Food policy
How agriculture and farming is understood in different policy frameworks and institutions at national, regional and global levels; what has been the impact of reform and what changes should be a priority for the future?
Latest Documents
- Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition
- S. Wiggins; S. Keats / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?" Potentially, smallholder agricultur...
- Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India
- V. Kumar / Young Lives, 2012
- Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity...
- Pakistan is a food sufficient country but a lot of the population is undernourished
- M.K. Bashir; S. Schilizzi; R. Pandit / AgEcon Search, 2012
- Pakistan is one of the leading producers of important agricultural commodities in the world with a relatively high proportion of undernourished population (26 %). This study aims to examine the food security trends in Pakistan in gene...
- Potential policy interventions to mitigate the effects of food price shocks: a case study of Afghanistan
- A. D’Souza / AgEcon Search, 2012
- Food price shocks can exacerbate chronically low levels of nutrient intake in countries with large populations living in poverty with generally poor diets. This paper examines the case of Afghanistan in the 2007/08 season, when rapid ...
- Evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and policy driven options to address the emerging challenges
- M. H. Glantz; R. Gommes; S. Ramasamy / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food ...
- The Arab Spring indicates that riots and food prices are closely linked
- M. Lagi; K.Z. Bertrand; Y. Bar-Yam / New England Complex Systems Institute, 2011
- It is noticeable that despite the many possible contributing factors, the timing of violent protests in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011 as well as earlier riots in 2008 coincides with large peaks in global food prices. This p...
- Food aid is participating in the rise of hunger - WFP should become a World Relief Program
- A. Mittal / The Oakland Institute, 2005
- Food aid has been ‘cheap’ aid, expected to serve domestic interests and to fight hunger at the same time. This paper argues that apart from specific disaster situations, this does not work. The author claims that food aid ...
- Current food policy issues and areas that require attention
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- 2011 saw significantly increased support of agriculture and food policy as tools for global poverty reduction. It also brought serious challenges, most notably in the form of food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, famine, unre...
- Food insecurity in Jamaica and St Lucia - is it a matter of unhealthy dietary patterns?
- P. Karfakis; C.R. Løvendal; K.T. Jakobsen / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
- The food systems and the nature of food security problems in the Caribbean countries are gradually changing. This paper explores two different aspects of food security, namely undernourishment and overweight in the two Caribbean Islan...
- Women, food security and agriculture in a global marketplace: A significant shift
- R. Mehra; M. Hill Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2008
- New directions in development assistance and agricultural investments must recognize and support women's involvement in the full agricultural value chain from production to processing to marketing. This report reviews current thinking...
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