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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers, Food security

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    Helping women respond to the global food crisis

    2008
    The 2007-2008 food price crisis received widespread attention but the gender dimensions of the crisis were largely overlooked.
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    Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico

    Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
    The development of high-yielding maize varieties has been a national strategy used in Mexico to address food insecurity.  However the continued cultivation of diverse local maize varieties is essential to the improvement of high-yielding varieties.
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    Are Cash Transfers a Suitable Alternative to Energy and Food Subsidies?

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2008
    As rising energy and food prices reached their peak, subsidies have come under increased scrutiny as a means of supporting the poor. Not only do they put a severe strain on government budgets, more often than not they miss their target owing to leakages, corruption and price distortions. An alternative to subsidies may consist in conditional cash transfers to the poor.
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    Regional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) Thematic Briefs

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) in southern Africa.
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    Cash transfers boost the local economy in rural Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Cash transfers are increasingly being used, instead of in-kind transfers such as food aid, in response to droughts and other emergencies. As well as allowing poor people to make their own choices about how to improve their situation, cash transfers can bring widespread benefits to the regional economy.
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    Rising food prices: drivers and implications for development

    Child Rights Information Network, 2008
    Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for international development. It assesses the drivers of rising prices, discusses the implications of higher prices for developing countries, and surveys implications for development policy.
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    Sharing experiences of cash transfers in southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Cash transfers are increasingly popular with governments, donors, and non-governmental organisations as a way to support vulnerable groups. This approach to social protection takes many different forms. The agencies and organisations that implement such programmes can learn from each other’s experiences.
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    Can payment for work schemes replace food aid in Ethiopia?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Chronic food insecurity presents a huge challenge to achieving sustainable development. Food aid is often used to provide assistance to the poorest people. This can result in dependency on food aid, however, and increase the numbers of households that lack food each year. What are the alternatives, and do they work?
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    Improving responses to hunger in southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The number of food shortages in southern Africa over the last five years indicates a long term decline in people’s ability to support themselves. The humanitarian response has been largely appropriate to relieve immediate suffering. However, a better understanding of the causes of these crises must inform policies and programmes to achieve food security in the longer term.
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    Safety nets: reducing risk and encouraging development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Providing ‘safety nets’ during food shortages involves distributing food or cash. This is a common short-term relief strategy to food shortages. Many economists claim that these discourage economic development, but safety nets actually encourage development when part of a comprehensive social protection strategy.

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