbidity which lead to loss of economic output and increased spending on health. Therefore, reducing undernutrition is one of the Millennium Goals, and is also a key factor underpinning several others.
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    What works for women: proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security

    2012
    This briefing paper is the result of a collaboration between nine different agencies, sharing lessons learned from working with women smallholders in order to close the gender gap in agriculture.
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    The Gender Implications of Large-Scale Land Deals

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
    Large-scale land deals by investors in developing countries are generating considerable attention. However key stakeholders have so far paid little attention to a dimension of these deals essential to truly understanding their impact: gender.
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    The food crises and political instability in North Africa and the Middle East

    New England Complex Systems Institute, 2011
    It is noticeable that despite the many possible contributing factors, the timing of violent protests in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011 as well as earlier riots in 2008 coincides with large peaks in global food prices. This paper emphasises that riots and food prices are closely linked, identifying a specific food price threshold above which protests become likely.
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    Food aid or food sovereignty?: ending world hunger in our time

    The Oakland Institute, 2005
    Food aid has been ‘cheap’ aid, expected to serve domestic interests and to fight hunger at the same time. This paper argues that apart from specific disaster situations, this does not work. The author claims that food aid participates in the rise of hunger while it helps the implementation of adverse policies. The paper underlines that:
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    Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
    This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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    Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)

    The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of deep concern for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children.
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    Working to break the cycle of hunger and poverty

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2008
    No country has managed a rapid rise from poverty without increasing agricultural productivity. This paper notes that agricultural productivity in many parts of the developing world is stagnant with small-scale impoverished farmers often lacking access to appropriate technologies, efficient farming practices, and links to markets.
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    Food prices, nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals

    World Bank, 2012
    This report highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices. It notes that in 2007-2008 and again in 2011, spikes in food prices prevented the achievement of poverty eradication policies affecting especially the urban poor and the health of children.
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    Climate change and hunger: responding to the challenge

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge.

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