Leveraging agriculture for improving nutrition and health
Agricultural development has traditionally focused on raising productivity and maximizing production of cereals.
Agricultural development has traditionally focused on raising productivity and maximizing production of cereals.
Gulati speaks of South Asian agriculture and the emerging challenges it faces. He addresses population growth and the growing scarcity of land and water.
The author acknowledges that there are sharply divided views on globalization, poverty and food security.
According to the author, strengthening their property rights over a whole range of assets is one of the most direct ways to empower [low-income] women, to improve their whole families' welfare, and to enhance overall food security." She
The Director-General of IFPRI sets the stage for the conference by pointing to the various important goals, including cooperating to create an environment in which people can escape food insecurity and malnutrition in a manner compatible with sust
Pandya-Lorch sets forth the goal of the conference as influencing and catalyzing action to achieve sustainable food security for all by 2020."" She describes the conference structure and program and the reasons for coming together to exa
The author discusses "6 myths that have made us complacent about malnutiriton and stifle our collective appetite for action...