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ESA Working Papers 07-28
Working paper, 2007
This paper documents the main findings of a study on food insecurity and vulnerability in the Indian state of Orissa in support of promoting interventions for food security and livelihoods at state level. A similar...
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ESA Working Paper 07-26
Working paper, 2007
Many governments intervene directly in agricultural product, in particular food, markets. A quantitative assessment of the impact of the policy changes on the desired objectives is important as it helps inform and shape the policy...
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ESA Working Paper 07-22
Working paper, 2007
This paper documents the main findings of the vulnerable profiling work carried out in the State of Himachal Pradesh, India, as a mean to support the planning of food security and livelihoods promoting interventions at...
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Manual/guidelines, 2007
This document is a guide for implementing one such option, the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS), which is an adaptation of the approach used to estimate the prevalence of food insecurity in the United...
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Manual/guidelines, 2007
Household food access is defined as the ability to acquire sufficient quality and quantity of food to meet all household members’ nutritional requirements for productive lives. Given the variety of activities implemented by Cooperating Sponsors...
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ESA Working Paper 07-19
Working paper, 2007
This paper studies rural demographic trends at the global level with an analysis of a specially prepared database of population age/gender/rurality tables from population censuses. The focus is to identify the main demographic differences in...
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Evidence from Costa Rica
Journal articles, 2007
We review claims linking both payments for carbon and poverty to deforestation. We examine these effects empirically for Costa Rica during the late 20th century using an econometric approach that addresses the irreversibilities in deforestation....
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As a way to monitor, evaluate and influence the realization of the right to food
Manual/guidelines, 2007
Budget analysis is crucial in evaluating government decisions about allocation and distribution of scarce resources among competing priorities, and whether adequate resources are allocated to human rights. The analysis includes how funds are allocated
and...
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Information product, 2007
Indigenous peoples are among the world’s most vulnerable groups and poorest socio-ethnic populations. They make up a significant percentage of the food insecure, often facing chronic hunger and malnutrition. Paradoxically, due to a growing dependency...
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Manual/guidelines, 2007
Developing a strategy to implement the right to food must begin by evaluating the current situation. Right to Food Guideline* 3.2 recommends that duty-bearers (states) start with a, “careful assessment of existing national legislation, policy...
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