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Livestock in the balance
Major report, 2009
Livestock contributes 40 percent of the global value of agricultural output and support the livelihoods and food security of almost a billion people. Rapidly rising incomes and urbanization, combined with underlying population growth, are driving...
Country case study, 2009
The fisheries sector is a source of employment and income for more than 43 million fishers and fish farmers in the world, and the great majority of these live in developing countries, principally in Asia....
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Making the case for rights-focused and rights-based monitoring
Manual/guidelines, 2009
These Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food are intended to assist countries that are committed to the protection and realisation for all of the human right to adequate food. The focus is...
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Country case study, 2009
Sixty years after the first affirmation of the right to food, much remains to be done to make this a reality. In 2006, FAO’s State of Food Insecurity in the World report estimated the number...
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Country case study, 2009
The concept of resilience has recently been introduced into food security literature. It aims to measure households’ capability to absorb the negative effects of unpredictable shocks, as a legitimate component of vulnerability analysis. The definition...
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Experiences, achievements, challenges
Book/book chapter, 2008
The introductory paper in Part 1 summarizes the efforts and lessons learned from experiences in participating countries to improve food security statistics. Part 2 deals with food security estimates performed at national and sub-national levels...
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Country case study, 2008
The Tajikistan Household Budget Survey (HBS) has the particular characteristic of collecting expenditure and income data from the same households over a long period. The longitudinal survey design accounts for all variations, including seasonal effects,...
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Manual/guidelines, 2008
This tool enables teams to work through five stages towards a 'shared responsibility'. Either face-to-face or virtually, teams can go through the five stages assessing where they lie in terms of different areas including atmosphere...
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Manual/guidelines, 2008
A Challenge Session is a structured problem-solving framework which aims at creating changes in the way groups or individuals think about and solve problems.
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