Can the new food governance system and strategic thinking on food security and rural development, prompted by the 2007–09 food “crisis”, prevent future crises and lead to the lasting eradication of hunger?
In the recent years, focus has grown on human rights arguments and the efforts to improve access to resources. Human rights language has been used to support resource-access claims, and rights-based approaches have been pursued as a means for empowerment. However, beyond enthusiastic appropriations...
Report of a workshop held in Kalk Bay, South Africa, December 2008.
ODI Briefing Paper The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) aims to promote agriculture throughout the EU by increasing farmers’ incomes and supporting the provision of public goods such as the environment. It is funded from the European Commission (EC) budget and accounts for roughly 40% of total EC...
Knowledge is only effective when it is shared and made available to the broadest possible range of people. This is especially true when aiming at effectively combating worldwide hunger and malnutrition which multidimensional causes require being always well informed on a wide range variety of...
Report of a workshop held in Kalk Bay, South Africa, December 2008.
Food and Nutrition Security: Comprehensive Framework for Action The United Nations System High Level Task Force on Global Food Security released a summary version of its Updated Comprehensive Framework for Action (UCFA). The UCFA is the UN system-wide coordinated approach for supporting country and...
In the years ahead, development efforts aiming at reducing vulnerability will increasingly have to factor in climate change, and social protection is no exception. This paper sets out the case for climate‐responsive social protection and proposes a framework with principles, design features, and...
A presentation of Goldman Sachs analysis: a 5-year outlook on agriculture, livestock and biofuels.
This paper gives estimates of the potential profitability of herbicide-tolerant (HT) rice cultivation in the Sacramento Valley region of California. We estimate first-year returns for the average producer and use both deterministic and stochastic methods to perform sensitivity analysis to account...