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Decent rural employment: Key for poverty reduction and food security |
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Integrating Food Security Information in National Statistical Systems |
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| FAO has a global mandate to monitor progress made towards achieving the targets
on hunger set by the MDG in 2000 and the WFS in 1996. It tracks this progress by
providing regular estimates of the proportion and number of people whose daily
dietary energy consumption (DEC) is less than the minimum daily dietary energy
requirement (MDER). The methodology for estimating hunger, or the prevalence of
undernourishment indicator, is (...) |
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2012
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Training Guide: Gender and Climate Change Research in agriculture and food security for rural development |
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| Both women and men play a significant role in safeguarding food security, and their respective roles and responsibilities need to be well understood to ensure that men and women benefit equally from climate-smart agriculture practices. Little research, however, has been undertaken to understand how men and women are adapting to climate change, mitigating emissions and maintaining food security.
As one of many steps toward (...) |
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2012
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Good Practices In Building Innovative Rural Institutions to Increase Food Security |
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| Continued population growth, urbanization and rising incomes are likely to continue to put pressure on food demand. International prices for most agricultural commodities are set to remain at 2010 levels or higher, at least for the next decade (OECD-FAO, 2010). Small-scale producers in many developing countries were not able to reap the benefits of high food prices during the 2007-2008 food price crises. Yet, this upward food (...) |
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2012
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Effects of global warming on vulnerability to food insecurity in rural Nicaragua |
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| There is growing evidence that global warming will have a substantial negative impact on agricultural yields, in particular in developing countries. This constitutes a risk for rural households, and unless these households are able to manage this risk, they will become increasingly vulnerable to food insecurity. In using data on Nicaragua, this paper demonstrates how an econometric model can be used to inform decision makers (...) |
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Enhancing the contribution of non-wood forest products to poverty alleviation and food security in Central African countries - Information note No. 2 |
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Interventions in water to improve livelihoods in rural areas |
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| While water control is often not the only limiting factor in crop production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), it is often the starting point for any improvement in agricultural productivity. In many areas, farmers work with poor soils, they have limited financial credit, they apply too little fertilizer, and they are unable to harvest and deliver their crops to market in a timely fashion. However, in many arid and semi-arid (...) |
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2010
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Conference on Ecological Agriculture: Mitigating Climate Change, Providing Food Security and Self-Reliance for Rural Livelihoods in Africa |
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| The Conference on Ecological Agriculture: Mitigating Climate Change, Providing Food Security and Self-Reliance for Rural Livelihoods in Africa was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 26-28 November 2008. It was organised by the African Union (AU), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ethiopia, in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable (...) |
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2010
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UN JOINT PROGRAMMES - Integrating gender issues in food security, agriculture and rural development |
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| These guidelines provide practical guidance to support programme and operations staff in UN Country Teams to integrate gender e quality concerns into Joint Programmes (JP) for food security, agriculture and rural development.
The guidelines outline oppor tunities to incorporate gender into both the JP process (formulation, implementation and monitoring and evaluation) and project document. They include a general gender (...) |
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2010
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Enhancing the contribution of non-wood forest products to poverty alleviation and food security in Central African countries - Information note No. 1 |
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Food Price Fluctuations, Policies and Rural Development in Europe and Central Asia - FAO-UNDP Europe and Central Asia Regional Consultation |
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Indigenous and Tribal peoples: Building on biological and cultural diversity for food and livelihood security |
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(MDGs) were adopted in 2000, the international
community made an unprecedented pledge to
meet the needs of the world’s poor and to safeguard
them against the threats of the twenty-first
century.2 Leaders of 147 states reaffirmed the
principles of poverty reduction, democratic governance,
and human rights protection, which have
been at the heart of the United Nations system
since its (...) |
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2009
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Rural livelihood and biosecurity of smallholder poultry producers and poultry value chain |
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| Reports of the project GCP/INT/010/GER summarize the findings from an integrated approach to prevent and control Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in the smallholder environment of Cambodia, Egypt and Uganda by considering the components of animal health (AH), poultry breeds (B) and livelihoods (L). |
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2009
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Deriving Food Security Information fromNational Household Budget Surveys |
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| 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 in
four countries. The papers of Cambodia and the Philippines are examples of food
security statistics with gender analysis, while the Lao PDR and Mozambique papers
are examples of (...) |
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2008
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The evolving contexts of AIDS and the challengesfor food security and rural livelihoods |
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| Over the past 30 years, the HIV virus has spread unevenly around the world, causing very large epidemics
in parts of East and Southern Africa, and relatively small epidemics outside Africa. By the
1990s, it had become clear that the HIV epidemic was undoing years of slowly earned progress in rural
development by triggering significant increases in rural poverty and producing widespread destitution
in the most affected (...) |
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2008
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Education for rural people and food security |
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| Education for Rural People (ERP) is crucial to achieving by 2015 the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of eradicating extreme poverty and
hunger (No. 1), achieving universal primary education (No. 2), promoting
gender equality (No. 3) and ensuring environmental sustainability (No. 7).
The World Food Summit, held in Rome in 1996, highlighted the need to
increase access to education for the poor and the members of (...) |
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2007
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The role of FAO in the rehabilitation of rural livelihoods in Guatemala post tropical storm stan |
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The Wye Group Handbook Rural Households’ Livelihood and Well-being |
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| The handbook is intended for the benefit of various groups concerned with rural development and the evolving nature of the agricultural industry. |
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2007
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Small-scale fisheries: assessing their contribution to rural livelihoods in developing countries. |
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| Traditionally, the contribution, role and importance of small-scale fisheries have often been described in thematic terms such as economic, social, employment and source of food. However, the contributions of small-scale fisheries are often interlinked and interdependent and some of their major contributions lie at the interface between these themes/sectors rather than within each. Also some of the major contributions to (...) |
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FAO Fisheries Circular
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2006
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Rural livelihoods and access to forestresources in Mongolia |
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LSP Working Paper
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2006
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REDUCING POVERTY AND HUNGER:THE CRITICAL ROLE OF FINANCINGFOR FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT |
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Rural non-farm livelihoods in transition economies: emerging issues and policies |
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| This article reviews key conceptual issues related to the development of the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) in a transition context and analyses available empirical evidence on the role of RNFE during recovery from the transition recession. Growth in the RNFE in the transition countries took place during the recession transition which shows that it may be distress driven, but the paper explores other factors which may be (...) |
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EJADE
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2006
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IMPROVING TENURE SECURITY FOR THE RURAL POOR - LEP # 7 |
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| Most of the world’s poor work in the “informal economy” – outside of recognized and enforceable rules. Thus, even though most have assets of some kind, they have no way to document their possessions because they lack formal access to legally recognized tools such as deeds, contracts and permits. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) is the first global anti-poverty initiative focusing on the link between (...) |
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2006
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Education for Rural People: a neglected key to food security |
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| In the world there are approximately 800 million people who live in condition of food insecurity and illiteracy. This paper shows that education is a key to food security for rural populations in developing
countries. Attention is drawn to rural areas because they are traditionally more disadvantaged by national educational policies. The theoretical foundation of this research is that being educated improves rural people’s (...) |
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2006
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Rural women and food security in Asia and the Pacific: Prospects and paradoxes |
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| Asian and Pacific farmers, both men and women, are guardians of biodiversity, household food security and providers of food to urban communities. In these small farm enterprises distinct gender roles and gender differentiated access to technology and resources are evident. This disparity is compounded by the neglect of investment in rural social infrastructures such as education, health care and communications. In such (...) |
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RAP Publication
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2005
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