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Here are some relevant articles from various sources on food security in dryland areas. |
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The special challenge for sub-Saharan Africa
After decades of decline in per capita food production, a new optimism has emerged about the prospects for Africa and African agriculture. Growth in agriculture and in the economy as a whole has outpaced population growth in many countries, armed conflicts have been reduced, regional and sub-regional institutions are being strengthened, and good progress has been made in developing the business environment. There is wide agreement that African agriculture has enormous potential for growth thanks to its abundant natural resources, namely land and water.
Issue brief from the FAO High-Level Expert Forum.
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"Land grabbing” by foreign investors in developing countries: Risks and opportunities
Policy Brief 13. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2009.
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Band Aids and Beyond: Tackling disasters in Ethiopia 25 years after the famine
133 Oxfam Briefing Paper
22 October 2009
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South Sudan Food Security Update
By USAID, September 2009
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Micronutrient Deficiencies in Food Aid Beneficiaries
By African Journal of Food Agriculture and Development, June 2009
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Outreach Issues: summing-up CSD 17
A daily publication of Sustainable Development Issues Network (SDIN) and Stakeholder Forum (SF). DCG is a co-author of the article "Should the 2 billion people living in drylands be more hopeful after CSD17?"
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Voluntary guidelines for good governance in land and natural resource tenure
Published by FIAN International and
Hakijamii (Economic and Social Rights Centre), January 2009.
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Land Grabbing by Foreign Investors in Developing Countries
Published bby IFPRI, Policy brief of the report land grabbing, April 2009
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A Recipe For Hunger: How the world is failing on food
ITUC report, International Trade Union Confederation, March 2009
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Indigenous food provessing methods that improve zinc by the kenyan population
published by Rural Outreach Program, 2009
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Sedentism and malnutrition among nomadic Fulani
African Journal of food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development. By Ekpo, Omotayo and MA Dipeolu, 2009
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The Right to Food and the Impact of Liquid Biofuels (Agrofuels)
A publication by THE RIGHT TO FOOD/FAO, 2009
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Empowering Women Through Livelihoods Orientated Agricultural Service Provision
A Publication by United Nations University - World Institute for Development Research, UNU-WIDER, 2008
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The Challenge of Hunger
A publication by IFPRI, 2008
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Rising food prices in developing countries: causes, consequences and solutions
This article provides the facts lying behind the increase of food price with regard to the production of biofuel .
By CIRAD, 2008
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When Disaster Strikes: A Guide to Assessing Seed System Security
A publication by CIAT, CRS, and USAID.
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Food Security and Complex Livelihoods in the Horn, East and Central Africa
Oxfam report, July 2008
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The Right to Food and the Impact of Liquid Biofuels (Agrofuels)
FAO Right to Food Studies
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Water and the Rural Poor: Interventions for Improving Livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa
IFAD and FAO
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Seed distribution - a reason for hunger?
This is an article in Norwegian by DCG and Caritas published on the website of Bistandsaktuelt. The article is based on the seed aid seminar that was organized by DCG and Caritas in May 2008.
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Fuelling Exclusion? The Biofuels Boom and Poor People’s Access
FAO and IIED, 2008
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Turning High Prices Into an Opportunity: What is Needed?
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Sudan Food Assistance Transition Study
Washington, DC: Food and Nutrition
Technical Assistance Project (FANTA), 2007.
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Bio-fuelling Poverty: Why the EU renewable-fuel target may be disastrous for poor people
This Oxfam Briefing Note discusses the European Commission's Renewable Energy Roadmap which proposes a mandatory target that biofuels must provide ten per cent of member states' transport fuels by 2020. Oxfam argues that this target is creating a scramble to supply in the South, posing a serious threat to vulnerable people at risk from land-grabbing, exploitation, and deteriorating food security.
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Lessons from Ethiopia on a scaled-up national safety net programme
Wahenga brief number 14, august 2007
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Beyond Any Drought
Root causes of chronic vulnerability in the Sahel
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Famine and Starvation in Ethiopia: Politics, Rights, Entitlements
Master thesis at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway.
Size: 1,43 MB
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Food Security Policy Advice
Summary of a Lessons Learned Study
on three German TC Policy Advisory Projects
in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Mozambique
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Migration and Livelihoods: The Voluntary Resettlement Program in Ethiopia
Master thesis, Noragric.
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Climate Variability and the Millennium Development Goal Hunger Target
Report by the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI)
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Towards Effective and Sustainable Seed Relief Activities
FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper 181
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Fostering Political Will for Food Security
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Causing Hunger: an overview of the food crisis in Africa
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Safety Nets and the Right to Food
Here is an information paper from FAO that explores the role that social safety nets, and more specifically food safety nets, can play in realising the right to food.
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Saving lives through livelihoods:
Critical gaps in the response to the drought in the Greater Horn of Africa.
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Food Aid and Food Security in the Short- and Long Run
Country Experience from Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Fighting Hunger and Poverty in Ethiopia
This book provides an overview of the implementation of Ethiopia’s National Policy for Disaster Prevention and
Management (NPDPM), with a particular focus on Employment Generation Schemes (EGS) and its potential contribution towards hunger eradication and poverty reduction.
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