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  Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper reports on a study which addresses the challenges of child stunting in Ethiopia. At present, the report notes that stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at around 60 percent since the early 1980s and is among the highest in the world.
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  HIV/AIDS: what are the implications for humanitarian action? A literature review

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2003

  This report reviews the growing literature on HIV/AIDS and food security, examines where emergency relief should be situated within the wider response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and considers how humanitarian aid agencies need to take HIV/AIDS into account in the programming of emergency aid.The report considers the complex relationships between HIV/AIDS and food security and that in order to cap
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  World Disasters Report 2003

  International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2003

  In the light of the ‘war on terror’ and the changing landscape in which humanitarian organisations operate, this report asks what ethical dilemmas and moral trade-offs do humanitarians face in an increasingly politicised environment? It further asks if is aid really reaching those in greatest need? Do we even know where humanitarian needs are greatest?
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  Foreign assistance: sustained efforts needed to help Southern Africa recover from food crisis

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This paper documents research on the Southern African food crisis and assesses:factors that contributed to the crisishow well the populations' needs were metobstacles to the food aid effort, andthe challenges to recovery from the crisisThe main findings of the research are that:multiple factors including erratic weather, poorly functioning agricultural sectors ,
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  Nothing to fall back on: why Ethiopians are still short of food and cash

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This report assesses the reasons behind Ethiopia’s poverty and ways in which governments and donors can overcome it. Reasons for Ethiopia’s vulnerability to drought, acute malnutrition and starvation include:
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  The use of genetically modified crops in developing countries

  Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK, 2003

  This discussion paper is a follow-up to the 1999 Report, Genetically modified crops: the ethical and social issues. Contributed as part of the UK public consultation on GM it aims to assess the potential risks and benefits associated with the use of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries in relation to improving food security and economically valuable agriculture.
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  Biotechnology and food security in Africa: some policy and institutional considerations

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002

  This paper asks how biotechnology can affect food security in Africa. It advices caution in either promoting or opposing biotechnology for its own sake.The paper argues that:no technology by and of itself has internal momentum to create food security for any society of region. It is how the technology is applied and moulded by society that determines its usefulness.
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the implications for food security in Kenya

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper argues that for modern biotechnology research to have long term and wider positive social impact in Kenya, changes in policies and institutions must be implemented to ensure that it benefits the smallholder farmers who make up the majority of Kenya’s population.Critical issues examined include:biosafety food safetyloss of biodiversity IPRsThe report makes
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  A summary report from the Mexico Action Summit

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003

  Participants at the Mexico Action Summit explored how increased food production to feed the rural poor can be made compatible with natural resource management and biodiversity stewardship.
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  Gender and soil fertility in Uganda: a comparison of soil fertility indicators on women’s and men’s agricultural plots

  African Studies Quarterly, 2002

  The study was conducted to determine whether the gender difference in wealth and land allocation between male and female farmers in male-headed households is manifested in soil fertility indicators. It determined chemical fertility levels (fertility indicators) in the composite topsoil samples from 5 woman-owned plots and 5 man-owned plots in Ntanzi village, Uganda, on a Rhodic Ferralsol.

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