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  Rural poverty in Malanje, Angola

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017

  This report is part of the research programme “Cooperation on Research and Development in Angola” between Centro de Estudos e Investigação Científica (CEIC) at the Catholic University in Luanda, Angola and Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. The objective of the programme is to increase the quality, quantity and availability of relevant research-based knowledge on Angola.
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  The impact of food assistance on pastoralist livelihoods in humanitarian crises: an evidence synthesis protocol

  Oxfam, 2016

  This protocol outlines plans for conducting an evidence synthesis on the impact of food aid on past
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  Thailand's seafood slaves: human trafficking, slavery and murder in Kantang’s fishing industry

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2016

  The Thai seafood industry employs more than 800,000 people, while seafood exports are valued at $6 billion. Slavery, ‘pirate’ fishing and other serious crimes continue to plague Thailand’s seafood sector highlighting the shortcomings in private sector initiatives and government controls.
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  Public stockpiling of rice in Asia Pacific

  S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2016

  The public stockpiling of staple grains is one of the earliest strategies used to mitigate food supply instability.
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  Hatchery-bred milkfish fry: a must for fisheries development

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000

  Milkfish is the national fish of the Philippines not only because it is a favorite viand of the population. The milkfish industry has also been contributing about 10 percent, on average, to total fisheries production for the past two decades (Israel 2000).
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  Gender inequality, risk and vulnerability in the rural economy: refocusing the public works agenda to take account of economic and social risks

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  Although the gender-specific challenges of women’s largely unequal involvement in agricultural activities are generally well-articulated, social protection policy and programming have not adequately recognised the gendered experiences of poverty and vulnerability and the extent to which gender inequality affects both social protection programme design and outcomes.
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  The State of Food and Agriculture: social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015

  This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 reviews the effectiveness of social protection interventions in reducing poverty, raising food consumption, relieving household food insecurity and hunger, and promoting longer-term improvements in nutrition. It is argued that social protection programmes are effective at reducing poverty and hunger.
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  Smallholders at risk: monoculture expansion, land, food and livelihoods in Latin America

  Oxfam, 2014

  Greater investment in agriculture is needed to reduce rural poverty and improve food security; but how investment is made, its context and conditions, is at least as important as how much is invested.
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  Taxes and transition: formalising small-scale farmers in Peru?

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2015

  Like many developing countries, Peru needs to increase tax collection to provide public goods and services for its people. In the agricultural sector, out of a total of 2.2 million farmers only 42,000 pay taxes; 1.8 million work on less than five hectares of land, most in the informal sector.
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  Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and the fisheries, livestock and crop sectors: adjustments in the pasture leases

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994

  This study focuses on the responses of pasture leases to the possibility of agrarian reforms by using the survey of 145 pasture leases in Masbate, Bukidnon and South Cotabato where pasture leases where concentrated. This paper relies mainly on the descriptive method of analysis.

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