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    High food prices: impact and recommendations

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
    Prepared by the FAO, IFAD and WEP for the meeting of the Chief Executives Board for Coordination on 28-29 April in Berne, Switzerland, this paper argues that the rapid price increase of basic food commodities internationally poses a serious threat to food security in developing countries.
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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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    The world food situation: new driving forces and required actions

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    The world food situation is being rapidly redefined, as income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalisation, and urbanisation transform food consumption, production, and markets. This paper provides an overview of the the key forces driving these changes, and considers what policy responses are required to address the challenges ahead.
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    Enforcing the right to food in India: bottlenecks in delivering the expected outcome

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
    If production of food grains in India is ample, then why does India account for a third of the world’s hungry? This paper reviews initiatives by the Government of India to provide food security to its citizens, and it explores why the system in place has been unsuccessful.
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    Results of evaluation: Food for Schooling (FFS) in Bangladesh

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
    This report evaluates a Food for Schooling (FFS) programme in Bangladesh.
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    The public distribution systems of foodgrains and implications for food security

    2006
    What are the differences between the Public Distribution Systems (PDS) of foodgrains in India and China? This paper compares these two systems and how they have helped to improve national food security, food security of the general public, and food security of the poor.In the 1990s both India and China reformed their PDS, but each following a different path.
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    Special evaluation study of ADB interventions on nutrition and food fortification

    Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2006
    This document explores the strengths and weaknesses of Asia Development Bank (ADB)-financed regional technical assistance (RETA), a modality in addressing nutrition issues and initiatives. Five member countries were consulted and interviewed at the field level: Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, and Viet Nam.
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    An assessment of the impact of increasing wheat self-sufficiency and promoting cash-transfer subsidies for consumers in Egypt: a multi-market model

    Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2006
    This paper uses a multi-market approach to assess the impact of increased self-sufficiency in wheat and a switch to a cash-transfer subsidy on cropping patterns, food consumption, production, input use, and income.Wheat is central to the government of Egypt’s food security policy which is based on increasing self-sufficiency in wheat on the one hand and subsidising bread for consumers on the ot
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    Reviewing ten years of the School Nutrition Programme

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005
    The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope.
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    The state of food insecurity in the world, 2005

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
    The FAO food insecurity report of 2005 focuses on the critical importance of hunger reduction, which is the explicit target of the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) and of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1) which calls for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger.

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