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    Breaking the poverty/malnutrition cycle in Africa and the Middle East

    Organización Panamericana de Salud, 2009
    Poverty, hunger and malnutrition are coexisting in Africa and parts of the Middle East, creating inequalities that need to be addressed politically. This paper reviews the experiences with facing malnutrition in Sub-Saharan and North Africa and the Middle East. The authors indicate the following findings:
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    2011 Global Food Policy Report

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
    2011 saw significantly increased support of agriculture and food policy as tools for global poverty reduction. It also brought serious challenges, most notably in the form of food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, famine, unrest, and conflicts.
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    Hunger for learning: nutritional barriers to children’s education

    Child Poverty Action Group, 2011
    Do you know that in many parts of the world an ever-growing number of children turn up to school every day without having eaten breakfast? This paper focuses on New Zealand in particular, indicating that it is time to deal directly with childhood hunger in New Zealand, yet drawing some outstanding world-wide applicable recommendations.
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    Food Insecurity and Violent Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Addressing the Challenges

    World Food Programme, 2011
    This paper seeks to provide an overview of the link between food insecurity and violent conflict, addressing both traditional and emerging threats to security and political stability. It discusses the effects of food insecurity on several types of conflict, and the political, social, and demographic factors that may exacerbate these effects.
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    Increased fitness of rice plants to abiotic stress via habitat adapted symbiosis: a strategy for mitigating impacts of climate change

    PLoS ONE, 2011
    Climate change and catastrophic events have contributed to rice shortages in several regions due to decreased water availability and soil salinisation. Although not adapted to salt or drought stress, two commercial rice varieties achieved tolerance to these stresses by colonising them with Class 2 fungal endophytes isolated from plants growing across moisture and salinity gradients.
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    Factsheet: disability inclusion in drought and food crisis emergency response

    AlertNet, the Reuter Foundation, 2012
    Purpose: This factsheet provides base level information to practitioners for awareness raising, training, advocacy, project design and proposal writing. The information may be used and sent out widely, with reference to the Kenya Red Cross, The Association of the Physically Disabled of Kenya, CBM and Handicap International.
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    The Right to Food: Bangladesh Perspectives

    Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2010
    A large number of the people in Bangladesh are deprived of basic economic and social rights. The poor in Bangladesh do not even meet the minimum nutritional requirement to maintain a healthy body. Hence, poverty in Bangladesh, as elsewhere, is synonymous with hunger and malnutrition.
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    Agriculture development and food security: progress on the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit on Food Security

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2011
    Reducing the number and proportion of people who suffer from hunger and malnutrition is one of today’s most difficult challenges. Efforts have been made more difficult by higher and more volatile food and fuel prices, political conflict, and persistent underinvestment in agriculture, food and nutrition.
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    An assessment of research needs for food security in Bangladesh

    2007
    A key output planned under the National Food Policy Capacity Strengthening Programme (NFPCSP) is a Research Needs Digest (RND) that will serve as a reference for food security related research and as a basis for inviting research proposals under the NFPCSP research grant award initiative. The RND is the core of the present report which is the Assessment of Research Needs (ARN).
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    A review in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan : benchmarking for performance improvement in urban utilities

    World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2010
    Performance benchmarking is a powerful tool to make service providers more accountable, and to measure progress while improving performance. This review examines the introduction of performance benchmarking in over 30 urban water utilities across Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan since 2003, with the support of their respective governments and the Water and Sanitation Program - South Asia.

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