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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 9
Policy brief, 2018
The Karamoja region, in North East Uganda, is one of the least developed regions of the country, and is highly vulnerable to resource-based conflict and climate change variability. Addressing food insecurity of vulnerable people is...
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April - June 2018
Information product, 2018
The Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) report on food security and agriculture is developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides a quarterly forward-looking analysis of major disaster risks...
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A joint FAO/WFP update for the United Nations Security Council ( January 2018)
Technical study, 2018
The report covers country briefs for 17 countries in four regions: Latin America: Haiti • Africa: Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Lake Chad Basin (northeastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger), Liberia,...
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FAO resilience analysis report No. 11
Technical study, 2018
Jordan, in Western Asia, has a population of approximately 9.5 million people, of which a significant share (more than two million people) are registered Palestinian refugees. The country currently faces significant challenges to its socioeconomic...
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FAO resilience analysis report No. 10
Technical study, 2018
The region of Karamoja, located in the northeast of Uganda, is the poorest and least developed region in the country. Historically, Karamoja has been a pastoral area; crop production, which is less reliable there, has...
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January - March 2018
Information product, 2018
The Global Early Warning - Early Action System Report on food security and agriculture is developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through its Early Warning/Early Action System (EWEA). The...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 17-07
Working paper, 2017
El Salvador is a peculiar case in that over three decades it has faced two different types of violence consecutively (the civil war and widespread post-war violence), which have had different impacts on food security....
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 17-06
Working paper, 2017
The relationships between food security and violent conflicts are conditioned, mediated and
influenced by the specific context in which they take place. In the case of Colombia, the main
mechanism whereby the armed conflict has had a...
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FAO Baseline impact evaluation report N. 2
Technical study, 2017
The region of Karamoja, located in the northeast of Uganda, is an area of particular interest to many humanitarian organizations for several reasons: food insecurity is a major challenge in the region; conflict both between...
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Disentangling the nexus between conflict, food security and peace
Technical study, 2017
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study, No. 2.
It is generally assumed that there are strong links between conflict, food security and peace. However, the precise underlying causes and channels that determine these links are often...
Available in:English