The return of high food prices and the need to adapt to climate change have revived interest in agricultural technologies adapted to smallholders, in particular women. Sustainable intensification of smallholder production will require a shift to knowledge-intensive agriculture that combines local knowledge and the latest sustainability science to adapt practices to local ecosystems and increase resilience to climate change, price and other shocks. Poor farmers, often women, usually cultivate in more extreme environments in addition to being less connected to markets. A radical change in the focus of national agricultural plans and substantial investment are needed to unleash smallholder production potential, contributing to achieving MDGs and boosting food production to meet the 70% increase needed by 2050. A holistic approach is needed to raise productivity and resilience of agriculture and supporting ecosystems as well as the efficient and equitable functioning of agricultural supply chains.
Food security in India and States: key challenges and policy option Premier Publishers
Condition of food security in India is gloomy and is similar to African countries. Both the supply side and demand side factors have their roles in the present condition of food security and undernourishment in India. This study supports that if agriculture production grows; increasing food prices has less bearing on low food security. Problem of food security in India is very much related to low demand. If demand of people can be improved, food security can be achieved. Disaggregated trend of food security shows that problem of food insecurity is high in poor states. Considering disaggregated level of food security, government has passed Food Security Bill in India. Our analysis points out that food security cannot be achieved in India without improving the level of overall agriculture production. Improving agricultural production is essential for ensuring long term food security and promoting poverty reduction. State level condition of storage capacity of food grains also points out that how a state like Bihar with low storage facility will manage to implement this Bill. Without identifying role of market, success of Food Security Bill and reduction of poverty is distant dream.
Global food crisis-a most devastating phenomena: causes, severity and outlook...Vijay Keraba
global food crisis is becoming a very serious and most devastating phenomena of mankind. it need to be stopped, or else our next generation will witness a viral evil, food crisis.
A description of the disparity that exists in the current global food market and how this system results in scarcity and abundance in various parts of the world. Highlights inefficiences and unfairness in the agricultural industrial model and suggests remedies to this model.
Measuring Global Progress Toward Food and Nutrition SecurityDuPont
DuPont Advisory Committee on Agricultural Innovation and Productivity: 2014 report focuses on global food and nutrition security; farmers, sustainable agriculture, empowering women, training.
The return of high food prices and the need to adapt to climate change have revived interest in agricultural technologies adapted to smallholders, in particular women. Sustainable intensification of smallholder production will require a shift to knowledge-intensive agriculture that combines local knowledge and the latest sustainability science to adapt practices to local ecosystems and increase resilience to climate change, price and other shocks. Poor farmers, often women, usually cultivate in more extreme environments in addition to being less connected to markets. A radical change in the focus of national agricultural plans and substantial investment are needed to unleash smallholder production potential, contributing to achieving MDGs and boosting food production to meet the 70% increase needed by 2050. A holistic approach is needed to raise productivity and resilience of agriculture and supporting ecosystems as well as the efficient and equitable functioning of agricultural supply chains.
Food security in India and States: key challenges and policy option Premier Publishers
Condition of food security in India is gloomy and is similar to African countries. Both the supply side and demand side factors have their roles in the present condition of food security and undernourishment in India. This study supports that if agriculture production grows; increasing food prices has less bearing on low food security. Problem of food security in India is very much related to low demand. If demand of people can be improved, food security can be achieved. Disaggregated trend of food security shows that problem of food insecurity is high in poor states. Considering disaggregated level of food security, government has passed Food Security Bill in India. Our analysis points out that food security cannot be achieved in India without improving the level of overall agriculture production. Improving agricultural production is essential for ensuring long term food security and promoting poverty reduction. State level condition of storage capacity of food grains also points out that how a state like Bihar with low storage facility will manage to implement this Bill. Without identifying role of market, success of Food Security Bill and reduction of poverty is distant dream.
Global food crisis-a most devastating phenomena: causes, severity and outlook...Vijay Keraba
global food crisis is becoming a very serious and most devastating phenomena of mankind. it need to be stopped, or else our next generation will witness a viral evil, food crisis.
A description of the disparity that exists in the current global food market and how this system results in scarcity and abundance in various parts of the world. Highlights inefficiences and unfairness in the agricultural industrial model and suggests remedies to this model.
Measuring Global Progress Toward Food and Nutrition SecurityDuPont
DuPont Advisory Committee on Agricultural Innovation and Productivity: 2014 report focuses on global food and nutrition security; farmers, sustainable agriculture, empowering women, training.
role of agricultural policies in responding to food security in India8902714972
Food security is achieved when ‘all people at all times have physical and economic access to food that is sufficient to meet dietary needs for a healthy and productive life.
Robert Johansson
SPECIAL EVENT
Discussion on the Key Findings of FAO’s 2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report
Co-Organized by FAO North America and IFPRI
JUL 18, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT
"The world's 200 wealthiest people have as much money as about 40% of the global population, and yet 850 million people have to go
to bed hungry every night."
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s socialist president: “The problem is not the production of food … it is the economic, social and political model of the world. The capitalist model is in crisis.”
Forests, biodiversity and food securityCIFOR-ICRAF
The world faces many challenges in attempting to achieve global food
security, and one of those challenges is the continuing loss of forests and
biodiversity. How do we feed the world’s growing population while
maintaining its biodiversity? The answer could be in new approaches to
integrating agriculture and biodiversity.
CIFOR scientist Terry Sunderland explores the links between forests,
biodiversity and food security in this presentation, which he recently gave at the
2nd World Biodiversity Congress in Malaysia to more than 150 delegates.
Food security at the national level refers to availability in the country of sufficient stocks of food to meet domestic demand through domestic supply or imports
Food security in India Ravi presentationRavi Shrey
Food security in India is major concern of govt. of India. and to provide food security of peoples of India food security bill 2013 was passed by Govt. of India.
Through this presentation i try to brief the need of food security.
PPT on the problem of food security in India and related issues such as hunger,famine,public distribution system in india based on the Economics textbook for class 9th from NCERT.
A lecture in Quantitative Sustainability
It is often claimed that agricultural productivity needs to be increased in order to feed a growing world population. Food security depends on several factors besides the productivity, including waste/efficiency, energy crops, meat consumption, and global justice and equity. This lecture explores the issue of food security in its many dimensions and teaches how to use a high-level systems approach in sustainability science.
Keith Mirchandani, the founder and CEO of Tristar Products, Inc., has partnered with Feeding America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to hunger relief. While the partnership launched by Keith Mirchandani will direct more attention to the cause, Feeding America will also work independently to relieve hunger in America.
In the United States alone, millions of families live in poverty and face hunger every day. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened this crisis, which has left more than 42 million people vulnerable to hunger.
Each year, Americans waste billions of pounds of food, but hunger continues to be an issue across the country. Feeding America, with a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries, allocates potentially wasted food to its partner facilities.
Hunger disproportionately affects children, seniors, African Americans, indigenous groups, and other people of color. The poverty rate in the black community is 18.7 percent, while the poverty rate in the white community is only 7.3 percent. To combat such food insecurity inequalities, Feeding America works with national organizations to meet the needs of local communities affected by hunger.
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Former Senator Richard G. Lugar's remarks for the 2009 BASIS Conference on "Escaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chronically Poor to the Economic Growth Agenda."
role of agricultural policies in responding to food security in India8902714972
Food security is achieved when ‘all people at all times have physical and economic access to food that is sufficient to meet dietary needs for a healthy and productive life.
Robert Johansson
SPECIAL EVENT
Discussion on the Key Findings of FAO’s 2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report
Co-Organized by FAO North America and IFPRI
JUL 18, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT
"The world's 200 wealthiest people have as much money as about 40% of the global population, and yet 850 million people have to go
to bed hungry every night."
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s socialist president: “The problem is not the production of food … it is the economic, social and political model of the world. The capitalist model is in crisis.”
Forests, biodiversity and food securityCIFOR-ICRAF
The world faces many challenges in attempting to achieve global food
security, and one of those challenges is the continuing loss of forests and
biodiversity. How do we feed the world’s growing population while
maintaining its biodiversity? The answer could be in new approaches to
integrating agriculture and biodiversity.
CIFOR scientist Terry Sunderland explores the links between forests,
biodiversity and food security in this presentation, which he recently gave at the
2nd World Biodiversity Congress in Malaysia to more than 150 delegates.
Food security at the national level refers to availability in the country of sufficient stocks of food to meet domestic demand through domestic supply or imports
Food security in India Ravi presentationRavi Shrey
Food security in India is major concern of govt. of India. and to provide food security of peoples of India food security bill 2013 was passed by Govt. of India.
Through this presentation i try to brief the need of food security.
PPT on the problem of food security in India and related issues such as hunger,famine,public distribution system in india based on the Economics textbook for class 9th from NCERT.
A lecture in Quantitative Sustainability
It is often claimed that agricultural productivity needs to be increased in order to feed a growing world population. Food security depends on several factors besides the productivity, including waste/efficiency, energy crops, meat consumption, and global justice and equity. This lecture explores the issue of food security in its many dimensions and teaches how to use a high-level systems approach in sustainability science.
Keith Mirchandani, the founder and CEO of Tristar Products, Inc., has partnered with Feeding America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to hunger relief. While the partnership launched by Keith Mirchandani will direct more attention to the cause, Feeding America will also work independently to relieve hunger in America.
In the United States alone, millions of families live in poverty and face hunger every day. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened this crisis, which has left more than 42 million people vulnerable to hunger.
Each year, Americans waste billions of pounds of food, but hunger continues to be an issue across the country. Feeding America, with a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries, allocates potentially wasted food to its partner facilities.
Hunger disproportionately affects children, seniors, African Americans, indigenous groups, and other people of color. The poverty rate in the black community is 18.7 percent, while the poverty rate in the white community is only 7.3 percent. To combat such food insecurity inequalities, Feeding America works with national organizations to meet the needs of local communities affected by hunger.
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Former Senator Richard G. Lugar's remarks for the 2009 BASIS Conference on "Escaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chronically Poor to the Economic Growth Agenda."
WWF Italia: The Growth of Soy: Impacts and SolutionsWWF ITALIA
The Growth of Soy: Impacts and Solutions, presents an overview of the soy industry and the issues around it. We outline the uses of soy, chart its extraordinary rate of growth, and present the data on where soy is produced and consumed. We explore those regions most at risk from the expansion of soy production, as well as discuss its other environmental and social impacts. Finally, and most crucially, we look at some possible solutions for reducing soy’s footprint – and what you can do to help.
italian news: http://www.wwf.it/news/notizie/?5220/soia-nascosta-minaccia-le-foreste
The world is facing a nutrition crisis : Approximately 3 Billion people from everyone of the worlds 193 countries have a low quality diets . Over the next 20 years , multiple forms of malnutrition will pose increasingly serious threats to global health. Population growth combined with climate change will place increasing stress on the food systems , particularly in Africa and Asia where there will be an additional two billion people in 2050 . At the same time rapidly increasing urbanisation,particularly in these two regions,will affect hunger and nutrition in complex ways - Both Positively and Negatively
The dilemma of the global food system is a deeply existential one . On one hand we have a moral imperative to ensure we have uninterrupted food supply ,on the other , doing so based on the expansion of current practices will have a devastating impact on the environment
Transforming Agri-food Systems to Achieve Healthy Diets for AllCGIAR
Challenges: Why Agri-Food Systems Need to Be Transformed
Opportunities: What Science Can Offer to Address these Challenges
The CGIAR partnership: Our Contribution to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Targets
One in seven people on earth goes to bed hungry each night. Ensuring that enough healthy, nutritious food is available for people everywhere is one of the most critical challenges we face.
Food is life and the global food sustainability is essential to human being survival. The global food system is highly
complex and is driven by various factors including environment, cultural, social and economic drive. It is vital to understand
these drivers and their interaction in order to help to improve the public food sustainability policies. Global polices and projects
desperately required in order improving the global food sustainability. Food sustainability is one of the unsolved global issues
and great commitment is required starting from global policy makers, national governments, and every individual home. This
research paper includes analysis and study of various elements such as global change science, policy, food crisis, factor affecting
and challenging food security, data on status and future projection and potential ways of solving problems. The goal of food
sustainability is to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and have a reasonable quality of life without
compromising the quality of life of future generations. Agriculture sustainability is the best solution which can feed the world
without compromising the environment or threatening human health. Scientific evidence that global environment has changed
is overwhelming and indisputable. These phenomena have a direct impact on agriculture which in turn affects food
sustainability. The food price is always toward upward trend which is validated by the periodic average global food price
monitoring report released by the Food and agricultural organizations. The factors affecting and challenging the food security
are many including increased food consumption due to population increase, uneven distribution, changes in living styles, limited
resources, environmental problems, economic problems and others. The potential ways to solve food sustainability need to be
established and implemented effectively across the world.
2. CONTENTS
117 How Pittsburgh can help Copenhagen on 141 Growing to meet future challenges
climate change Luis Alberto Moreno, president,
Frank Loy, former US under secretary of state for Inter-American Development Bank
global affairs and former chief climate negotiator
144 Long-term commitment vital for
122 From conventional to creative energy Africa’s growth
supply strategies Donald Kaberuka, president, African
Victoria V. Panova, Moscow State Institute of Development Bank
International Relations
148 Securing food and agriculture worldwide
126 Deploying carbon capture and storage Donald G.M. Coxe, chair,
Nick Otter, CEO, Global CCS Institute Coxe Advisors LLC
131 Financing renewable energy technologies 152 Food security and the biofuels challenge
and production C. Ford Runge, Distinguished McKnight
Raili Kajaste, Nordic Environment Finance University Professor of Applied Economics
Corporation, and Risto Penttilä, Finnish Business and Law, University of Minnesota
and Policy Forum EVA
158 America’s global health support
Reinforcing development, food for development
Gloria Steele, head, Global Health, USAID
security & health
163 Health security from economic and
134 The G20, or the G200? A Commonwealth view
environmental innovation
on global development challenges
Jeffrey L. Sturchio, president and CEO,
Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth
Global Health Council
secretary general
137 Achieving interdependence Actors & stakeholders
Haruhiko Kuroda, president,
Asian Development Bank 169 G20 leader profiles
3. REINFORCING DEVELOPMENT, FOOD SECURITY & HEALTH
Securing food and
agriculture worldwide
The G20 has the opportunity to tackle global food security and make historic changes
to the very politics of food supply
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By Donald G.M. he global financial crisis and economic oils – is reduced because of the recession, and grain
Coxe, chair, Coxe recession pushed the world food crisis prices have sharply retreated. Nevertheless, grains
Advisors LLC off the world’s front pages only months remain at higher prices than prevailed before the
after the United Nations High-Level global food crisis began, even if, among foodstuffs,
Conference on World Food Security in only sugar is now at near-record highs. The emerging
Rome sought to marshal resources for economic recovery will assuredly send grain and
the food crisis in June 2008. oilseed prices skyward, exacerbating the problems of
Unfortunately, the food crisis has not gone away. the poorest people of the world.
More than 1 billion people suffer from serious Why is there a world food crisis when global
malnutrition. World grain carryovers relative to grain, meat and milk production has been growing
consumption remain at marginal levels, even though throughout the decade? The answer lies in the longer-
consumption of high-protein foods – meat, milk and term effects of the food policies of the major food-
4. REINFORCING DEVELOPMENT, FOOD SECURITY & HEALTH
producing members of the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Since the 1950s, the farm programmes of the The Asian economies
United States, Canada and Europe have been driven
by the seemingly endless surpluses of grains, leading the recovery
particularly feed grains. President John F. Kennedy
introduced the feed grain programme in 1961 to deal must not be stopped by
with what he called the challenge of abundance. That
legislation, and its successors and imitators across food shortages and soaring
most of the OECD in later decades, sought to control
grain production and provided for aggressive export
grain prices
programmes aimed at what were called emerging
economies, funded by loans at low rates. What ‘rich
people’ could not consume would be sent to the When the new middle class in China, India and
‘poor people’ to prevent starvation. The policies were southeast Asia, collectively responsible for soaring
the awkward spawns of the intimate relationships oil and metals prices, began to change its diet of
between farmers and agribusiness, on the one hand, subsistence levels of bread and rice to include meats
and the deeply felt charitable impulses of the majority and milk, the arithmetic of protein conversion began
of OECD voters, on the other. to change the global supply and demand ratio for
Those policies were, in effect, backed by the World grains. It takes roughly seven units of vegetable
Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), protein to produce a unit of beef protein, five units for
which structured their long-range programmes to pork and milk, and nearly three for poultry. But the
strengthen economies throughout the developing number of hectares of grain production worldwide
world by building viable urban industrialised has been growing by only 1.5 per cent in the last
societies along developed market models. They decade, whereas consumption was rising at 3.5 per
ignored the insights of such intellectual giants as cent until the global recession hit. Industrialisation,
Mohandas Gandhi that most of the poor lived in rural urbanisation, pollution and overdrawn aquifers have
areas and that the sustained dumping of grains meant limited the growth of reliable arable land worldwide.
that most farmers in the developing world could never What is needed now is a swift, sustained increase
achieve the earnings needed to support their families in per-hectare yields worldwide, particularly in the
and generate surpluses for urban dwellers. Only in emerging economies.
recent years has the World Bank begun to reshape That means permanent changes in the politics of
its strategies to provide the irrigation, technology food worldwide.
and fertilisers needed to produce adequate food As the world emerges from this recession, the
supplies in emerging economies. Today, roughly two Asian economies leading the recovery must not be
thirds of India’s population still live on farms and in stopped by food shortages and soaring grain prices.
villages, and most families have plots so tiny that they Already, some wealthy countries are engaged in large-
can barely meet their own needs – let alone supply scale ventures – such as offshore farming – designed
bourgeoning urban demands. to ensure their food security. They fear that in the next
The European Union’s Common Agricultural food crisis, they might not be able to buy adequate
Policy, which consumes roughly 40 per cent of the supplies of food at almost any price.
EU’s budget, has been conspicuously successful in Technology and reasonably good governance
protecting its own farmers’ incomes. But the advent were at the core of the industrialisation that made
of genetically engineered (GE) seeds threatened to North America and Europe wealthy – and reduced
disrupt this tenuous balance by expanding grain the percentage of farmers in the population to single
outputs, creating even greater surpluses that must digits, while continuing to expand food output to help
somehow be funded to protect price levels. While drive the growth of cities and prosperity. The G20 has
there is a legitimate debate about the potential longer- a historic opportunity to launch that model across
range risks of using new technologies to expand food the world.
output, the experience of the US, Canada and other Time could be running out. Weather conditions
GE-using food giants has forced the overwhelming have been generally favourable – compared with long-
majority of scientists to endorse their supervised use. term historical records – across most of the world’s
The US has been so successful in expanding corn major food-producing regions in recent decades.
production through GE seeds that it has decided to Recent erratic weather conditions, which have
deal with its surpluses by mandating the allocation triggered late planting seasons in temperate zones,
of one third of its corn output for ethanol production. may signal climate change conditions that could have
The EU’s biofuels programme has been so successful catastrophic effects on global food supplies.
that it was recently blamed by a coalition of Asian The world can no longer take cheap, readily
countries for driving up the prices of soybean and available food for granted.
palm oil to levels that threaten their urban poor.
When Keynes was challenged for changing This article is drawn in part from the keynote address
his mind on a policy issue, he replied, “Sir, the to the 78th annual conference of the Couchiching
facts have changed. How do you respond when the Institute of Public Affairs on ‘The Politics of Global
facts change?” Food’ on 6 August 2009.