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Searching with a thematic focus on Food security, Food security and livelihoods, Livelihoods agricultural assets, Poverty, Household poverty

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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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  Shocks and their consequences across and within households in rural Zimbabwe

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This brief looks at how households in Zimbabwe try to smooth consumption and assets. It looks at the empirical evidence on the churning of households in and out of poverty and the possibility that temporary shocks can have permanent consequencesThe research examines the impact of shocks by levels of asset holdings and assesses the impact on individual welfare.
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  Churning on the margins: how the poor respond to drought in south Wollo, Ethiopia

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper examines the degree to which the drought of 1999-2000 affected poverty trends in rural Ethiopia, and looks at how strategies in the coping and/or recovery period can assist drought-affected households.