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  Food for assets - adapting programming to an HIV/AIDS context

  Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency, 2004

  This report from the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE) reviews a variety of Food for Assets (FFA) projects with the aim of identifying better practices in FFA programming. It examines the shift from Food for Work approaches, which focused on employment generation, to FFA, which emphasises community managed assets, including the development of human capital.
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  Agricultural price policy for developing countries

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1989

  This book, recently made available free online, focuses on agricultural price policy in the context of economic growth, specifically in relation to technological change.
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  Better technology, better plots or better farmers?: identifying changes in productivity and risk among Malagasy rice farmers

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  This paper highlights the difficulty in determining the extent to which observed agricultural output gains are due to a new technology itself, rather than to the skill of the farmer or the quality of the plot on which the new technology is tried.This paper introduces a method for attributing productivity and risk changes among new production methods, farmers and plots by controlling for farmer
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  Breaking new ground: livelihood choices, opportunities and tradeoffs for women and girls in rural Bangladesh

  IDL Group, 2004

  This report discusses the type and nature of changes that Bangladeshi rural women and girls perceive as the most important. The report, based on field analysis, finds that women and girls are participating in and in many cases driving changes in rural areas of Bangladesh.The report highlights the fact that significant changes are taking place in rural life throughout Bangladesh.
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  Girl child labour in agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation: a comparative analysis, cases of Ghana, Ecuador, Philippines (vol. 2)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study is a comparative analysis of gender sensitive assessments undertaken in the Ghana, Ecuador and the Philippines focusing on agriculture, domestic labour and prostitution. It analyses underlying factors of gender disparities in child labour and the consequences of those differences.
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  Land tenure and rural development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002

  The purpose of this guide is to provide support to those who are assessing and designing appropriate responses to food insecurity and rural development situations. This guide aims to show where and why land tenure is an important issue in food security and sustainable rural livelihoods.
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  The discourse of the GM food debate : how language choices affect public trust

  Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2004

  This report examines how the UK public responded to information about GM food technology. It assesses how new technology is communicated to the public and how it is assessed by them. In 2003 when the UK government sponsored a GM National Debate, consisting of an economic review, scientific review and public consultation.
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  Gender and the social and economic impact of drought on the residents of Turkana district in Kenya

  Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Ethiopia, 2003

  This study seeks to assess the adaptive strategies used by men and women from different social and economic backgrounds to cope with drought in the Turkana district of Kenya.Economic activity in this district is mainly characterised by pastoralist livestock production with a gendered division of activities.
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  Availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture

  RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2003

  The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.
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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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