Like many other regional groups, the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)--Bangladesh , Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka--have taken steps toward forming a regional free trade area
Search
Use quotation marks around a phrase or title for more accurate search results (example: “El Nino”). You may search by type, subtype, division, topic, and other facets by clicking the links in the left sidebar.
Your search found 128 results.
Achieving food security has been the overriding goal of agricultural policy in India. The introduction and rapid spread of high-yielding rice and wheat varieties in the late 1960s and early 1970s resulted in steady output growth for foodgrains.
After seven years of arduous negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations was concluded in late 1993.
Food aid is one of the constants of human experience. The storage of food as public provision against crises is a practice recorded since Babylonian times.
Reform of water policy is urgently needed to avert severe national, regional, and local water scarcities that will depress agricultural production and worsen water-related health problems. Water is abundant globally but scarce locally.
Employment programs, particularly labor-intensive public works (LIPW), have a long history in Sub-Saharan Africa, dating back to the 1960s.
Is the agricultural sector in developing countries now facing the same neglect that it did in industrial countries some 200 years ago?
By 2020, current food production methods will be unable to meet the food demands of the growing world population.
Many developing countries will need to double their food production by 2020 if they are to successfully feed their burgeoning populations.
Agricultural research and development (R&D) is big business. Worldwide investments in public-sector agricultural R&D totaled about US$17 billion in 1990. But business as usual may not be sustainable.
In agrarian developing countries the natural environment is a key determinant of both poverty and nutritional status.
Grain traders in 1995 may have wondered if they were about to relive the world food crisis of the early 1970s.
brief
The right to food
The right to food has always been recognized as a valid and fundamental right of the individual. In the absence of food, other political and economic rights and freedoms are meaningless.
World population was about 2.5 billion in 1950; by 1988 it had doubled. Despite this unprecedented population explosion, global food supply kept pace with the additional demand for food.
A primary focus of the IFPRI 2020 Vision initiative is to find ways for people to attain food security, that is, sufficient food to lead healthy and productive lives. But what is sufficient?
Trigo looks at the elements of a strategy for technological development and institutional change to promote the goals of agricultural intensification, poverty alleviation, and resource conservation.
Earlier 2020 briefs identified annual growth rates for world population of 1.7 percent per year based on United Nations projections and per capita income growth in low- and middle-income economies of 2.9 percent as the major driving forces for gro
Global food production, so far, has increased continuously because cropped area has expanded and productivity per unit area has increased. In some regions of the world, however, there is little scope for further spatial expansion of agriculture.
The condition of the world's natural resource base in the year 2020 largely depends on whether poverty has been eradicated.
Meeting world food needs in the year 2020 will depend even more than it does now on the capabilities and resources of women.