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    Land tenure reforms, tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies: causal linkages and research gaps

    Global Food Security - journal, 2016
    This paper reviews the literature to identify the relationship between tenure security and food security. The literatures on tenure issues and food security issues are not well connected and the scientific evidence on the causal links between tenure security and food security is very limited.
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    Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007
    In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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    Squeezed: life in a time of food price volatility, year 1 results

    Oxfam, 2013
    Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rapidly rise and fall, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And what can be done to improve life in a time of food price volatility?
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    Developing a climate-smart agriculture strategy at the country level: lessons from recent experience

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
    This paper presents recent experiences of country level implementation of climate smart agriculture (CSA) to identify some key lessons to incorporate into ongoing CSA activities in developing countries.
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    Southern voices on climate policy choices: analysis of and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
    Since the beginning of international climate change negotiations, civil society has worked alongside governments in shaping global agreements and keeping an eye on the implementation (and sometimes the lack of implementation) of these agreements. This report is the first joint product of the Southern Voices capacity building programme.
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    Do men matter? New horizons in gender and development: id21 insights, issue 35

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2000
    Why do men not feature more in gender and development policy? The shift in emphasis from Women in Development (WID) to Gender and Development (GAD), from enumerating and redressing women’s disadvantages to analysing the social relationships between men and women, has not led to a recognition within policy of the need to understand the position of women and men.
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    Ownership in practice (Paris, 27-28 September 2007)

    OECD Development Centre, 2007
    Experts agree that a development finance system must be owned by developing countries in order to reduce poverty and achieve sustained economic growth. Ahead of the 2008 High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra (Ghana), the OECD’s Global Forum on Development invited experts from South and North to an informal workshop to share their views on developing-country ownership.
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    The decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2007
    Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.
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    Evaluating co-ordination and complementarily of Country Strategy Papers with National Development Priorities

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    This study examines the role which the Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) and similar policy documents of the EC play in improving coordination and complementarity between EC and member states’ aid programmes.
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    HIV/AIDS stigma: finding solutions to strengthen HIV/AIDS programs

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2006
    AIDS related stigma has pernicious effect on the epidemic’s prevention. Fear of stigmatisation dissuades people from seeking help from treatment, care and support services. What factors perpetuate and contribute to stigma against those infected with HIV/AIDS?

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