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Greater DFID and EC Leadership on Chronic Malnutrition: Opportunities and Constraints [pdf]  new

The prevention of chronic undernutrition is vital for reducing mortality and morbidity, for economic productivity, and for the respect and protection of human rights. Yet nutrition interventions tend to be low priorities for donors and developing country governments. (Institute of Development Studies (IDS), April 2007)

http://www.ids.ac.uk/UserFiles/File/news/2007/Greater_DFID_EC_Leadership_Chronic_Malnutrition.pdf

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La Viva Campasina : International Peasant Movement  new

The principal objective of La Via Campesina is to develop solidarity and unity among small farmer organizations in order to promote gender parity and social justice in fair economic relations; the preservation of land, water, seeds and other natural resources; food sovereignty; sustainable agricultural production based on small and medium-sized producers.

http://www.viacampesina.org

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Market access and the food crisis  new

This article by Devinder Sharma argues 'While the World Bank and WTO say that more market access in developing countries is the only answer to the global food crisis, the UN's 'Economic and Social Survey 2008' claims market liberalisation has actually contributed to the food crisis.' (InfoChange News & Features, July 2008)

http://infochangeindia.org/200807217224/Agriculture/Analysis/Market-access-and-the-food-crisis.html

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The minimum cost of a healthy diet [pdf]  new

An understanding of the minimum cost of a healthy diet for children could help policy-makers determine how to achieve the best nutritional outcomes for children and families within their programmes.(Save the Children, June 2007)

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/The_Minimum_Cost_of_a_Healthy_Diet_Final.pdf

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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)  pop

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was established in 1975 to identify and analyze policies for sustainably meeting the food needs of the poor in developing countries and to disseminate the results of the research to policymakers and others concerned with food and agricultural policy.

http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/

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"Fair miles"? The concept of "food miles" through a sustainable development lens

The concept of "food miles" presents an argument to buy goods which have travelled the shortest distance from farm to table, and to discriminate against long-haul transportation, especially air-freighted goods, because of its effects on climate change. Much high-value produce from Africa, especially flowers and horticulture, are air-freighted, and are being singled out as the epitome of unsustainable consumption. But from a development and poverty reduction angle, the inclusion of sub-Saharan Africa in these highvalue markets has been a success story. Food miles as a concept is blind to these social and economic benefits associated with trade in food, especially from developing countries, and to the considerable reserves of "ecological space" which sub-Sahanran countries have compared with industrialised countries. (IIED, October 2006)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/11064IIED.pdf

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"You must help"

This article ponders the effects cell phones could have on giving a direct voice to the too-often-forgotton, after a text message from a Somali refugee camp in Kenya to the comfort of the London office of the UN World Food Programme brought the recent cutting of rations to hungry people into sharp focus. (Greg Barrow, Guardian, 20 June 2006)

http://society.guardian.co.uk/aid/comment/0,,1801779,00.html

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Differences in Food Insecurity between Girls and Boys: Evidence from Zimbabwe (pdf)

Results show no gender differences in food insecurity for the children surveyed across all three measures of food insecurity utilized in this paper. While gender still did not matter, there was some evidence that age did, in addition to other household characteristics. (UNU-WIDER Research paper, September 2007)

http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/research-papers/2007/en_GB/rp2007-53/

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Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS)

An Inter-agency initiative to promote information and mapping systems on food insecurity and vulnerability. Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS) are any systems that assemble, analyse and disseminate information on who the food insecure are, where they are located, and why they are food insecure, nutritionally vulnerable or at risk.

http://www.fivims.net/

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The Soy Case

Soy production has been booming the past 25 years. Most of this protein and oil containing bean goes as animal feed to the meat industry in Europe and China. Protein from fish meal has become scarce, other animal sources have been forbidden because of BSE, but the demand for meat is rising rapidly world-wide. As a result of the focus on monoculture export crops, such as soy, millions of people in one of the world's biggest food exporting regions are now suffering from malnutrition. GM-soy is contaminating the countryside and the risen use of pesticides is polluting water and soil. This resource discusses the soy case in Latin America. (A SEED, 2006)

http://aseed.tuxic.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=108

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"Failure as Usual" Food Summit

This ETC Group article argues 'Contrary to the opinion of many, June's Food Summit actually did something. It signaled the beginning of the end for the multilateral system as we know it. Over the next six months the food emergency - and the international institutions designed to address it - could get worse.'

http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=698

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'Safety nets and assets: food aid in Cambodia'

From the Journal of Humanitarian Assistance

http://www.jha.ac/articles/a065.htm

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30 year war creates shadow of hunger over Eritrea

War and drought have reduced this East African country to a state of almost total dependence on food aid. Most of the fertile land was caught up in the conflict with Ethiopia, and now that peace has returned, farmers have found their land covered with land mines and their cattle stolen. This special report by Panos Features says Eritrea is destined to be dependent on food aid for some time to come. (Donica Tesfamariam, Panos, April 2006)

http://www.panos.org.uk/global/featuredetails.asp?featureid=1038&ID=1003

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A Matter of Survival: The North Korean Government's Control of Food and the Risk of Hunger

According to this report, recent decisions by the North Korean government to suspend the operation of the World Food Programme, ban the private sale of grain, and fully reinstate the discredited Public Distribution System could lead to renewed hunger for North Korea's already poor and destitute people. (Human Rights Watch, May 2006)

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/northkorea0506/index.htm

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Abandoned to the famine

The ghost of famine hangs over the Turkana nomads of northern Kenya. Over the whole drought-hit area, stretching into southern Ethiopia, southern Sudan and east into Somalia, people who spend their time moving with the weather from the valley-floor grazing sites to the springs in the hills have lost almost all their livestock. Animals are everything - food, wealth, insurance and savings accounts. Eight million people in this dry triangle are hungry and thirsty. Experts and charity workers believe the nomads' plight in times of natural disaster is exacerbated by wilful neglect of people with no political clout. In this article, we meet some of the people who expect to die. (Tracy McVeigh, Guardian Weekly, June 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/outlook/story/0,,1797399,00.html

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Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger is part of the international network of Action Against Hunger/Action Contre la Faim which provides humanitarian relief in 40 countries worldwide in the sectors of nutrition, health, water and food security. Action contre la Faim intervenes in the following situations ; in natural or man-made crises which threaten food security or result in famine, in situations of social/economic breakdown linked to internal or external circumstances which place particular groups of people in an extremely vulnerable position, in situations where survival depends on humanitarian aid. Whilst continuing to improve knowledge on nutrition, concentrating their efforts more specifically on the concepts of "food security" and "conflict prevention". Both concepts cannot be considered independently from emergency relief.

http://www.aahuk.org/

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Action For Solidarity, Equality, Environment And Diversity (ASEED)

Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Diversity (ASEED) is a network that initiates actions and campaigns on environmental and social justice issues. Our current campaigns are centred on issues surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of food (small, local organic farms instead of agribusiness, biotechnology and supermarkets selling genetically modified food); and the coordination of the World Bank Boycott in Europe. Our main activities are promoting discussion, encouraging positive action, distributing publications and coordinating meetings. We hope we can help you to organise your campaign, contact other useful groups, and find out useful information.

http://www.aseed.net/

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African hunger and GM maize

Author(s): Dickson, D. Produced by: SciDev.Net (2002)**African states should not be ridiculed too hastily for hesitating to accept food containing genetically-modified seeds. But a more rational discourse is needed. At first sight, the initial decision by the leaders of Zimbabwe and Zambia to reject US offers of maize to feed their growing ranks of starving people appears to invite ridicule. Their decision was based on the fact that the food on offer has components that have been genetically modified (GM). But the widely-feared health dangers from consuming such food remain theoretical; not one person is known to have died from doing so. In direct contrast, the imminent starvation faced by 13 million people as a result of a deadly combination of floods and droughts across six states in Southern Africa - Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia - is very real. In such circumstances, the reported statement last week-end by President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia that "we would rather starve than get something toxic" has a ominous echo of earlier remarks by another African leader, Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, about the alleged dangers of widely-accepted drugs used against HIV/AIDS. On closer inspection, however, the decision by Zimbabwe and Zambia begins to lose some of its apparent naivety.

http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readeditorials&itemid=21&language=1

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AgBioIndia

A daily email bulletin examining the politics of food and agriculture

http://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/agbioindia

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Agrarian Reform in the Context of Food Sovereignity, the Right to Food and Cultural Diversity

This paper provides a civil society perspective on agrarian reform and rural development, develop ing the concept of food sovereignty as an overarching framework or paradigm. Food sovereignty essentially defines the policy package that would be needed so that policies of agrarian reform and rural development might truly reduce poverty, protect the environment, and enhance broad based, inclusive economic development. The most fundamental pillars of food sovereignty include the recognition and enforcement of the right to food and the right to land; the right of each nation or people to define their own agricultural and food policies, respecting the right of indigenous peoples to their territories, the rights of traditional fisherfolk to fishing areas, etc.; a retreat from free trade policies, with a concurrent greater prioritization of production of food for local and national markets, and an end to dumping; genuine agrarian reform; and peasant based sustainable, or agroecological, agricultural practices. (International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, January 2006)

http://www.icarrd.org/en/icard_doc_down/Issue_Paper5sum.pdf

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Agri-food Industry's Deadly Cycle Feeds Immigration

Just weeks before the elections, Congress is unable to agree on legislation regarding the nation's 12 million undocumented immigrants. Remarkably, not one single U.S. lawmaker has addressed how US policies force people to cross the border every year looking for work. The region's fragile soils were damaged under the Green Revolution's intensive fertilizer regimes. When the World Bank and the IMF imposed structural adjustment programs in the 1980s, government loans, marketing programs, and agricultural extension services disappeared overnight. Then the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and its Central American cousin, CAFTA, flooded local grain markets with cheap corn, subsidized by U.S. taxpayers and sold below cost of production. Desperate to feed their families, dreaming of a better life, small farmers send their able-bodied family members to the United States to look for work. The lion's share of the remittances they send home is spent on processed food packed with high-calorie corn syrup, produced and distributed by the agri-food industry. (Eric Holt-Gimenez, IRC, 17 October 2006)

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3614

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Agriculture and Development : A summary of the International Assessment on Agricultural Science [pdf]

The report argues that the current system of food production and the way food is traded around the world has led to unequal distribution of benefits and adverse ecological effects. (International Assessment of Agriculture, Science and Technology for Development, April 2008)

http://www.agassessment.org/docs/IAASTD_leaflet_final.pdf

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Agriculture and Food: who benefits from gm crops?

This is an analysis of the global performance of gm crops from 1996-2006 (Friends of the Earth International, January 2007).

http://www.foei.org/en/publications/pdfs/gmcrops2007full.pdf

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Agriculture in Crisis

Oxfam New Zealand, Media Briefing, 28 November 2004. Agriculture is in crisis across most of the world. Oxfam accuses rich countries of making the crisis worse by rigging international trade rules for their own corporate gain and national privilege.

http://www.oxfam.org.nz/MakeTradeFair/AgricultureinCrisisBriefing.htm

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Agro-Commodity Dependence and Recent Trends in Agro-Commodity Markets

This paper examines trends in agro-commodity trade over the decade to 2005, in relation to the patterns of import demand and price trends, globally and in Developing Asia. It also examines the performance of commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs)in agro-commodity trade. It finds that the 'commodity boom' does not extend to agro-commodities, although demand in Developing Asia is becoming an increasingly important factor, at least in less differentiated segments. The agro-commodity trade performance of CDDCs is weak and apparently declining. The paper goes on to discuss reasons for the latter and to suggest policies that may mitigate these trends (Peter Gibbon, DIIS, October 2007).

http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/WP2007/WP%202007-19.web.pdf

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