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Policy brief, 2010
Safety net programmes have proved to be a
useful instrument to tackle hunger and
malnutrition in Bangladesh. However,
insufficient co-ordination between the manifold
initiatives causes inefficiencies and limits coverage of poor households suffering from hunger....
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Manual/guidelines, 2010
FAO’s Climate Impact Team has been developing an integrated toolbox to assess the impact of climate change on agriculture. The resulting analysis will support decision making at the national level. This toolbox has a series...
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Country case study, 2010
This report presents the findings of an International Data Management and GIS Consultant mission to Cambodia from 24 August to 4 September 2010, under the EC “Linking Information and Decision Making to Improve Food Security”....
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Manual/guidelines, 2010
The resilience tool provides a framework for understanding the most effective combination of short and long term strategies for lifting families out of cycles of poverty and hunger. By using this quantitative approach, decision makers...
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Book/book chapter, 2010
The recent escalation of world food prices - particularly for cereals - prompted mass public indignation and demonstrations in many countries, from the price of tortilla flour in Mexico to that of rice in the...
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ESA Working Paper 10-03
Working paper, 2010
Empirical findings show that access to adequate and sufficient food in developing countries is unstable, suggesting that whether a household or individual is food secure at any point in time is best thought of in...
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ESA Working Paper 10-02
Working paper, 2010
FAO is the main provider of country-level estimates of undernourishment covering the whole world. Its methodology has the main advantage of facilitating comparisons across countries and over time, but also has a limited capacity to...
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Country case study, 2010
This report presents a review of data management and mapping tools used to improve informed decisionmaking in food security, and makes some recommendations for their implementation within the EC CGP/RAS/247/EC, which aims to link information...
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Journal articles, 2010
Urban agriculture may have a role to play in addressing urban food insecurity problems, which are bound to become increasingly important with the secular trend towards the urbanization of poverty and of population in developing...
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Policy brief, 2010
Bangladesh has made significant progress in
boosting national food production. However,
a large part of the population still lacks access
to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. In light of
renewed and increasing donor commitments to...
Available in:English