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Research report

Climate Shocks, Food and Nutrition Security: Evidence from the Young Lives cohort study

11/09/2014

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56 pages long

Languages: English

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Many people living in poor communities in Ethiopia, Andhra Pradesh (India), Peru and Vietnam experience climatic shocks such as droughts and floods, and many face episodes of food insecurity. To understand better the links between the two types of shocks, Oxfam commissioned research from the Young Lives international cohort study of childhood poverty. This report […]

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Journal article

‘Risky lives’: risk and protection for children growing-up in poverty

01/06/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Child protection has focused on responding to interpersonal violence and abuse. This approach can detach children from the broader socio-economic and political structures which shape their life chances, by concentrating on the symptoms of risk rather than the underlying causes. Drawing on the Young Lives study of childhood poverty, this paper argues that poverty and […]

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