Presented by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 12, 2016. More info: http://www.ifpri.org/event/geneva-launch-ifpris-2016-global-food-policy-report

1. APRIL 12, 2016 | GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
Shenggen Fan
Director General, IFPRI

2. Looking back at 2015
Sustainable Development
Goals
Global goals that call for local
action
COP21
Commitments to slow
GHG emissions
WTO ministerial
meeting
Pledged to eliminate
distortionary trade
policies
Low oil & food prices
Oil: Lowest in 11 years
Food: Falling fourth year in a row
Refugee crisis
More migration from
Afghanistan, Eritrea,
Myanmar, Syria
+
Slow economic growth
Driven by slowdown in
emerging economies
2015Climate change
El Niño: Ethiopia’s worst
drought in 30 years

3. Regional and national developments
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
• Persistent conflict in Syria
• Rising prevalence of overnutrition
SOUTH ASIA
• Bangladesh: New nutrition, food safety
policy
• India: New sanitation, irrigation program
AFRICA
• 18 countries achieved poverty MDG
• El Niño; Conflicts in Nigeria, Somalia,
South Sudan
LATIN AMERICA & CARRIBBEAN
• Poverty & hunger MDGs achieved
• Increasing overweight, obesity
EAST ASIA
• China: New food safety regulation
• Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank established

4. A new global food system for meeting
multiple SDGs
New food system
Efficient
Inclusive
Climate-smart
Sustainable
Nutrition- and health-
driven
Business-friendly
Over half of SDGs relate to food
security and nutrition

5. 2016 GFPR overview
Value chains,
food systems
Regional
developments
Green energy
Sustainable
diets
Climate change,
smallholders,
SDGs
Healthy soils
Food loss and
food waste
Water
management
Food policy
indicators

6. Smallholders key to achieving Sustainable
Development and Climate Goals
Examples of how support to smallholders can contribute to multiple SDGs
Source: Adapted from Farming First

7. Refugee crisis: Complex, interrelated causes
• Food insecurity and lack of nutrition are cause and consequence
of conflict
• % of hunger and undernutrition increasingly concentrated in
conflict-affected countries
• Climate change, epidemics, and food price spikes increase risk of
civil conflict Source: Breisinger, Ecker and Trinh Tran 2015
Lebanon: More than 1
million refugees
Jordan: Over 600
thousand refugees
Syrian refugee crisis
• 8.7 million food insecure or at high risk (Jan 2016)
• Nearly 1 million seeking asylum in Europe
• 13.5 million still in need of assistance inside Syria
Strategies for building resilience must be in place
to address root causes of crisis
Sources: WFP 2016; UNHCR 2016

8. • Short run: Humanitarian aid BUT must pave way for development efforts
• Long run: Investments that transition toward development, e.g. improve
infrastructure; foster trade with refugees’ countries of origin
Building resilience is critical
Source: Breisinger et al. 2014
Source: Mabiso et al. 2014

9. International community has crucial role
• Regional / international action needed to contain external
stresses, e.g. natural disasters, food price shocks (World Development Report 2011)
• Open, transparent, and fair trade can help build resilience
• Encourage north- and south-south learning, cooperation to
match evolving security landscape
• Country-specific food security policies key for development
and peace (Breisinger 2013)
• Country-level analysis and strategies crucial, e.g. Yemen’s 7-Point Action Plan
• Revisit efficiency and allocation of public spending

10. The global food
system is
unsustainable...
…it must be
reshaped to
achieve multiple
SDGs
Photo credit: IFAD/Susan Beccio