Presenters:

Robert L. Paarlberg, Wellesley College
Kevin Cleaver, World Bank

Abstract
In an age of globalization, what governance steps must be taken to reduce hunger? Is improved governance at the international level our greatest need? Or are governance deficits most severe at the national level? When national governments lag in providing the minimum public goods needed to assure food security for their own citizens, can outsiders help make up the resulting governance deficit? What role can bilateral donors and international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, play? Is it possible for NGOs to step in to do the job? Whose responsibility is it to assure food security in an age of globalization?

Please join Robert Paarlberg and Kevin Cleaver in a discussion on whether and how the forces of globalization are shifting governance responsibilities for ending hunger. At this meeting, Governance and Food Security in an Age of Globalization, a 2020 discussion paper by Robert Paarlberg will be formally released. In this paper, Paarlberg argues that the greatest governance deficits in the food security arena are still at the national level, not the global level.

Robert Paarlberg is a professor of political science at Wellesley College, and an associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Kevin Cleaver is director for rural development at the World Bank.

Copies of the 2020 Discussion Paper will be available at the meeting or can be downloaded below:

2020 Discussion Paper 36
(PDF 465K)

Please RSVP by e-mail: k.dutton@cgiar.org.