Given the number of undernourished people in the developing world and the increasingly complex risks to food security, policymakers are faced with an enormous agenda.
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Whose responsibility is it to assure food security in an age of globalization? Is improved governance at the international level our greatest need, or are governance deficits most severe at the national level?
During the last half century, a number of individuals and institutions, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IFPRI, have engaged in projections of future food demand, supply, and related variables.
Siempre ha habido especulaciones y predicciones acerca de la capacidad del mundo para alimentarse.
This brief addresses the need to harness science and technology for the transformation of agriculture into a primary instrument of a global Evergreen Revolution.
In looking toward 2020, one of the most severe problems to be faced is an impending shortage of adequate supplies of fresh water essential for drinking and for growing crops.
By the year 2020 land degradation may pose a serious threat to food production and rural livelihoods, particularly in poor and densely populated areas of the developing world.
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Causes of hunger
The persistence of hunger in a world of plenty is the most profound moral contradiction of our age. Nearly 800 million people in the developing world (20 percent of the total population) are chronically undernourished.
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.
Employment programs, particularly labor-intensive public works (LIPW), have a long history in Sub-Saharan Africa, dating back to the 1960s.
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?
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.
In 1990 a total of 780 million people out of 4 billion in the developing world are living on diets that are not sufficient to maintain a healthy life, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Meeting food and livelihood security needs in developing countries will require the conservation and enhancement of natural resources that contribute to agricultural production.