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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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    West Bank and Gaza Strip: comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2007
    What are the recent changes in the political and economic situation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS)? Updated information is greatly needed to inform policy development and programme planning as it relates to food security. This assessment addresses the demand for such information. Some of the findings on the overall food security situation in WBGS include:
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    Demand for food quantity and quality in China

    Economic Research Service, USDA, 2007
    Why has China’s surging income growth not pushed its demand for food beyond domestic production capacity?This study assesses changes in food demand in China.Essentially it reveals that as household incomes rise, consumers demand not only a greater quantity of food, but also food with a higher quality.
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    Structural shift in demand for food: projections for 2020

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2006
    Over the past two decades, even the poor in India have shifted their consumption away from cereals towards other foods. What are the implications of this for India’s future food security? This study reviews trends in per capita consumption of cereals and non-cereals to identify the factors that affect changes in cereal consumption, and compares future demand with supply projections.
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    Food retailing, supermarkets and food security: highlights from Latin America

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
    With the advent of supermarkets in urban centres in many developing countries, the question of their impact on access to food and food security for the urban poor has arisen.
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    Food security in the South Pacific island countries with special reference to the Fiji Islands

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
    This paper analyses the status of food security in several South Pacific Island countries, namely Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.
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    State intervention for food price stabilisation in Africa: can it work?

    Programme of Advisory and Support Services to DFID, 2005
    This paper discusses the options for the stabilisation of the prices of staple foods principally in Eastern and Southern Africa. It addresses three broad questions: Why is the stabilisation of food prices desirable? What is technically feasible?
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    Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005
    This paper, published in the Public Library of Science Medicine, examines the global health effects of economic development, focusing on cardiovascular diseases and their nutritional risk factors, including overweight and obesity, elevated blood pressure, and cholesterol.
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    South Africa’s food security crisis

    National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2002
    This paper argues that South Africa faces a crisis of rising food prices and food insecurity. Food prices rose by 17 per cent between June 2001 and June 2002, compared to non-food inflation of 7 per cent; the price of maize meal doubled during this period; and further price rises were expected.
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    Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par

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