International Development - Third Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
SUMMARY
Background and Acknowledgements
I. INTRODUCTION
Report outline
II. CRISIS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Across the region
Malawi
Zambia
Lesotho
Mozambique
Swaziland
Southern Africa in context: Over-stretch
for the international humanitarian system?
III. VULNERABLE LIVELIHOODS: FROM SHOCK TO
CRISIS
The vicious circle: Poverty, vulnerability
and crisis
Sources of vulnerability
Governance and policy: From corruption to
liberalization and market failure
Corruption and weak governance
Agricultural liberalisation
Market failure
HIV/AIDS
Shock and crisis
IV. EARLY WARNINGS, INFORMATION, AND DONOR
RESPONSE
Famine Early Warning Systems
Supply-side (Food availability)
Demand-side (Food accessibility and affordability)
The humanitarian response
Fund-raising: Food and non-food aid
Logistics and delivery
Donor-Government relationships, NGOs, and
donor coordination
The politicisation of food aid
DFID's response
Genetically-modified food aid
The humanitarian response: Conclusions and
lessons
V. FROM CRISIS RESPONSE TO FOOD SECURITY
AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
Poverty traps, vulnerability and risk
management
Rural development: Agriculture, safety nets
and opportunity ladders
The role of agriculture in rural development
Safety nets and social protection
Food supplies: School feeding, price
subsidies and grain reserves
Public works programmes
Targeted subsidised inputs
Opportunity ladders
Agricultural inputs: Seeds, fertiliser,
water, land and credit
The role of the Food and Agriculture Organisation
Agricultural outputs: Prices, markets, diversification
and exports
The challenge of HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS and humanitarian assistance
Improving targeting
HIV/AIDS and long-term development
Maintaining agricultural capacity
Maintaining governmental capacity
Anti-retrovirals
Attitudes and behaviours
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis
and malaria
VI. FROM A VICIOUS CIRCLE TO A VIRTUOUS CIRCLE
From a vicious circle to a virtuous circle
Actors, roles and relationships
Governments, markets, the private sector
and NGOs
Donor roles and resources
The World Food Programme and other international
organisations
Unsustainable countries and a regional solution
International development, human rights and
accountability
Accountability and the right to food
Human rights and international development
Lessons
Abbreviations and acronyms
LIST OF MAIN CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Annex: The Southern African Humanitarian
Crisis of 2002-03: A Chronology
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO
THE REPORT
LIST OF WITNESSES
LIST OF MEMORANDA INCLUDED IN THE MINUTES
OF EVIDENCE
LIST OF APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
LIST OF UNPRINTED MEMORANDA AND PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SELECT COMMITTEE
PUBLICATIONS IN THE CURRENT PARLIAMENT
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 116-II)
APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 116-II)
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