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    Philippines: food security versus agricultural exports?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    This paper tries to characterize the current situation in the Philippines with respect to the goal of the Aquino administration to be food secure and self-sufficient in rice by 2016.
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    Food outlook: biannual report on global food markets: FAO/UNDP

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013
    Food commodity markets are set to be more balanced in 2013/14, in particular cereals. The global food import bill is forecast to reach USD 1.09 trillion in 2013, 13 percent below the record of 2011 but close to the 2012 estimate, as higher bills for fish and livestock products are anticipated to offset lower expenditures on most other commodities, especially sugar.
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    Report Food Prices 2013/14 Annual R eview

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    Key messages from this Annual Review produced by ODI include:
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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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    Preliminary study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on discrimination in the context of the right to food

    UN Human Rights Council, 2010
    This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010.
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    Food security situation in Northern Ghana: coping strategies and related constraints

    African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2008
    This paper looks at the food security situation in three regions of Northern Ghana and examines how farmer households cope during food insecure periods.
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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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    Sudan food assistance transition study

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2007
    This study provides an assessment of the key issues related to the impact that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has had on the most insecure food and nutritionally vulnerable areas and people in southern Sudan and the Three Areas - Abyei, Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile.The objectives of the report are:
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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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    Food security: vulnerability despite abundance

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008
    This paper provides an overview of current thinking on food security, identifies the major food security challenges that lie ahead and makes detailed recommendations for tackling these challenges.

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