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ESA Working Paper 06-17
Document de travail, 2006
Improving agricultural productivity and farm level resilience to agricultural production shocks is a critical component of reducing poverty and improving household food security throughout the developing world, and particularly in Ethiopia which is among the...
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ESA Working Paper 06-16
Document de travail, 2006
This paper explores the relationship between social capital and crop diversity. The study is conducted in an area of Ethiopia where inter-specific diversity is significant and that diversity includes crops that are of important in...
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Étude de cas par pays, 2006
The crippling famines of the 1970s and 1980s in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) prompted
the development of national and regional early warning systems (EWS) across the
continent. Generally, these systems have been effective in alerting...
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Note de politique, 2006
This study has its origin in discussions about the analysis and practice of food security in protracted conflicts (de Waal, 1997; Flores, Khwaja and White, 2005; Seddon and Adhikari, 2003). Research in this field has revealed a...
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Note de politique, 2006
One primary use of EWS information is to produce national cereal balance sheets that include an estimate of aggregate food aid requirements. Some EWS are also involved in geographic targeting of food-insecure zones or conducting...
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Étude de cas par pays, 2006
Kenya is one of the focus countries of the EC/FAO Programme “Food Security Information for Action” whose broad objectives are to improve availability and quality of relevant food security information, reinforce capacity in formulating food...
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Étude de cas par pays, 2006
The report gives details on the pre-testing of survey tools in Malawi: the FANTA developed Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDD); the FANTA-developed Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS); and an individual dietary diversity score (IDD)....
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Note de politique, 2006
Since February 2004, FAO, through the Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) Somalia, has been developing the Integrated Food Security and Humanitarian Phase Classification (IPC) - a tool for improving analysis and decision making in emergency...
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Note de politique, 2006
The widely accepted World Food Summit (1996) definition reinforces the multidimensional nature of food security and includes food access, availability, food use and stability. It has enabled policy responses focused on the promotion and recovery...
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Note de politique, 2006
Humanitarian reform is an issue at the centre of the UN policy agenda; Donors and international agencies are working together to improve the predictability, timeliness and effectiveness of humanitarian response through a range of measures...
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