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The G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Burkina Faso 22/05/2014 2 documents 14 pages long Languages: English, French Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance Food security Investment NASAN New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Smallholder agriculture World Bank and IMF World Trade Organisation WTO Overview Launched by the G8 two years ago, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NASAN) aims to improve food security in 10 African countries through attracting private investors into agriculture. However, in Burkina Faso, implementation of the New Alliance risks harming rather than helping family farming and food security. Burkina Faso is deregulating its […] View resource Case study The Yemen cash transfer programme: How Oxfam used social welfare fund lists and the Post Office system to distribute funds and rebuild donor trust 25/09/2013 1 documents 8 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Cash transfers Finance Livelihoods Local Government Media Welfare Wellbeing World Trade Organisation WTO Overview In October 2011, Oxfam partnered with the Social Welfare Fund and the Post Office in Al Hodeidah governorate in Yemen to deliver cash transfers to vulnerable households during a period of worsening food crisis. With other donors stalling and expressing a lack of trust in this approach, the Oxfam team had to work hard to […] View resource Research report Applying Cost Benefit Analysis at a Community Level: A review of its use for community based climate and disaster risk management 01/03/2013 3 documents 45 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Cash transfers Climate change adaptation Climate finance Community building Corporate responsibility Debt Debt relief Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Disasters Drought DRR Economic growth Finance Green Climate Fund Housing Programme management Reconstruction Research methods Sustainable livelihoods approach Welfare Wellbeing World Bank and IMF World Trade Organisation WTO Overview This report reviews 23 studies that have applied cost benefit analysis (CBA) to assess community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation projects. The review shows that CBA at a community level is adding value to our understanding of the effectiveness of efforts to reduce climate and disaster risk. The report concludes with key messages emerging from […] View resource Book Be Outraged: There are alternatives 21/05/2012 1 documents 72 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Civil society Corporate responsibility Debt Debt relief Social protection World Bank and IMF World Trade Organisation WTO Overview An international group of economists and social scientists argue in this book that austerity is bad economics, bad arithmetic, and ignores the lessons of history. They are outraged at the narrow range of austerity policies which are bringing so many people around the world to their knees, especially in Europe. ‘Be Outraged’ argues that austerity […] View resource Research report Impact of Price Hikes on the Lives and Livelihoods of Poor People in Viet Nam: A follow-up activity to the participatory poverty monitoring initiative 04/05/2010 1 documents 84 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Financial crisis Livelihoods Participation World Trade Organisation WTO Overview In January 2007, Viet Nam was admitted as the 150th member country of the WTO. It was widely recognised that this would bring many new opportunities to Viet Nam, but would also pose many challenges, especially in ensuring that the full benefits of WTO membership are shared by the whole of Viet Nam’s population, including […] View resource Briefing paper Empty Promises: What happened to ‘development’ in the WTO’s Doha Round? 16/07/2009 6 documents 38 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Trade policy World Trade Organisation WTO Overview The Doha Development Round was meant to rebalance decades of unfair rules in agriculture and address the needs of developing countries. Instead, the negotiations have betrayed this promise. The trade Round has become a market access negotiation, in which developing countries are expected to give disproportionately more and will receive little but stale promises of […] View resource Briefing note Square Pegs in Round Holes: How the Farm Bill squanders chances for a pro-development trade deal 21/07/2008 1 documents 15 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Trade policy World Trade Organisation WTO Overview When trade ministers from 35 countries gather in Geneva at the World Trade Organization [WTO] for what is being billed yet again as a last-ditch attempt to forge a Doha trade deal, they will be forced to meet an unwelcome guest: the 2008 US Farm Bill. With a host of newly bolstered subsidies that will […] View resource Case study Reflections on Community Based Coastal Resources Management (CB-CRM) in the Philippines and South-East Asia 14/06/2008 1 documents 11 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Civil society Food security FP2P From Poverty to Power World Trade Organisation WTO Overview Small-scale fishing is an important source of food and livelihoods for millions of rural poor people in South-East Asia. Yet fisheries management has tended to diminish access of the rural poor to fishing grounds in favour of commercial operations. This paper describes how civil society action was instrumental in creating change in national fisheries policies […] View resource Briefing paper Getting the Fundamentals Right: The early stages of Afghanistan’s WTO accession process 28/06/2007 5 documents 42 pages long Languages: English, French, Pashto, Persian, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Trade policy World Trade Organisation WTO Overview Afghanistan should be in no rush to join the World Trade Organisation. Rapid accession would have few benefits and could undermine efforts to reduce poverty. Careful planning and negotiation is the only way to avoid onerous commitments that have been forced on other very poor countries and to make the best of the potential benefits […] View resource Briefing note A Matter of Political Will: How the European Union can maintain market access for African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in the absence of Economic Partnership Agreements 27/04/2007 1 documents 21 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance Trade policy World Trade Organisation WTO Overview The European Commission has threatened 76 of the world’s poorest countries with lower access to the EU market – if they fail to sign new trade deals known as Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) by the end of 2007, when their current market access preferences expire. But the threats are not justified: in the event that […] View resource Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 … Page 8 Next page Spotted an error? 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