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This baseline report has been developed for an impact evaluation of a social and behaviour change communication (SBCC …) project implemented by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Mozambique's Manica province and funded through the European Union …
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The development and implementation of an efficient institutional food procurement programme (IFPP) - which aims to link … smallholder producers to institutional markets and promote development of food supply systems - is not a simple or straightforward …
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. In a similar vein, public food procurement has also been used to promote a number of positive outcomes. There is growing … interest among countries and international institutions in using public food purchases to promote the integration of … smallholders into markets and strengthen rural livelihoods. Despite the expansion of public food procurement from smallholder …
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developing a range of food procurement initiatives designed to use the regular demand for food on the part of government entities … Food Procurement Programmes (IFPPs)3 - are based on the premise that public institutions, when using their financial … state (McCrudden 2004; De Schutter 2014; Kelly and Swensson 2017). In particular, public food procurement initiatives have …
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farming can be a sustainable way to revitalise agricultural production based on local and diverse food systems. Inclusive … agricultural growth has the potential to reduce rural poverty, mitigate the effects of volatile global food prices and boost the …
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-Saharan African countries, in the fields of social protection and food and nutrition security policies and programmes, have directly … protection and food and nutrition security programmes and instruments inspired and encouraged by the Brazilian experiences, and …
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sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections … the future food requirements, the country shall have to either increase agricultural production, or depend on imports. In …
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the international fruit and vegetable trade could be diminishing as a result of the increasing prevalence of food quality …
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The Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday period is a major sales period for US retailers. Due to higher store traffic, tasks such as restocking shelves, handling customers' questions and inquiries, running cash registers, cleaning, and bagging, become more urgent during holidays. As a result, the...
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The Philippines, a country of great promise in the 1950s, has greatly lagged behind many other Asian countries. Between 1991 and 1994 urban poverty declined from 26% to 29%; but rural poverty virtually stagnated at a much higher rate: 55% and 54%, respectively. Poverty lending programs were...
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