628 research outputs found
Impacts of reducing food loss and waste on food prices and farm incomes
No full textSuzanne Thornsbury, chief of the Crops Branch in the Market and Trade Economics Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, served as moderator for a panel on the impacts of food loss and waste on food prices and farm incomes.Non-PRIFPRI5; CRP2; 3 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems, and Food IndustryMTID; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
2019 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions
No full textMore than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above). The worst food crises in 2018 were, in order of severity, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Sudan, South Sudan and northern Nigeria. These eight countries accounted for two thirds of the total number of people facing acute food insecurity - amounting to nearly 72 million people. Countries in Africa remained disproportionally affected by acute food insecurity The figure of 113 million people represents a slight improvement over the number for 2017 presented in last year’s report, in which an estimated 124 million people in 51 countries faced acute hunger. Despite the slight decrease, over the past three years, the report has consistently shown that, year on year, more than 100 million people (2016, 2017 and 2018) have faced periods of acute hunger. The modest decrease between 2017 and 2018 is largely attributed to changes in climate shocks. A number of highly exposed countries did not experience the intensity of climate-related shocks and stressors that they had experienced in 2017 when they variously faced severe drought, flooding, rains, and temperature rises brought on by the El Niño of 2015-16. This includes countries in southern and eastern Africa, the Horn of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Asia-Pacific region. An additional 143 million people in a subset of 42 countries were found to be living in Stressed conditions (IPC Phase 2). At the cusp of acute hunger, they risked slipping into Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) if faced with a shock or stressor. High levels of acute and chronic malnutrition in children living in emergency conditions remained of grave concern. The immediate drivers of undernutrition include poor dietary intake and disease. Mothers and caregivers often face challenges in providing children with the key micronutrients they need at critical growth periods in food crises. This is reflected in the dismally low number of children consuming a minimum acceptable diet in most of the countries profiled in this report.Non-PRIFPRI2MTI
From small farms to big cities: Leveraging food systems and rural-urban linkages for ending hunger and malnutrition
No full textTwo 2017 IFPRI and FAO reports suggest that strengthening food supply chains can immensely contribute to ending malnutrition and reducing poverty. Our author explains the complex interdependencies between rural and urban regions.Non-PRIFPRI3; GFPR; CRP2; 3 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems, and Food Industry; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; UNFSSMTID; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains
No full textThe global food system is malfunctioning, leaving large segments of the population undernourished or malnourished, and causing large environmental damage. Food losses in the production, processing and marketing parts of the food systems are part of the problem. Food wasting at the retail, household and restaurant levels is a serious problem too. The analyses and calls for action in this volume are motivated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 12, i.e. Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns, and specifically, “By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses”. This goal is very much in line with the Encyclical Laudato Si’, where Pope Francis calls for changes to overcome the “throwaway culture”. Food Loss and Waste (FLAW) is a moral issue because of the adverse effects on people and our planet. It is detrimental to the planet due to greenhouse gas emissions and the wasting of the water and land used as inputs, and to people – the poor in particular – whose labor is squandered and whose livelihoods are compromised when FLAW occurs.PRIFPRI4; CRP2; 3 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems, and Food IndustryMTID; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
2020 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions: September update in times of COVID‑19
No full textThe GRFC 2020 reported the highest global number of acutely food-insecure people on record. It revealed that in 2019, some 135 million in 55 countries and territories were in need of urgent food, livelihood and nutrition assistance as a result of conflict, weather extremes, economic shocks, or a combination of all three drivers. This figure reflected not only worsening levels of acute food insecurity in many countries, but also the wider availability of food security data, including in previously inaccessible areas or in contexts that had previously yielded poor-quality data. In these 55 food crisis countries and territories, an estimated 75 million children were stunted and 17 million were suffering from acute wasting. Food insecurity and limited access to well functioning health, WASH and social protection systems increase the risk of malnutrition for the most vulnerable. This GRFC 2020 September update in times of COVID‑19 provides acute food insecurity data for 26 countries identified in the GRFC 2020 and also includes Togo in the report for the first time. The cut-off date for the information and data used to prepare this report was 30 September 2020.Non-PRIFPRI2MTI
Climate change and food system sustainability: Challenges and solutions
No full textNon-PRIFPRI5; CRP2MTID; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
Financing sustainable development: Shall we throw more money at the problem or start with doing better with existing resources?
No full textReforming development assistance and debt relief have been main threads in Geske Dijkstra’s notable professional career. We worked together on those issues over two decades ago while we were both at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS). Plus ça change? Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic lowincome countries have been hit hard economically; first by the global recession induced by the public health related lockdowns, then by spikes in food, fuel and fertilizer prices associated with the recovery from the recession and pandemicrelated supply disruptions, and subsequently by further surges in food and fertilizer prices with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. The capacity of poor nations’ governments to protect the livelihoods of their populations from the impacts of the multiple crises quickly eroded. Bilateral development assistance failed to come to a rescue, multilateral contingency financing mechanisms proved inadequate and fraught with old-fashioned, ill-conceived policy conditionality, and the lack of proper sovereign debt work-out mechanisms was painfully felt again as the number of low-income countries facing severe debt distress doubled during these years of crisis. Proper reforms on all these dimensions remain an unfinished agenda. In addition, yet another looming global crisis – climate change – is calling for transformative investments in production systems to stave off this existentialist threat and to set economies on sustainable development pathways. The calls for transformative change come with massive needs for additional (development) finance in magnitudes of hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of US dollars per year over the next couple of decades. However, the prospects for mobilizing new funding in such magnitude seem elusive if only considering the experience with creating new facilities for climate finance.PRIFPRI4; 5 Strengthening Institutions and GovernanceMarkets, Trade, and Institutions (MTI); Food and Nutrition Polic
Illusions and disillusions with poverty reduction strategies: Growth, crisis and the MDGs in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua
No full textNon-PRIFPRI4; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural EconomiesMarkets, Trade, and Institutions (MTI); Food and Nutrition Policy29 page
Agriculture, the rural sector, and development
No full textThis chapter re-examines Asia’s agricultural and rural transformations in the context of economy-wide structural change. It focuses on the different pathways Asian societies have taken in terms of agricultural transitions; transformation of food systems with rising incomes and urbanization; infrastructure development to forge rural–urban linkages; and implications of broader structural economic transformations, with the objective of identifying the factors of cumulative causation explaining why development accelerated in one part of the region and lagged in another. In light of the review of evidence presented in this chapter, lessons will be drawn as to how to address today’s challenges for the development of Asia’s agriculture and food systems and possible pathways for more inclusive and sustainable rural transformations in the coming decades.PRIFPRI4; 3 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems, and Food Industry; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; UNFSSMTI
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