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Here are some relevant articles from various sources on food security in dryland areas. |
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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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Sudan: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment
This UNEP assessment report was carried out to develop a solid technical basis for medium-term corrective action in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development in Sudan following the conflict.
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Issue of 'Disasters' on food security in Sudan
This webpage provides links to several articles on issues of famine, food security and food aid in Sudan. These papers were presented at a forum in Khartoum in June 2006.
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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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