This paper explains that given that many countries in the East and Central Africa region face similar agro-ecological, climatic, and development challenges, relying on national research and development (R&D) programs is inefficient and costly. Instead, it would be more economical through the regionalisation of R&D. The authors present various approaches to do this, including the use of spatial analysis and Dream modeling software and highlight that the regionalization of R&D could result in larg more...
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The overall purpose of this paper is to address food security and poverty reduction in the face of climate change and energy security. It attempts to bring to the fore food security threats associated with climate change in the food production and supply environments, as well as the broader livelihood and ecological changes that will occur as a consequence. Recognizing the different geographical regions around the Pacific and how climate change would impact on their food security situations open more...
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WFP food aid has literally give Keut Chreul a new lease of life. Today, Keut Chreul sells books and postcards about the fabled ruins of Angkor Wat. Flush with the money earned, he will pack up his wares and wheel his mobile bookstall home, where his wife and children are waiting for him for the evening meal. It is hard to believe that just a year ago, Chreul, 35, was almost dead. A beggar in the streets of Siem Reap town, he was often found lying on the sidewalk, exhausted by the ravages of AIDS more...
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World Food Programme Briefing Paper. Often neglected, food security and nutrition are critical for individuals, households and communities affected by HIV. Lack of food security and poor nutritional status may hasten progression to AIDS-related illnesses and undermine adherence and response to
antiretroviral therapy. HIV infection itself undermines food security and nutrition by reducing work capacity and jeopardizing household livelihoods. HIV impairs nutritional status by undermining the immu more...
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The mandate of the SCN is to promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner organizations in support of community, national, regional, and international efforts to end malnutrition in all of its forms in this generation. It will do this by refining the direction, increasing the scale and strengthening the coherence and impact of actions against malnutrition world wide, and raise awareness of nutrition problems and mobilize commitment to solve them at global, regional and national levels.
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Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV, produced by WFP and FANTA in collaboration with Technical Assistance to NGOs (TANGO) International, is a new guide to improve the design and implementation of food security programmes that respond to HIV-related challenges as well as HIV programs that utilise food and food-related activities to achieve HIV-related outcomes.
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Addressing food security and nutrition in all settings is vital to achieving the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010, to which all Member States of the United Nations have committed themselves.This policy brief highlights actions
that governments, civil society and international partners can take to promote food security and nutrition in the context of the AIDS epidemic.
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