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1. Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Workshops Held in South Africa and Ethiopia
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Climate change is negatively affecting rural Africa. Farmers and pastoralists experience more droughts, floods, hailstorms, and fires, and are noticing rising temperatures. South African and Ethiopian policymakers discussed climate change adaptation strategies …
Contributed by Christina Lakatos on 6 November, 2007
2. Is the Nutritional Status of Males and Females Equally Affected by Economic Growth? Evidence from Vietnam in the 1990s
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While the nutritional status of individuals became in recent years a central issue in development economics, relevant and reliable data are often scarce. Available living standard surveys provide a wide set of information about household food consumption and calorie …
Contributed by Adam Swallow on 7 November, 2007
3. Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
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The contents, chapter 1, and the index of this volume, published in the UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics and Policy series by Palgrave Macmillan is available as a PDF sample. “When the history of our times is written, unarguably one of its greatest crimes …
Contributed by Adam Swallow on 7 November, 2007
4. Special Edition of E-jade: An Electronic Journal of Agricultural Development Economics from FAO
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In January 2006, the Agricultural and Development Economics Division of FAO gathered experts from around the world to a workshop to discuss major issues of relevance for rural development and rural poverty alleviation in today rapidly changing and globalizing …
Contributed by Denise Melvin on 7 November, 2007
6. National Reports on Right to Food
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The Hunger-Free Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative, a FAO project that seeks to eradicate hunger in this continent, has presented seven National Reports on Right to Food. These Reports were commissioned to five Not Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to …
Contributed by Andres Pascoe on 9 November, 2007
8. The Poverty Environment Nexus in Africa
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There are at least three key reasons why poverty and the environment should be addressed as a twin problem in Africa. First, Africa’s population is one of the fastest growing in the world. This is putting a lot of pressure on
land and other natural resources. …
Contributed by Sidy Sissoko on 10 November, 2007
10. Climate Change, Agricultural Policy and Poverty Reduction-How Much Do We Know?
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This paper seeks to trace the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture through changes in the quality of the physical asset base, access to assets, and impacts on grain production and on agricultural growth more generally. Its conclusions include suggestions …
Contributed by Immaculate Bugingo on 12 November, 2007
13. FAO and US Peace Corps to continue collaboration
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United States Peace Corps signed an agreement to continue their collaboration to help improve the conditions of the rural poor around the world.
Contributed by DR.PRABIR Dutta on 13 November, 2007
14. Hunger and World Poverty
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About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.
Contributed by Sidy Sissoko on 14 November, 2007
15. Word to help end world hunger
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For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.
WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance…
Contributed by Sidy Sissoko on 14 November, 2007
18. Diagnostic Tool Providing Clear And Reliable Indication Of Water Quality Supported By Grant From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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The fight against water-borne disease — one of the most serious threats to child health in developing countries — will receive a major boost thanks to groundbreaking work by an international consortium led by the University of Bristol and supported by a $13 million …
Contributed by Emmanuel Habumuremyi on 14 November, 2007
20. Working Together for an International Alliance Against Hunger
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In this time of ample world food production it is unacceptable that more than 840 million people remain hungry. Too many children die before adulthood, too many adults never reach their full potential, too many nations are stalled on the road to development …
Contributed by Emmanuel Habumuremyi on 14 November, 2007
25. Australian Aid: Approach to Food Security
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In 2002-2003 Australia announced that it would contribute $1 billion over five years to programs and initiatives that would enhance food security for people in the developing world, with a particular focus in the Asia-Pacific region. Australia supports food …
Contributed by Emmanuel Habumuremyi on 14 November, 2007
28. Stand Up Against Poverty
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A massive total of 43,716,440 participants in at least 6,540 events around the globe spanning 127 countries. They broke the world record - set last year at 23.5 million - for the largest number of people to Stand Up Against Poverty in 24 hours.
Contributed by Sidy Sissoko on 14 November, 2007
29. Climate change as the new security threat: implications for Africa
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This article reviews the linkages between climate change and security in Africa and analyses the role of climate change adaptation policies in future conflict prevention. Africa, with its history of ethnic, resource, and interstate conflict, is seen by many as …
Contributed by Immaculate Bugingo on 15 November, 2007
30. Climate change as the new security threat: implications for Africa
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/foodsecurity/rc/ItemDetail.do~1120195?intcmp=700
This article reviews the linkages between climate change and security in Africa and analyses the role of climate change adaptation policies in future conflict prevention. Africa, with its history of ethnic, resource, and interstate conflict, is seen by many as …
Contributed by Immaculate Bugingo on 15 November, 2007
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