World Food Situation

Author : Jennifer Clapp,Marc J. Cohen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1554581982

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The Global Food Crisis by Jennifer Clapp,Marc J. Cohen Pdf

The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world’s poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture. In this volume, policy-makers and scholars assess the causes and consequences of the most recent food price volatility and examine the associated governance challenges and opportunities, including short-term emergency responses, the ecological dimensions of the crisis, and the longer-term goal of building sustainable global food systems. The recommendations include vastly increasing public investment in small-farm agriculture; reforming global food aid and food research institutions; establishing fairer international agricultural trade rules; promoting sustainable agricultural methods; placing agriculture higher on the post-Kyoto climate change agenda; revamping biofuel policies; and enhancing international agricultural policy-making. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Author : Joachim von Braun
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896295308

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The World Food Situtation by Joachim von Braun Pdf

The world food situation is currently being rapidly redefined by new driving forces. Income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are transforming food consumption, production, and markets. The influence of the private sector in the world food system, especially the leverage of food retailers, is also rapidly increasing. Changes in food availability, rising commodity prices, and new producer-consumer linkages have crucial implications for the livelihoods of poor and food-insecure people. Analyzing and interpreting recent trends and emerging challenges in the world food situation is essential in order to provide policymakers with the necessary information to mobilize adequate responses at the local, national, regional, and international levels. It is also critical for helping to appropriately adjust research agendas in agriculture, nutrition, and health. Not surprisingly, renewed global attention is being given to the role of agriculture and food in development policy, as can be seen from the World Bank's World Development Report, accelerated public action in African agriculture under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), and the Asian Development Bank's recent initiatives for more investment in agriculture, to name just a few examples.

Author : Sayed Marei
Publisher : London : Longman
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3786158

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The World Food Crisis by Sayed Marei Pdf

Author : Pierre R. Crosson,Kenneth D Frederick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317371137

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The World Food Situation by Pierre R. Crosson,Kenneth D Frederick Pdf

At the beginning of the 1970’s, global grain reserves were level and food prices were low however as the decade progressed crop production plummeted leading to a food crisis. Originally published in the aftermath in 1977, Crosson and Frederick set out to explore the ability of agricultural output to meet the global food demands of future generations. This study analyses how resources and environmental factors would affect food production in developing countries and the United States until the end of the 21st Century. The environmental impacts of land levels, fertiliser and pesticide use are explored in relation to the challenges of meeting food demands. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies.

Author : Julian Cribb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520271234

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The Coming Famine by Julian Cribb Pdf

Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth

Author : McDermott, John,Swinnen, Johan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896294226

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COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later by McDermott, John,Swinnen, Johan Pdf

Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve. The impacts of the pandemic are likely to endure for years to come, with poor, marginalized, and vulnerable groups the most affected. In COVID-19 & Global Food Security: Two Years Later, the editors bring together contributions from new IFPRI research, blogs, and the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub to examine the pandemic’s effects on poverty, food security, nutrition, and health around the world. This volume presents key lessons learned on food security and food system resilience in 2020 and 2021 and assesses the effectiveness of policy responses to the crisis. Looking forward, the authors consider how the pandemic experience can inform both recovery and longer-term efforts to build more resilient food systems.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Microbial Threats
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309259361

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Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach by Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Microbial Threats Pdf

Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the United States, food-borne agents affect 1 out of 6 individuals and cause approximately 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths each year. This figure likely represents just the tip of the iceberg, because it fails to account for the broad array of food-borne illnesses or for their wide-ranging repercussions for consumers, government, and the food industry-both domestically and internationally. A One Health approach to food safety may hold the promise of harnessing and integrating the expertise and resources from across the spectrum of multiple health domains including the human and veterinary medical and plant pathology communities with those of the wildlife and aquatic health and ecology communities. The IOM's Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop on December 13 and 14, 2011 that examined issues critical to the protection of the nation's food supply. The workshop explored existing knowledge and unanswered questions on the nature and extent of food-borne threats to health. Participants discussed the globalization of the U.S. food supply and the burden of illness associated with foodborne threats to health; considered the spectrum of food-borne threats as well as illustrative case studies; reviewed existing research, policies, and practices to prevent and mitigate foodborne threats; and, identified opportunities to reduce future threats to the nation's food supply through the use of a "One Health" approach to food safety. Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop Summary covers the events of the workshop and explains the recommendations for future related workshops.

Author : Christopher Rosin,Paul Stock,Hugh Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136529412

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Food Systems Failure by Christopher Rosin,Paul Stock,Hugh Campbell Pdf

This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population. A key aspect of this failure is identified in the neoliberal strategies which emphasize industrial efficiencies, commodity production and free trade-ideologies that underlie agricultural and food policies in what are frequently referred to as 'developed countries'. The book examines both the contradictions in the global food system as well as the implications of existing ideologies of production associated with commodity industrial agriculture using evidence from relevant international case studies. The book's first section presents the context of the food crisis with contributions from leading international academics and food policy activists, including climate scientists, ecologists and social scientists. These contributions identify current contradictions in policy and practice that impede solutions to the food crisis. Set within this context, the second section assesses current conditions in the global food system, including economic viability, sustainability and productivity. Case study analyses of regions exposed to neoliberal policy at the production end of the system provide insights into both current challenges to feeding the world, as well as alternative strategies for creating a more just and moral food system.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Board on Global Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309151955

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Mitigating the Nutritional Impacts of the Global Food Price Crisis by Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Board on Global Health Pdf

In 2007 and 2008, the world witnessed a dramatic increase in food prices. The global financial crisis that began in 2008 compounded the burden of high food prices, exacerbating the problems of hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. The tandem food price and economic crises struck amidst the massive, chronic problem of hunger and undernutrition in developing countries. National governments and international actors have taken a variety of steps to mitigate the negative effects of increased food prices on particular groups. The recent abrupt increase in food prices, in tandem with the current global economic crisis, threatens progress already made in these areas, and could inhibit future efforts. The Institute of Medicine held a workshop, summarized in this volume, to describe the dynamic technological, agricultural, and economic issues contributing to the food price increases of 2007 and 2008 and their impacts on health and nutrition in resource-poor regions. The compounding effects of the current global economic downturn on nutrition motivated additional discussions on these dual crises, their impacts on the nutritional status of vulnerable populations, and opportunities to mitigate their negative nutritional effects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Food supply
ISBN : UOM:39015054074383

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The World Food Situation: A hungry world. Johnson, D.G. World food problems and prospects. Research to meet U.S. and world food needs I-II. Report of the Working Conference on Research to Meet U.S. and World Food Needs. Report to the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251305720

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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.

Author : Kenneth R. Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112019015707

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World Food Situation and Prospects by Kenneth R. Farrell Pdf

This report is a condensation of remarks by Kenneth R. Farrell, administrator, Economics, Statistics and Cooperation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at the Festival on Religion and Rural life held in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 31 - August 3, 1978.

Author : United States. Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Food supply
ISBN : HARVARD:32044057343352

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World Food Situation by United States. Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations Pdf

Author : Kenneth R. Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Food conservation
ISBN : IND:30000090117122

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World Food Situation and Prospects by Kenneth R. Farrell Pdf

This report is a condensation of remarks by Kenneth R. Farrell, administrator, Economics, Statistics and Cooperation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at the Festival on Religion and Rural life held in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 31 - August 3, 1978.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UCR:31210024922963

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The World Food Situation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf