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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Food security, Norway

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  Norwegian aid to food security, nutrition and agriculture

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2018

  This report reviews available research on the links between agriculture and the rest of the economy, with a focus on structural adjustment and the role of agriculture in economic growth and poverty reduction. Furthermore, the report discusses the links between agricultural production, nutrition and food security.
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  Food security indicators: how to measure and communicate results

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2018

  The purpose of this paper is to assess how to measure food security and how to communicate results of activities that have improved food security as a goal. There are many challenges in measuring and communicating food security results.
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  Land tenure reforms, tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies: causal linkages and research gaps

  Global Food Security - journal, 2016

  This paper reviews the literature to identify the relationship between tenure security and food security. The literatures on tenure issues and food security issues are not well connected and the scientific evidence on the causal links between tenure security and food security is very limited.
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  Food for Work and diet diversity in Ethiopia

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  We use four waves of panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the link between Food for Work (FFW) participation and the diversity of food consumption and production. Food-based transfer programs have become a standard tool for addressing the problem of chronic food insecurity in developing countries.
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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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  Food price differences across Indian states: patterns and determinants

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2016

  The paper examines food price differences across Indian states during 2004-2014 using food consumer prices from household surveys and wholesale/retail prices for selected goods. At the individual product level there are large price differences across states, with prices doubling or trebling across India for a typical case, but with considerable variation across products.
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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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  Capacity building material for the realization of farmers rights in Malawi: farmers' rights related to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in Malawi

  Development Fund, Norway, 2015

  The capacity building material on Farmers’ Rights is framed within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

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