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    Gender and intrahousehold food allocation in southern Ethiopia

    Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University, Israel, 2004
    This paper examines the patterns of food allocation within Ethiopian households, with a particular focus on gender differences and the sources of these differences.
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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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    Women’s health and nutrition: making a difference

    World Bank, 1994
    This paper, produced by the World Bank, provides an overview of women’s health and nutrition by considering the entire life cycle of the woman, taking into account both the specific and the cumulative effects of poor health and nutrition and the broader social issues that affect health.
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    The importance of women’s status for child nutrition in developing countries

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
    This report, produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute, explores the relationship between women’s status and children’s nutrition through examination of data in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The results show that women’s status has a positive influence on children’s nutritional status in all three regions.
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    Have gun give food: agriculture, nutrition, and civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa

    WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004
    This working paper, presented at the UNU-WIDER Conference on “Making Peace Work”, considers whether nutritional and agricultural crises may contribute to triggering civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa.From a statistical analysis of the relationship between nutritional and agricultural variables and the outbreak of civil war, the authors find that:protein and calorie supply are statistically
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    Report on the nutritional situation of refugees and displaced populations

    United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2003
    This is a quarterly report providing information on emergency affected populations. It gives a brief situation update and information on nutrition, mortality rates, health and food security in refugee and displaced populations.
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    What can food policy do to redirect the diet transition?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
    Is there a case for public investment in efforts to influence the transition toward increasingly healthy outcomes? This paper argues that with the existence of information asymmetries and negative externalities there is.The paper looks at what food policy can do and identifies a number of options from the food supply and demand sides.
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    Nutrition in the context of conflict and crisis

    United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2002
    This newsletter brings together a collaboration of papers from the symposium on nutrition in conflict and crisis.
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    Transcending boundaries to improve the food security of AIDS affected households in rural Uganda

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003
    This paper from the International Center for Research on Women provides information on the implementation of a collaborative project to improve household food security in rural Ugandan communities affected by HIV and AIDS. The aim of the project is increased collaboration between communities and specialists to improve the ability of households to meet their food security needs.
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    Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par

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