IFPRI Global Food Policy Reports
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Item Regional Developments: Food Policy Taking Shape at the Local Level(Book Chapter, 2012) International Food Policy Research InstituteItem Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots(Book Chapter, 2012) Pandya-Lorch, Rajul; Fritschel, Heidi; Karelina, Zhenya; Yosef, SivanThe agriculture, nutrition, and health nexus came to prominence in 2011. With 1 billion people continuing to suffer from food insecurity, and with vitamin and mineral deficiencies compromising the nutrition and health of billions of people, the international development community began to ask how much more could agriculture do to improve human wellbeing if it explicitly included nutrition and health goals? What kind of changes could maximize agriculture’s contribution to human health and nutrition, and how could improved human health and nutrition contribute to a more productive and sustainable agricultural system?Item New Players: Stepping into the Global Food System(Book Chapter, 2012) Chen, Kevin Z.; Joshi, Pramod KumarItem Land Degradation: Land under Pressure(Book Chapter, 2012) Nkonya, Ephraim M.; Koo, Jawoo; Marenya, Paswel; Licker, RachelIn 2011 two United Nations bodies adopted ambitious goals for halting land degradation and achieving sustainable development. These goals will be difficult, but not impossible, to meet. The evidence presented here suggests several avenues for achieving a world with no land degradation. First, efforts to promote sustainable land management need to improve local and national governance while also enhancing international cooperation. Second, instead of focusing solely on fertilizer subsidies, countries should use broader and more cost-effective incentives to encourage farmers to adopt integrated soil fertility management.Item Overview: Major Food Policy Developments in 2011(Book Chapter, 2012) Fan, ShenggenItem Disasters: Déjà vu in the Horn of Africa(Book Chapter, 2012) Headey, Derek D.Item Climate Change and Agriculture: Modest Advances, Stark New Evidence(Book Chapter, 2012) Nelson, Gerald C.; Olofinbiyi, TolulopeItem Biofuels, Environment, and Food: The Story Gets More Complicated(Book Chapter, 2012) Laborde Debucquet, David; Msangi, SiwaItem Food Prices: Riding the Rollercoaster(Book Chapter, 2012) Torero, MáximoItem Looking ahead: Scenarios for the future of food(Book Chapter, 2013) Rosegrant, Mark W.; Tokgoz, Simla; Bhandary, Prapti; Msangi, SiwaItem Regional developments: Policy choices on the ground(Book Chapter, 2013) International Food Policy Research InstituteItem US and EU farm policies: The subsidy habit(Book Chapter, 2013) Bureau, Jean-Christophe; Laborde Debucquet, David; Orden, DavidItem Food policy 2012: Walk the talk(Book Chapter, 2013) Fan, ShenggenItem Agricultural productivity: A changing global harvest(Book Chapter, 2013) Fuglie, Keith O.; Nin-Pratt, AlejandroIn 1961 the world was feeding 3.5 billion people by cultivating 1.37 billion hectares of land. A half century later, the world population had doubled to 7 billion while land under cultivation increased by only 12 percent to 1.53 billion hectares. How, then, did agricultural production triple? By increasing productivity. By getting more output from existing resources, global agriculture has grown, proving wrong past concerns that the world’s population would exceed its food supply. In fact, at the global level, the long-run trend since at least 1900 has been one of increasing food abundance: in inflation-adjusted dollars, food prices fell by an average of 1 percent per year over the course of the 20th century (Figure 1). But then, over the past decade, something changed.Item Employment in agriculture: Jobs for Africa’s youth(Book Chapter, 2013) Brooks, Karen; Zorya, Sergiy; Gautam, AmyAfrica south of the Sahara has the world’s fastest growing population and the youngest. By 2050 the subcontinent, with its projected 1.7 billion people, will be the second most populous region in the world, after South Asia, and the only region in which the rural population will still be growing. Between 2010 and 2050 other regions will experience a significant decrease in rural population (which will fall by 50 percent in East Asia, 45 percent in Europe, and 10 percent in South Asia), while Africa south of the Sahara will add an estimated 150 million people in rural areas (an increase of nearly 30 percent). The young people yet to be born are in addition to the 330 million already present and about to enter the labor force, of whom 195 million live in rural areas.1 As Figure 1 shows, the number of people entering rural labor markets each year is projected to increase until at least 2035.Item Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap(Book Chapter, 2013) Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.; Quisumbing, Agnes R.Item Green economy: Sustainable and growing, but also food secure?(Book Chapter, 2013) Desai, Nitin; Ringler, ClaudiaItem Conflict and food insecurity: How do we break the links?(Book Chapter, 2015-03-18) Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Trinh Tan, Jean-FrançoisFood and nutrition insecurity are becoming increasingly concentrated in conflict-affected countries, affecting millions of people. Policies and interventions that build resilience to these shocks have the power to not only limit the breadth and depth of conflict and violence around the world, but also strengthen national-level governance systems and institutions.Item An ambitious development goal: Ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025(Book Chapter, 2014) Fan, Shenggen; Polman, PaulMuch attention in 2013 was devoted to considering what should follow the Millennium Development Goals, which will come to an end in 2015. This chapter calls for prioritizing the elimination of hunger and undernutrition globally by 2025 and discusses what it will take to achieve that goal.Item Agricultural R&D: Is Africa investing enough?(Book Chapter, 2014) Beintema, Nienke M.; Stads, Gert-JanGiven the goals of economic growth and poverty reduction, as well as the challenges of rapid population growth, climate change, and food price volatility, Africa south of the Sahara must invest in research and development (R&D) to boost agricultural productivity. This chapter provides a data-driven analysis of the region’s recent progress in investing in financial resources and human resource capacity related to agricultural R&D.