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  Development strategies and food and nutrition security in Africa: an assessment

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper evaluates international, regional and local strategies and policies in Africa, in relation to food and nutrition security. The paper argues that whilst numerous strategies have been implemented, Africa is still far from achieving food and nutrition security. The paper looks at the way strategies were implemented and why the results have been so variable and often lacking.
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  Case study on right to food: Brazil

  FAO Right to Food, 2003

  This document details the statement by Ambassador Flavio Perri, Brazilian Permanent Representative to FAO, issued in May 2003.
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  Human rights education associates study guide: food and water

  Human Rights Education Associates, 2004

  This study guide provides an overview of the main global food and water issues from a rights perspective.
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  Are rural women disadvantaged in asset ownership and business relations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper examines how, over the past 10 years, Kyrgyzstan has privatised most of its agricultural land and distributed it to individual households. These households either farm alone or join together and farm cooperatively. This research seeks to examine whether women have been adversely affected in the process of privatisation, asset ownership, or business development.
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  End hunger and malnutrition: the right to food; food sovereignty; food security

  Development Fund, Norway, 2003

  The documents in this booklet outline the policy and viewpoints of the Norwegian Development Fund on the right to food, food security and food sovereignty. The booklet includes two position papers endorsed by the Fund.
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  Implementing the right to adequate food: the outcome of six case studies

  Intergovernmental Working Group for the Elaboration of a Set of Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (RTFG), FAO, Rome, 2004

  This paper attempts to explore the question of how the human right to adequate food can be implemented at the country level.
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  Investing in water for food, ecosystems and livelihoods: blue paper

  2004

  This paper highlights the difficult choices that must be made as mounting pressure from the world’s growing population for more food could lead to greater water consumption and increasing environmental degradation. Globally, agriculture uses between 70 to 90% of developed water supplies and the livelihoods of 70% of the world’s poor depend largely on farming.
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  Water as a human right?

  IUCN Environmental Law Programme, The World Conservation Union, Bonn, 2004

  This paper seeks to articulate the issues, and set out the competing arguments and challenges, about the contribution that a human right to water could make to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The authors define a 'right to water' as the right to access sufficient water, with the term 'access' including economic accessibility, i.e.
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  State transfers to the poor and back: the case of the food for work programme in Andhra Pradesh

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people.
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  Governing the GM crop revolution: policy choices for developing countries

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  This paper introduces a system for classifying policy choices toward GM crops in the areas of intellectual property rights, food safety, biosafety, trade, and public research investment.

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