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Generating food security in the year 2020

Brown, Lynn R.; Feldstein, Hilary Sims; Haddad, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995

Meeting world food needs in the year 2020 will depend even more than it does now on the capabilities and resources of women. Women are responsible for generating food security for their families in many developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Women not only process, purchase,...

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Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

What can be done to increase the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa? This brief …

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Poverty traps: Exploring the complexity of causation

Dasgupta, Partha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

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Assessing Africa's food and nutrition security situation

Benson, Todd - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

, undernutrition underlies around 2.9 million deaths in Africa annually — more than a quarter of all the deaths occurring on the … continent each year. The economic costs of such widespread undernutrition are enormous. This is because the economic growth of … intellectual and technical capacity of its population. But, this in turn depends upon people receiving adequate nutrition …

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How effective are food-for-education programs?:

Adelman, Sarah W.; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Lehrer, Kim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

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Causes of hunger

Cohen, Marc J.; Reeves, Don - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995

The persistence of hunger in a world of plenty is the most profound moral contradiction of our age. Nearly 800 million people in the developing world (20 percent of the total population) are chronically undernourished. At least 2 billion suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Yet since...

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