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    Sustaining agricultural biodiversity and the integrity and free flow of genetic resources for food for agriculture

    Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002
    This report claims that agricultural biodiversity is being lost as a result of industrialisation, the globalisation of markets and genetically modified crops.It calls on governments to implement treaties and plans to which they have signed up but are not enforcing.
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    From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afghanistan

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    This issue focuses on the economic, social and instiutional restructuring required in Afghanistan to achieve food security and justice.The major areas of action required include:the revival of Afghan agricultureaffirmative actions to restore Afghan women’s rightseducation to develop human capital The articles included are:From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afgha
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    Fighting famine in Southern Africa: steps out of the crisis

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    Briefing paper on policy approaches that IFPRI research in Africa has shown to be effective in fighting famine.
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    State of disaster: Causes, consequences & policy lessons from Malawi

    ActionAid International, 2002
    Action Aid report which examines the immediate causes and underlying vulnerabilities which led to the food crisis in Malawi in 2001 and which threatens to cause further famine in 2002. The report challenges a number of fallacies about the famine and concludes that it occurred as a result of the increased vulnerability of rural livelihoods combining with weak institutional policies and responses.
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    Pastoral early warning and early response systems in the greater horn of Africa (workshop proceedings)

    Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2001
    This report summarises the proceedings of a regional workshop on Pastoral Early Warning and Response Systems, held in Mombasa, Kenya from November 13-15, 2001.
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    Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
    This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.
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    Diversity on the Deccan Plateau

    GRAIN, 2002
    Case study examining the relationship between traditional rain fed agricultural methods, food security and agricultural biodiversity in the poor growing conditions on the Deccan plateau in Southern India. The article describes the implementation of careful and complex farming strategies used in the region to extract the most benefit from the fragile dryland soils.
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    Diversity in income-generating activities for sedentarized pastoral women in northern Kenya

    International Livestock Research Institute, 2000
    This article explores how women adopt new town-based income generation activties as they settle around market centres. The study focuses on this process among East Africa pastoralists.
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    Gender, pastoralism, and intensification: changing environmental resource use in Morocco

    Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1998
    Through a study of the sedentarization of the Beni Guil pastoral nomads of eastern Morocco,this paper examines how gender interacts with environmental and socio-economic change.
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    Forests, food security and sustainable livelihoods

    Unasylva, FAO, 2000
    Unasylva issue looking at different perpectives on issues of physical and economic access to food for forest dependent peoples. Articles are structured as a series of case studies from around the world to analyse the linkages between food security and problems such as degradation and deforestation.

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