Category: Food Security
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Why We Don’t Teach People to Fish
By John Coonrod “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.” – Chinese Proverb This proverb leaps to mind whenever we think of efforts to end hunger. Yet it is surprisingly and dangerously misleading. Most of the hungriest parts…
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What constitutes an enabling environment for the poor to succeed in their own development?
Working paper for a National Strategy Forum, April 1994, Dhaka, Bangladesh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework that will facilitate the participants in the upcoming strategic forum to identify new openings for action to provide an enabling environment for the poor. As will be shown below, the lack of a…
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Planning-in-Action: an innovative approach to human development
The Hunger Project, March 1991 In November and December of 1990, The Hunger Project was privileged to work in collaboration with the Planning Commission of India to pioneer an innovative approach to the process of planning. Specifically, this approach is designed to accelerate progress in the field of human development and bring about the end…