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Searching with a thematic focus on Food security in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi

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    Wheat consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa: trends, drivers, and policy implications

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012
    Staple grain consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is rising at the same time that the region is becoming more dependent on imported staples. This paper discusses the potential dilemmas posed by SSA’s increasing reliance on imported staples, and examines the pros and cons of various options for African countries to meet their staple grain needs.
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    Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition

    2012
    Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’. Yet no clear consensus has so far emerged concerning many basic design choices and implementation of social protection policies and programs.
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    Achieving food security: id21 insights, issue 61

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Halving hunger and extreme poverty by 2015 is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). However, persistent hunger is still prevalent worldwide, slowing progress towards all other MDGs, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Food assistance programming in the context of HIV

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007
    This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes.
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    Assessing household food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Reducing hunger in developing countries depends on reliable estimates of food insecurity. Using data about how much food individual households acquire may be a more accurate way to measure dietary quantity and quality than national level data.
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    id21 viewpoint - a response to id21 insights #61

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Food, agriculture and the challenge of beating hunger in Africa lead the international development agenda today. But these are not new issues: Africa has been falling behind on all key development indicators for decades. It is clear that Africa urgently requires new solutions.
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    Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?
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    Agricultural recovery from disasters – the importance of seed-based support

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Ensuring farmers have seed is an essential part of emergency aid strategies in Africa. But how effective are these strategies, and who benefits from them?
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    FEWS NET Monthly Food Security Updates

    Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 1999
    News bulletin from FEWS/USAID focusing on food supply prospects and news for African countriesUntil 1999 this was known as the Fews Bulletin