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While rural households in developing countries deploy a series of risk coping strategies to insulate against shocks, their effectiveness relies extraordinarily on the nature of the shocks.
This paper seeks to enhance our understanding of resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining initiatives to enhance resilience capacity that are designed and implemented by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
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Resilience and pastoralism in Africa south of the Sahara, with a particular focus on the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, West Africa
Recently there has been a great deal of interest in applying the concept of resilience to pastoral systems and to development programs in pastoral systems.
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Understanding resilience for food and nutrition security
This paper provides a structured overview of the concept of resilience for use in discussions surrounding food security and nutrition.
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Resilience and social capital
Increasingly, resilience is being incorporated into planning and social protection policy.
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Capacity development for resilient food systems: Issues, approaches, and knowledge gaps
Conceptual framework for assessing capacity of a food system to become more resilient.
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Are shocks really increasing? A selective review of the global frequency, severity, scope, and impact of five types of shocks
Recent policy statements refer to increasingly frequent and intense shocks as one of the main reasons for focusing attention and investments on building resilience for food and nutrition security.
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Building resilience to conflict through food security policies and programs: Evidence from four case studies
Food insecurity at the national and household level not only is a consequence of conflict but can also cause and drive conflicts.
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Measuring resilience in a volatile world: A proposal for a multicountry system of sentinel sites
We propose the development of a multicountry system of high-frequency, long-term sentinel sites in the world’s most vulnerable regions.
An emerging literature shows how the mass arrival of refugees induces both short- and long-term consequences to hosting countries.
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Enhancing resilience in the horn of Africa
In 2011, the Horn of Africa faced the worst drought in 60 years, leading to emergency food insecurity levels in Kenya and Ethiopia and famine in Somalia.
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R&D agricole : investir pour l’avenir de l’Afrique; tendances, défis et opportunités
La promesse et les défis inhérents au développement du secteur agricole en Afrique subsaharienne ont incité à l’organisation de la conférence intitulée « R&D agricole : Investir pour l’avenir de l’Afrique – tendances, défis et opportunités ».
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Agricultural R&D: investing in Africa’s future analyzing trends, challenges, and opportunities
The goal of the conference was to define a road map for revitalizing agricultural research in the region focusing on four principal themes: -sustainable financing of agricultural research; -training the next generation of agricultural scientists;
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Producer funding of R&D in Africa
Innovation in natural resource management and agriculture—and in agribusiness, in particular—critically depends on the ability of interlinked actors to generate and access new knowledge, and to adapt such knowledge to their own specific circumstances
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Government funding for agricultural R&D
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Nationally financed agricultural research
The national budget process is an important factor in a government’s ability to implement development plans.