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Keynote presentation:
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3. Rapid urbanization and growth of the middle class is changing diets and increasing pressure on food systems while the food industry expands globally.
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Keynote presentation:
Dr Joan Girona, Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA, Spain), "Food Security, Self-Sufficiency and Sustainable Agriculture in a Changing World"
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Food Security Measurement in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals...FAO
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Mr Carlo Cafiero, Senior Statistician and Economist, FAO Statistics Division
MODERATOR:
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Achieving sdg2 by 2030 through food systems transformations
by Anaka Aiyar, Post-Doctoral Associate, Cornell University
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With the news reporting on record-high temperatures, labour shortages, and a growing population to feed, R&D in agriculture offers an opportunity to flourish. A successful R&D claim can provide the financial boost needed to drive the agriculture industry toward improved solutions, processes, and products, ultimately overcoming the industrial challenges. This article will provide comprehensive information on the significance of R&D in addressing challenges faced by the agriculture industry and the advantages industry experts can expect to receive when applying for R&D tax credits.
This document discusses how technology is changing food production, processing, and sourcing for the food service sector. It covers how precision farming and regenerative agriculture are using technology to improve sustainability. It also examines how food processing is transforming raw materials into shelf-stable foods while balancing nutritional value and environmental impact. The role of food science and food technology in addressing issues like food waste, climate change, and unequal supply chains is explored.
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ICRISAT Global Planning Meeting 2019: Food Systems Futures & the SDGs: Can we...ICRISAT
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Role of Agricultural Policy Responding to food security of India,group 5, Sec...MD SALMAN ANJUM
This document discusses India's agricultural policies for ensuring food security. It outlines key policies introduced in the 1960s to increase food production, including developing new farming technologies, providing farm inputs and credit, and establishing minimum support prices. It also discusses dimensions of food security like access to nutritious food. Important policies helped increase cereal production and reduce import dependence and production variability. The document calls for continuing these policies and reforming others like pricing and trade to further support farmers and ensure food security.
Rosegrant, Mark. 2023. Economic Impacts of Climate Change in the Philippine Agriculture Sector: Scenarios, Policies, and Impact. PowerPoint presentation given to students of AG 4390/AG 5371: Global Agriculture Leadership Academy. Department of Agriculture, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, March 29, 2023.
The document discusses key issues facing small-scale farmers and recommendations from a global agricultural assessment. It finds that:
1) Food prices have risen due to increasing global demand, high energy costs, weather issues, biofuel production, and market speculation. However, prices remain below 1970s-80s levels. Agricultural intensification has benefited some but left over 850 million hungry and 150 million children malnourished.
2) Agriculture must be viewed as multi-functional, providing economic, environmental and social benefits alongside food production. Approaches should sustain yields without degrading the environment.
3) Empowering small-scale farmers and women, agro-ecological practices, local knowledge integration,
Economic impacts of climate change in the philippine agriculture sectorCIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Mark W. Rosegrant, Nicostrato Perez, Angga Pradesha, Timothy S. Thomas and Mercedita A. Sombilla at “Up and down the scales of time and place: Integrating global trends and local decisions to make the world more food-secure by 2050” Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
Priorities for Public Sector Research on Food Security and Climate Change, Review 1 by Dale Andrew, OECD on April 12, 2013 at the Food Security Futures Conference in Dublin, Ireland.
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CGIAR SEMINAR SERIES
Food Security Trends and Resilience-Building Priorities
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SEP 1, 2023 - 9:00 TO 10:30AM EDT
The Economist Intelligence Unit gives their view about the future of food supply in the world. Food must be enough in quantity and quality to feed the future population.
A Proposal for a Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) System in Trinidad and Tobagodomhindsdo
Crop production is vulnerable to climate variability, and climate change associated with increases in temperature, increases in CO2, and changing patterns of rainfall may lead to a considerable decline in crop production.
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Policy Seminar
Discussion on the Key Findings of FAO’s 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report
Oct 10, 2018 - 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EDT
The National Food Security Act, 2013 (also Right to Food Act) is an Act of the Parliament of India which aims to provide subsidized food grains to approximately two thirds of India's 1.2 billion people. It was signed into law on 12 September 2013, retroactive to 5 July 2013.
Kazal 6f measurement and policy feedback final 1Sizwan Ahammed
Based on various information sources, trainees will learn about the status of food security and nutrition in Bangladesh, as well as research activities and policies related to food security and nutrition. Key policies aim to improve food and nutrition security through priority investment programs, including those focused on agriculture, fisheries, livestock, food access, and nutrition. Challenges to implementing these programs and achieving food security goals include natural disasters, volatile food prices, and lack of income generation for poor people.
Kazal 6f measurement and policy feedback final 1Sizwan Ahammed
Based on various information sources, trainees will learn about the status of food security and nutrition in Bangladesh, as well as research activities and policies related to food security and nutrition. Key policies aim to improve food and nutrition security through priority investment programs, including those focused on agriculture, fisheries, livestock, food access, and nutrition. Challenges to implementing these programs and achieving food security goals include natural disasters, volatile food prices, and lack of income generation for poor people.
The pdf of the PowerPoint presentation Prof Prabhu Pingali used for his Distinguished Lecture at the Institute of Economic Growth on Monday, 10 March 2014.
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Caitlin Welsh
POLICY SEMINAR
Food System Repercussions of the Russia-Ukraine War
2023 Borlaug Dialogue Breakout session
Co-organized by IFPRI and CGIAR
OCT 26, 2023 - 1:10 TO 2:10PM EDT
Joseph Glauber
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Food System Repercussions of the Russia-Ukraine War
2023 Borlaug Dialogue Breakout session
Co-organized by IFPRI and CGIAR
OCT 26, 2023 - 1:10 TO 2:10PM EDT
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2023 Borlaug Dialogue Breakout session
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OCT 26, 2023 - 1:10 TO 2:10PM EDT
Bofana, Jose. 2023. Mapping cropland extent over a complex landscape: An assessment of the best approaches across the Zambezi River basin. PowerPoint presentation given during the Project Inception Workshop, VIP Grand Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique, April 20, 2023
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IFPRI-AMIS SEMINAR SERIES
A Look at Global Rice Markets: Export Restrictions, El Niño, and Price Controls
Co-organized by IFPRI and Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS)
OCT 18, 2023 - 9:00 TO 10:30AM EDT
Rice is the most consumed cereal in Senegal, accounting for 34% of total cereal consumption. Per capita consumption is 80-90kg annually, though there is an urban-rural divide. While domestic production has doubled between 2010-2021, it still only meets 40% of demand. As a result, Senegal imports around 1 million tons annually, mainly from India and Thailand. Several public policies aim to incentivize domestic production and stabilize prices, though rice remains highly exposed to international price shocks due to its importance in consumption and reliance on imports.
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1. Accelerators for ending hunger &
malnutrition
PRABHU PINGALI
PROFESSOR OF APPLIED ECONOMICS
AND
DIRECTOR
TATA-CORNELL INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND
NUTRITION
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
IFPRI-FAO CONFERENCE ON ACCELERATING THE END OF HUNGER &
MALNUTRITION, BANGKOK THAILAND, 28-30TH NOVEMBER, 2018
2. An accelerator is:
a specific technological intervention, policy change, or institutional reform,
often a combination thereof, that leads to transformative change at scale in
the sustainable reduction of hunger and malnutrition.
Transformative change in food systems requires a transition from a focus
on quantity to an emphasis on quality, diversity & safety.
Inter-sectoral synergies are essential for sustainable reductions in
malnutrition in all its forms.
3. Hunger Reduction – lessons from the
Green Revolution
➢There are no silver bullets: Technology is a necessary but not a
sufficient condition for productivity growth
➢Infrastructure investments are essential – In India the GR succeeded
only in areas with irrigation and road investments
➢Market incentives are crucial – rapid productivity growth in China
resulted from the de-collectivization process of the late 1970s
➢Institutional reforms are vital – improved land tenancy rights and
market reforms lead to Vietnam’s agricultural transformation
4. Limits to GR strategy for hunger reduction
➢ Regions left behind – narrow focus on promoting the top three
staple grains
➢ Progress on hunger reduction but malnutrition persists – limited
access to food system diversity and quality
➢ Intra-household equity gap – rural women not empowered to
adequately share in the benefits of productivity growth
➢ Rising environmental trade-offs – poor incentives for adopting
sustainable intensification practices
5. SDG 2: End hunger, Achieve Food Security, Improved
Nutrition & Promote Sustainable Agriculture
Specific Targets for 2030
2.1: End hunger & ensure access to safe, nutritious & sufficient
food
2.2: End all forms of malnutrition, including child stunting &
wasting by 2025
2.3: Double agricultural productivity & incomes of small scale
producers
2.4: Ensure sustainable production systems & adaptation to
climate change & extreme weather events
2.5: Maintain genetic diversity of cultivated plants &
domesticated animals
6. A “Perfect Storm” of Global
Threats & Challenges
➢ Rising urbanization and changing demographic structure of rural
populations
➢ Changing diets & rapid rise in over-nutrition and epidemic of NCDs
even as malnutrition rates remain high
➢ Global environmental and sustainability challenges, including
climate shocks and extreme events
➢ Trade integration and declining competitiveness of developing
country agriculture
7. Re-imagining accelerators for food
systems change
➢ Diversify from commodity focused policy to a nutrition-sensitive
food system
➢ Seek disruptive technological breakthroughs for enhancing
resource efficiency, shelf life, food quality, safety and waste.
➢ Adapt new science tools, e.g. ‘big data’, ICT, and precision ag. to
smallholder systems
➢ Promote opportunities for “Leapfrogging” traditional infrastructure
constraints
➢ Improve targeting & management of safety net programs using ICT
tools
8. Inter-sectoral synergy for addressing
malnutrition
Tata-Cornell Institute Conceptual Framework
HOUSEHOLD FOOD SUPPLY & INCOME
HOUSEHOLD ACCESS TO MICRONUTRIENTS NUTRIENT ABSORPTION & UTILIZATION
INTRA-HOUSEHOLD Equity
PATHWAY
WASH PATHWAY
FOOD DIVERSITY
PATHWAY
INCOME PATHWAY
HOUSEHOLD FOOD ACCESS
(Quantity, quality and diversity of food)
INDIVIDUAL NUTRITION
(Individual intake and absorption of nutrient-dense foods)
IMPROVED
NUTRITION
OUTCOMES
ALLOCATION OF FOOD TO WOMEN &
CHILDREN
9. THANK YOU!
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