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    Focusing on women works: research on improving micronutrient status through food-based interventions

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 1999
    Synthesis of five studies, undertaken in Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand, included intervention trails and measurement of impacts.The results suggest that it is possible to increase the effectiveness of micronutrient interventions (including Vitamin A, iron, iodine) by increasing women’s active participation in problem solving and by increasing their access to such key resources
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    Special report on land use, land use change and forestry: summary for policymakers [climate change]

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2000
    Reviews the current understanding of the relationship between land use (especially forestry), carbon dioxide emissions and the Kyoto Protocol agreementsTopics cover: how the global carbon cycle operates, and how this relates to forestry activitiesaccounting rulescomparison of the usefulness of models and ground-based assessments of changes in carbon stocksshort term prospect
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    The effectiveness of decentralization in Hungary and Slovakia

    International Monetary Fund, 2000
    This paper contrasts decentralization in Hungary, one of the most decentralized countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and in Slovakia, one of the least decentralized, during the decade of transition from socialism to market.
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    Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

    DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000
    While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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    Food reserves in Mozambique?

    European Food Security Network / Réseau Européen de Sécurité Alimentaire, 1999
    Looks at how emergency food reserves might be considered within the Mozambican Government's Food Security and Nutrition Strategy (ESAN).
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    Mozambique: options to support grain marketing credit

    1999
    As part of its Food Security Programme in Mozambique the European Commission (EC) has programmed a marketing credit facility which is intended to facilitate the marketing of agricultural produce.
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    Good practices in drylands management

    Dryland Program, World Bank, 1999
    The objectives of this study are to analyze and synthesize the experience of the World Bank and other agencies in dryland management, with special emphasis on Africa.Recommendations are provided on "good policies and practices" in drylands management, which can support actions to fulfil obligations arising from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) for member countries a
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    Approaches to impact evaluation (assessment) in agricultural information management: a selective review of the issues, the relevant literature and some illustrative case studies

    Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2000
    This selective review seeks to engender wider knowledge, acceptance and application of evaluation in the field of agricultural information management by showing how it has been approached in other disciplines, in agricultural research, and most recently in information science and management, with some key examples relating to information management in developing countries.To give some indicatio
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    Community-level interventions against HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2000
    This paper deliberately avoids dwelling on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, its impact on women, families, communities and on development. The author chooses rather to focus on some salient issues pertaining to Community Level Health Interventions Against HIV/AIDS from a Gender Perspective.The paper outlines policy recommendations and potential interventions in the short/medium and long-term.
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    Population and the environment: the global challenge

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2000
    As the century begins, natural resources are under increasing pressure, threatening public health and development. Water shortages, soil exhaustion, loss of forests, air and water pollution, and degradation of coastlines afflict many areas.

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