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Reducing the Risk of Food and Nutrition Insecurity among Vulnerable Populations

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Vulnerable populations are minimally resilient to shocks, whether caused by humans or natural disasters. Emerging threats and new trends—such as climate change, population growth, aging societies, urbanization, infectious as well as noncommunicable diseases, and environmental degradation—are bound to aggravate the consequences of shocks on already vulnerable populations by triggering damage, loss, and displacement. Such threats pose an additional hurdle to the stated policy objective of the more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 16, 2012

Making the EU's Common Agricultural Policy coherent with development goals

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This ODI Briefing Paper calls for a fresh look at the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy alongside development goals and the new global context.

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Moushumi Biswas on September 04, 2011

We Won’t Accept Hunger Ambassadors’ Toolkit

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This toolkit is for you. It is for anyone who has an interest in helping stop hunger. You can use as little or as much of it as you want to. It also has specially adapted chapters for We Won’t Accept Hunger champions, called ‘ambassadors’, to help them design campaign actions or train other people in campaigning techniques. Again, it is important to underline that you need use only the parts of this toolkit that you are comfortable with.Hunger is the world’s biggest killer but it can be more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

Agricultural policy (AP2011) Reform and the WTO: Potential Impacts on Swiss Agriculture

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This article analyzes the impact of the planned Swiss package of agricultural policy measures AP2011 and the tariff reductions scheduled as part of the WTO Doha Round, with special emphasis on effects in the dairy and meat sector. The simulations are carried out using an extended partial equilibrium model. This article discusses the anticipated impact of changing structural conditions on production, processing, consumption, prices and exports in the milk market. If account is taken of the more...

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Sonia Hossain on September 10, 2011

Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future

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The 2012 Human Development Report for Africa explores why dehumanizing hunger remains pervasive in the region, despite abundant agricultural resources, a favorable growing climate, and rapid economic growth rates. It also emphasizes that food security – the ability to consistently acquire enough calories and nutrients for a healthy and productive life - is essential for human development. To boost food security, it argues for action in four interrelated areas: agricultural productivity, more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 15, 2012

Public/private agricultural investment Conference 2012

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June 25 - 26, 2012Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center, Washington, DCIn its second year, the Cracking the Nut 2012 Conference, set for June 25-26 at the Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center in Washington, D.C., has a narrow focus with broad implications: Leveraging public private partnerships to develop rural and agricultural markets. Improving value chains, successful investing and best practices in connecting multinationals with mid-level suppliers and the rural smallholder farmer, are all more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

Realising rights, protecting forests: An alternative vision for reducing deforestation

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The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of southern and northern NGOs representing around 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations from 38 countries, formed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Accra, Ghana in 2008. The Caucus works to place the rights of indigenous and forest communities at the centre of negotiations on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), and to ensure that efforts to more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

Dernières actualités ACP-EU: la clause de la NPF, le PE, et l’Afrique du Sud

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Malgré ses critiques continues contre l’UE et les APE, Benjamin William Mkapa, l’ancien Président tanzanien a souligné que l’on observe une certaine sympathie de la part de l’UE pour les inquiétudes de l’Afrique puisque les comités du Parlement européen sur le développement (DEVE) et le commerce international (INTA) ont récemment élaboré des propositions rejetant la proposition d’amendement au Règlement 1528/2007, qui prévoit un accès au marché de l’UE sans taxes et sans quotas. Le more...

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CTA Brussels office on May 15, 2012

Policy Brief: Strengthening Agriculture Marketing with ICT

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The World Bank, in collaboration with the e-Agriculture Community and FAO, is holding a series of online forums. These forums stem from the launch of the World Bank's ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook and the growing demand for knowledge on how to use ICT to improve agricultural productivity and raise smallholder incomes.The first forum in this series focused on how ICT can improve agricultural marketing in developing countries. It took place 5-16 December 2011, and Sourcebook module 9 set the more...

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D C on April 26, 2012

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS): A guide for civil society

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This is a guide for civil society organisations (CSOs) to the Committee on World Food Security – known as the CFS.It explains what the CFS is, why it is important, and how civil society organisations worldwide can monitor, influence or get involved in the work of the CFS at the global, regional and the national level.The guide is written in plain language for social movements, communitybased organisations (CBOs), civil society (CSOs), and local or international non-governmental organisations more...

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D C on May 09, 2012

Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

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The aim of the guidelines: to promote food security and sustainable development by improving secure access to land, fisheries and forests and protecting the rights of millions of often very poor people.The new Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security outline principles and practices that governments can refer to when making laws and administering land, fisheries and forests rights.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 13, 2012

Misunderstood: Getting the Right Response to Food Shortages in the Sahel

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A bleak narrative of 16 million plus people on the brink of starvation in West Africa’s Sahel region has captured headlines. But the brewing food crisis, spanning Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Chad, has been overstated, and the headlines fail to identify the core causes of food insecurity and malnutrition in the region.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 13, 2012

Fighting hunger in the Sahel

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Drought has returned to the Sahel region of West Africa following an erratic and late 2011 rainy season, bringing hunger to millions in the region for the third time in the past decade. In an area of the world where most people live only on what they can grow, inconsistent rains, failed harvests and dying animals mean that hunger is a fact of life for many.In Niger, 6.1 million people are estimated to be severely or moderately food-insecure. Results from a recent national nutrition survey in more...

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D C on May 02, 2012

Oddar Meanchey Community Forestry REDD+: Frontline SMS Pilot

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Between September and December 2011, the Pact Community Forestry Partnership program piloted Frontline SMS, an open-source mobile phone SMS (Short Message Service) communication interface. In the trial the Frontline SMS application Frontline Forms was used for community forest patrol reporting by community forest management groups.The purpose of the trial was two-fold:• To use mobile phones for forest patrol reporting, and• To determine the applicability of Frontline SMS for the Oddar Meanchey more...

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D C on April 19, 2012

Achieving food security in the face of climate change

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On a planet with sufficient food for all, a billion people go hungry. Another billion over-consume, increasing risks from chronic diseases. The food system faces additional pressure as the global population grows, to around 9 billion by 2050, and as diets shift towards higher consumption of calories, fats and animal products. Food insecurity afflicts communities throughout the world wherever poverty prevents assured access to food supplies. As well as causing widespread human suffering, food more...

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D C on May 01, 2012

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