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    Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security

    International Development Research Centre, 2009
    This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the book examines the contribution of UA and city farming to livelihoods and food security.
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    Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries

    World Bank, 2009
    Basic food commodities that are traded globally, including wheat, rice, maize, sugar and poultry, are important for small farmers and consumers in the developing world. Higher global food prices are a shock factor which can be directly correlated to increased livelihood vulnerability and poverty. In many poor countries, recent rises in the price of staple foods have created winners and losers.
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    The impact of rising food prices on disparate livelihoods groups in Kenya

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2008
    The dramatic increase in food prices globally has created challenges for achieving the Millennium Development Goals of reducing poverty and hunger especially in the Kenyan context given a number of factors aggravating the food crisis. This study provides a situation analysis and prognosis of markets and prices in Kenya and the wider region.
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    Agriculture, hunger and food security

    Department for International Development, UK, 2004
    This article considers the linkages between agriculture, hunger and food security. It highlights that hunger and food insecurity remains at unacceptably high levels. To reduce this, it is important to understand how agriculture can most effectively contribute to food security and poverty alleviation. 
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    Empowering women through livelihoods orientated agricultural service provision: a consideration of evidence from southern Africa

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    From the 1990s onwards, a shift towards participatory and bottom-up approaches to agricultural development has meant improved livelihoods for women. How have agricultural extension services been designed to incorporate an effective understanding of women’s livelihoods? What have been the gains? And what are the policy blind spots?
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    Gender in agriculture sourcebook

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
    This extensive resource provides guidance for the development of rural agricultural strategies that effectively promote gender equality and women's empowerment and reduce poverty.   The Sourcebook is the outcome of a collaboration between the World Bank, The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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    Turning up the heat: Climate change and poverty in Uganda

    Oxfam, 2008
    With a specific focus on Uganda, this report examines the impacts of climate changes on agriculture, pastoralism, health and water. The report aims to serve as a stimulus for change for people in developing countries like Uganda who are feeling the worst impacts of climate change, even though their contribution to global warming has been miniscule.
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    Browsing on fences: pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This paper presents an overview of pastoral systems and addresses rights issues around access and control of resources in the context of climate change. The document brings together the inputs made by over 120 participants in a 2006 web-based forum and also includes material from a number of projects from around the world.
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    Water and the rural poor: interventions for improving livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

    Land and Water Development Division, FAO, 2008
    Insecure access to water for consumption and productive uses is a major constraint on poverty reduction in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This publication addresses the linkage between water and rural poverty in the region, in order to help decision-makers make informed choices on where and how to invest.
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    Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.

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