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  • General Information
    2009 Global Hunger Index
    Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) The Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that worldwide progress in reducing hunger remains slow. The 2009 global GHI has fallen by only one quarter from the 1990 GHI. Southeast Asia, the Near East and ...
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    2009 Welthunger-Index
    Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) Die Ergebnisse des Welthunger-Indexes (WHI) zeigen deutlich, dass weiterhin nur geringe Fortschritte bei der globalen Hungerbekämpfung erzielt werden. Die WHI-Werte 2009 sind im Vergleich mit denen ...
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    A framework for seed policy analysis in developing countries.
    The seed industry is crucial to agricultural development. Seed was perhaps the most important form in which the technology of the green revolution was transferred to farmers. As the new biotechnology moves from the laboratory to the field and ...
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    Achieving food security in southern Africa
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    Administering food producer prices in Africa
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    Agricultural policy reforms and regional market integration in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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    Agricultural trade between developing countries
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    Analysis of trends and projections of food production and consumption in Brazil and Nigeria.
    “IFPRI’s food gap studies … aimed at defining the general magnitude, composition, and dynamics of the Third World food problem, have primarily used agricultural data furnished by …( FAO)”—P. vii.
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    Care and nutrition
    Care is the provision in the household and the community of time, attention and support to meet the physical, mental, and social needs of the growing child and other household members. The significance of care has been best articulated in the ...
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    Comparative analyses of nutritional effectiveness of food subsidies and other food-related interventions
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    Comparisons of hunger across states: India State Hunger Index
    The results of the India State Hunger Index 2008 highlight the continued overall severity of the hunger situation in India, while revealing the variation in hunger across states within India. It is indeed alarming that not a single state in India ...
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    Contingency planning for famines and other acute food shortages
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    Demand-side constraints and structural adjustment in Sub-Saharan African countries.
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    Effects of panterritorial pricing policy for maize in Tanzania.
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    Employment for poverty reduction and food security
    Rapid expansion of employment in low-income countries is one of the biggest challenges of development. The growth in labor supply in developing countries will remain large for a long time to come. Incomes of the poor in rural areas will depend ...
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    Enhancing control of highly pathogenic avian influenza in developing countries through compensation
    Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) under current conditions poses a major risk to human and animal health. Efforts to contain the disease are therefore in national and global interest. As the most widely practiced control methods for ...
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    Feeding the world, preventing poverty, and protecting the earth
    ” A 2020 booklet”
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    Fertilizer pricing policy in Bangladesh
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    Food policy reforms in Central Asia
    “Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the countries of the Central Asia region have undertaken varying levels of policy reforms in their food, agricultural, and natural resources sectors. Despite these reforms, available evidence ...
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    Food policy research for developing countries
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    Future directions for Indian irrigation
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    Herausforderung Hunger 2008
    Der Welthunger-Index 2008 (WHI) zeigt, dass die Welt seit 1990 langsame Fortschritte bei der Verbesserung der Ernährungssicherheit gemacht hat, wobei sich je nach Region und Land erhebliche Unterschiede ergeben. In den fast zwei Jahrzehnten seit ...
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    Herausforderung Hunger-Welthungerindex: Fakten, Ursachen, Entwicklungen
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    How Research Can Support Efforts to Control Avian Flu in Developing Countries
    Report of an international consultation—The Research Community’s Response to Avian Influenza, with Special Reference to the Needs of Developing Countries, held 14-16 June 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya—organised by the International ...
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    Identifying the food insecure
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    Improving food security of the poor
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    International agricultural research and human nutrition
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    Issues of infrastructural development
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    Linkages between agriculture and nutrition
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    Mejorando el control de la Gripe Aviar altamente patogénica a través de la compensación
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    Nutrition-related policies and programs
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    Population and food in the early twenty-first century
    The product of a conference leading up to the 2020 Vision initiative, Population and Food in the Early Twenty-First Century offers technical background information on the issues of food and hunger in the coming decades. Here food, agriculture, ...
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    Potential of agricultural exports to finance increased food imports in selected developing countries.
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    Pressures on Europe's Common agricultural policy.
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    Prospects for agricultural production and food deficits in West Asia and North Africa
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    Re-establishing agriculture as a priority for development policy in Sub- Saharan Africa.
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    Reaching sustainable food security for all by 2020
    “As part of its 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has articulated a vision of what the world should look like in 2020: it should be a world free from ...
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    Renforcement du contrôle de la Grippe Aviaire Hautement Pathogène dans les pays en developpement par les mécanismes d'indemnisation
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    The challenge of hunger
    It’s a bitter reality that in a world that is growing closer all the time, hunger, undernutrition, and abject poverty are still rife. The poorest of the poor lack a sufficiently influential voice to make their fundamental concerns be heard. It’s ...
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    The Challenge of Hunger 2007: Global Hunger Index
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    The Challenge of Hunger 2008: Global Hunger Index
    Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) The 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the world has made slow progress in reducing food insecurity since 1990, with dramatic differences among regions and countries. In the nearly two ...
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    The GATT, agriculture, and the developing countries.
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    The role of the World Bank in agricultural development in the 1990s.
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    Trends and prospects for cassava in the developing world.
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    Urban food insecurity and malnutrition in developing countries
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