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  Farmer-led irrigation development and investment strategies for food security, growth and employment in Africa

  Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, 2018

  Following a three year research programme, the SAFI research project gathered a group of researchers, policy-makers and irrigation specialists to define the characteristics of farmer-led irrigation development in Africa, and identify potential interventions by government and development agenci
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  Policies for improved food security: The roles of land tenure policies and land markets

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  This paper provides an overview of what we know about farm size distributions, the emerging land markets, the role of tenure systems, tenure reforms and land policies in shaping the distribution of increasingly scarce land resources. The primary focus is on Africa while making some comparisons with Asia.
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  Rethinking food aid in a chronically food-insecure region: Effects of food aid on local power relations and vulnerability patterns in Northwestern Nepal

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  The impacts of repeated food aid programmes on households’ livelihood strategies and capacity to adapt to stressors such as climate change were investigated in the chronically food-insecure district of Humla in Nepal, using food security as an entry point for analysing vulnerability.
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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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  Rice reforms and poverty in the Philippines: a CGE analysis

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004

  The quantitative restriction (QR) on rice will last until the end of 2004. The paper employs a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the possible poverty and distributional effects of the rem oval of QR and the reduction in tariff on rice imports.
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  Seeds of adaptation: climate change, crop diversification, and the role of women farmers

  2015

  Around the world, women farmers are taking a leading role in implementing strategies aimed at crop variety conservation and diversification, with the goal of strengthening local climate change adaptation capacities. That is the message conveyed in this gender brief by the Center for International Forestry Research.
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  The role of rural women farmers in household food security in Cross River State, Nigeria

  2015

  Women play a key role in ensuring food security, yet in Nigeria rural women farmers have suffered long-term marginalisation in the nation’s affairs. In light of this fact, this study seeks to determine and better understand the roles rural women farmers play as household food producers, as conservators of agrobiodiversity, and as food processors in the Cross River State.
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  Gender review of selected programmes in the agriculture portfolio of the Norwegian Embassy in Malawi

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015

  In Malawi, the Global Hunger Index classifies the food security situation as “serious”. Lack of food security causes child undernutrition and child mortality. Levels of malnutrition are alarmingly high. About half of all children under the age of five show signs of chronic malnutrition.
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  Owning seeds, accessing food: a human rights impact assessment of plant variety protection

  Development Fund, Norway, 2015

  RESEARCH • Ex ante human rights impact assessment (HRIA) • Case studies in six communities in Kenya, Peru and the Philippines • Assessing possible consequences of plant variety protection systems based on UPOV 91 model • Focus on the right to food of small-scale farmers in developing countries
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  Food security in a climate perspective: what role could the private sector play regarding investment in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  The purpose of this study is to discuss different ways of implementing the "Food Security in a Climate  Perspective  strategy 2013-15" in  relation  to  support  to  private  sector  development and  public-private  partnership  (PPP)  as  regards  agriculture,  climate  change  and  food se

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