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AGRA
|
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
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AQIM
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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
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ASCOFAM
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World Association for the Struggle Against Hunger
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AU
|
African Union
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CCC
|
Clean Clothes Campaign
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CIAN
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Conseil Français des Investisseurs en Afrique (French Council of Investors in Africa)
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CODEN
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Comité de Developpement de la Région de N’do (Committee for the Development of the N’do Region), Cameroon
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DPKO
|
UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
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DRC
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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ECOSOC
|
UN Economic and Social Council
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FAO
|
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
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FCI
|
Food Corporation of India
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FIAN
|
FoodFirst Information and Action Network
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FINMA
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Finanzmarktaufsicht (Financial Markets Authority), Switzerland
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G20
|
Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors
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G8
|
Group of Eight (and similarly : G6, G8+5)
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GATT
|
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
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GBD
|
Global Burden of Disease
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GDS
|
Grands Domaines du Sénégal (Large Estates of Senegal)
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ICDs
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Integrated Child Development Centers, India
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ICRC
|
International Committee of the Red Cross
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IFAD
|
International Fund for Agricultural Development
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IFPRI
|
International Food Policy Research Institute
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ILO
|
UN International Labour Organization
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IMF
|
International Monetary Fund
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IRFED
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Institut International de Recherche et Formation Éducation et Développement (International Institute for Research and Training in Education and Development)
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LAP
|
Libyan-African Portfolio, Mali
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LDCs
|
least developed countries
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LEPI
|
Liste Electorale Permanente Informatisee (Computerized Permanent Electoral List), Benin
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MDGs
|
UN Millennium Development Goals
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MST
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Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Rural Workers’ Movement), Brazil
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NGO
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nongovernmental organization
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NKVD
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Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs), the regular and secret police force of the USSR under Stalin ; its successor was the KGB
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OECD
|
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
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OHCHR
|
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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OIC
|
Organization of the Islamic Conference
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OIP
|
UN Office of the Iraq Programme
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PDS
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Public Distribution System (for food), India
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PT
|
Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party), Brazil
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RNS
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Reichsnahrstand (Reich Food Corporation), Nazi Germany
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ROPPA
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Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organizations of West Africa)
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Socapalm
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Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies (Cameroon Palm Plantations Company)
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SOMINA
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Société des Mines d’Azelik (Azelik Mining Company), Niger
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SOSUCAM
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Société Sucrière du Cameroun (Cameroon Sugar Company)
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SS
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Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron or Defence Corps), Nazi paramilitary organization
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SYNPA
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Association Synergie Paysanne (Farmers’ Synergy Association), Bénin
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UNAIDS
|
Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
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UNCTAD
|
UN Conference on Trade and Development
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UNDP
|
UN Development Programme
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UNHRC
|
UN Human Rights Council (formerly UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights)
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UNICEF
|
United Nations Children’s Fund
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UNOHCI
|
UN Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq
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UNRWA
|
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
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VAM
|
Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping, WFP Food Security Analysis Unit
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VAR-Palmares
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Vanguardia Armada Revolucionaria-Palmares (Armed Revolutionary Vanguard-Palmares), Brazil
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WARDA
|
West Africa Rice Development Association (now the Africa Rice Center)
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WEF
|
World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
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WFP
|
UN World Food Programme
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WHO
|
UN World Health Organization
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WMO
|
UN World Meteorological Organization
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