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  The food security policy context in Brazil

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2011

  Accomplishments, such as the Zero Hunger strategy and the National Food and Nutritional Security Policy (PNSAN), show that Brazil has a strong food policy framework in place. Moreover, there have been related public action interventions geared to tackling the underlying causes of hunger, such as inequality, poverty and social exclusion.
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  A reference for designing food and nutrition security policies: the Brazilian Fome Zero strategy

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009

  Between 2000-2002 and 2004‐2006, the undernourished population of Brazil reduced from 17 million to 11.9 million thanks to an integrated effort whose centrepiece was the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) strategy, launched in January 2003 by the Lula Administration.
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  A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India

  World Bank, 2009

  Brazil, China and India have witnessed falling poverty during their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different reasons. This paper compares the experiences of these three countries and elaborates on what they could learn from each other.
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  The securitization of the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a norm: a contribution to the constructivist scholarship on the emergence and diffusion of international norms

  Scientific Electronic Library Online Brazil, 2007

  This article discusses the emergence of an innovative conceptualisation of security in the 1990s that proclaims the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is a threat to international peace and stability.
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  BRICs’ philosophies for development financing and their implications for LICs

  International Monetary Fund, 2012

  Flows of development financing from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to low income countries (LICs) have surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding Russia) view their financing as primarily based on the principles of South-South cooperation, focusing on mutual benefits without attachment of policy conditionality.
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  Brazil as a development actor: South-South cooperation and the IBSA initiative

  Fride, 2008

  This report looks at Brazil as a development partner, its external perception as an important and crucial country for regional stability, and projection of its global identity as a ‘voice’ for the developing world in crucial international debates.
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  Brazil and China: South-South partnership or North-South competition?

  Brookings Institution, 2011

  This paper focuses on Brazil-China relations and sheds some light on the possibilities and limits of meaningful coalitions amongst emerging countries.
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  The global South and the international politics of climate change. Proceedings report of the international workshop: negotiating Africa and the global South’s interests on climate change

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2011

  This proceedings report captures the first half of the discussion at COP17 hosted in Durban, South Africa, in 2011 where the role of rising powers within the international climate change negotiations was discussed. Panellists in this report have been drawn from Brazil, India, China and South Africa (BASIC countries) to share their expertise on these multidimensional country positions.
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  Brazil low-carbon country case study

  World Bank, 2010

  Brazil’s commitment to combat climate change had already begun when the country hosted the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio Earth Summit, in June 1992.
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  Rising powers, reforming challenges: negotiating agriculture in the WTO Doha Round from a Brazilian perspective

  2011

  This article examines the history of the WTO Doha Round agriculture negotiations from 2001 to 2011 in light of the shifting global balance of economic power. It shows that the rise of China, Brazil and India, among other developing countries, had an impact on the negotiations and affected the negotiating structure, processes and decision-making.

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