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    Southern Africa food security outlook: October 2007 to March 2008

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007
    This report summarises the results of a study of the food security outlook for Southern Africa, highlighting the major threats to food security in the period October 2007 to March 2008. It incorporates the findings from six country outlooks, and aims to provide a basis for regional and global resource allocation and contingency planning, as well as in-country planning.
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    Ethiopia: the path to self-resiliency

    CHF, 2007
    This report is the result of a research effort managed and coordinated by CHF on behalf of the 15-member Canadian NGO Network in Ethiopia (CANGO) to assess the factors that contribute to the vulnerability and resilience of communities and households in rural Ethiopia.
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    SARD and rural enterprises

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    The authors here explore how the rural populace can improve their livelihoods by participating in the market economy – in a way that is equitable, sustainable and secures decent work. The report details the pressing need for rural enterprise:
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    Making agriculture work for the poor

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    This paper looks at the links between poverty, agriculture and land, reporting on panel data analysis in five countries – Vietnam, Uganda, India, Nicaragua and Ethiopia. It suggests that three ‘pillars’ can help to make agriculture work for the rural poor – infrastructure, education and information. Policy conclusions are:
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    Securing household income among small-scale farmers in Kakamega District: possibilities and limitations of diversification

    GIGA Deutsches Orient-Institut / GIGA German Institute for Middle East Studies, 2007
    This paper examines the argument presented in the sustainable rural livelihoods literature that diversification can increase incomes and food security. The case of small-scale farmers in Kakamega District, Kenya is applied. Using this approach, the paper concludes that:
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    Rice production in the Maswa District, Tanzania and its contribution to poverty alleviation

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    This study surveys three villages important for rice production in the Maswa District, Tanzania: Shishiyu, Mwanhegele and Bukangilija. Special attention is given to the rice based cropping system and its contribution to poverty alleviation relative to other activities in the farming system.
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    World Development Report 2008: agriculture for development

    World Development Report, World Bank, 2007
    Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. This year’s edition of the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) highlights the importance of agriculture for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
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    Linking social protection and the productive sectors

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    Agricultural growth can be socially protecting, but is also vulnerable to shocks and stresses, particularly for small farmers and farm workers. This paper sets out current practice and future prospects in respect of how social protection and agriculture relate to each other.
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    Rural employment and migration: in search of decent work

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    A further 106 million will have joined the rural labour force in the developing world between 2005 and 2015, but what work will they find, and where? This paper argues that new thinking on rural employment is needed to create more and better rural jobs.
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    Biofuels, agriculture and poverty reduction

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    The development of biofuels has generated vigorous debate on economic and environmental grounds. This paper assesses the potential impacts of biofuels on poverty reduction. It argues that the potential is large, whether through employment, wider growth multipliers or energy price effects.

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