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Interacting with New Champions
In September, I traveled to Dalian in China to attend the Annual Meeting of the New Champions also known as the “Summer Davos”. The meeting, organized by the World Economic Forum, brought together global leaders from the private and public sector to discuss strategies for mastering sustainable economic growth. In discussions on improving food productivity in developing countries, I focused on five key actions needed to foster new approaches to food security.
Building on the New Role of Agriculture
A lot of focus has been given, in the past couple of years, to how agriculture can have impacts that go beyond economic growth and poverty reduction, to include better health and nutrition and even building resilience to climate change and conflict. In the special “Feeding the World” issue of Theory and Praxis, Clemens Breisinger, Research Fellow at IFPRI and I, discuss the new role of agriculture and recommend how development assistance and national government expenditures can adapt to this new role.
Urgent Actions Needed to Prevent Recurring Food Crises
New IFPRI policy brief outlines seven key measures for the international community Seven key initiatives for preventing a recurring food crisis View more presentations from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Just three years after the 2007-08 food crisis, the food security of poor people and vulnerable groups, especially women and children, is under threat [...]
Role of emerging countries in global food security
Global food insecurity remains a serious problem. In 2010, more than 900 million people are still hungry, and progress toward reaching the first Millennium Development Goal of halving the world’s proportion of malnourished people is off track by a wide margin. But the global environment within which food insecurity persists is changing in important ways. [...]
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