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    Understanding District Ecosystems: Implementation of Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Policies in Sabarkantha and Bijapur Districts (India)

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017
    Nutrition policies are shaped at a national and state level in India; however programmes are implemented by the district administration.
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    Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India

    Young Lives, 2012
    Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity and leading ultimately to economic loss for the nation as a whole.
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    The determinants of rural household food security in the Punjab, Pakistan: an econometric analysis

    AgEcon Search, 2012
    Pakistan is one of the leading producers of important agricultural commodities in the world with a relatively high proportion of undernourished population (26 %). This study aims to examine the food security trends in Pakistan in general, and to find out the household level food security and its key determinants in the rural areas of the Punjab Province in particular.
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    Rising food prices and declining food security: evidence from Afghanistan

    AgEcon Search, 2012
    Food price shocks can exacerbate chronically low levels of nutrient intake in countries with large populations living in poverty with generally poor diets. This paper examines the case of Afghanistan in the 2007/08 season, when rapid rise in wheat prices impacted household food security.
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    Food aid or food sovereignty?: ending world hunger in our time

    The Oakland Institute, 2005
    Food aid has been ‘cheap’ aid, expected to serve domestic interests and to fight hunger at the same time. This paper argues that apart from specific disaster situations, this does not work. The author claims that food aid participates in the rise of hunger while it helps the implementation of adverse policies. The paper underlines that:
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    2011 Global Food Policy Report

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
    2011 saw significantly increased support of agriculture and food policy as tools for global poverty reduction. It also brought serious challenges, most notably in the form of food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, famine, unrest, and conflicts.
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    Biggin’ it up – food security and obesity in Jamaica and St Lucia

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
    The food systems and the nature of food security problems in the Caribbean countries are gradually changing. This paper explores two different aspects of food security, namely undernourishment and overweight in the two Caribbean Islands of Jamaica and St. Lucia.
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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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    Innovative approaches to gender and food security: insights, issue 82

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012
    This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s  empowerment. They can focus on women’s critical role as food producers, consumers  and family carers, while transforming gender norms and inequalities within households and communities.
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    Cost-minimizing food budgets in Ghana

    AgEcon Search, 2010
    Attaining the daily required nutritional recommendations is a major challenge in Ghana. This paper is tries to determine the cheapest basket of food items that satisfy the recommended daily nutritional requirements of the average Ghanaian.

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