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2021 Global food policy report: Transforming food systems after COVID-19: Synopsis [in Chinese]

2020年在诸多方面都让我们始料未及。新冠肺炎(COVID-19)疫情为全球带来了一场大规模的公共卫生灾难,各国均陷入了疫情及其相关应对政策带来的不同程度的经济困境,面临服务严重中断和人员流动严重受限的局面。无论是富裕国家还是贫穷国家,均未能幸免。在中低收入国家,许多弱势群体直接面临食物安全、医疗和营养方面的威胁。丧失生计、营养不良、教育中断和资源枯竭造成的长期影响可能性非常巨大,特别是对许多国家来说,距离新冠肺炎疫情的结束还遥遥无期。

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2021 Global food policy report: Transforming food systems after COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic has upended local, national, and global food systems, and put the Sustainable Development Goals further out of reach. But lessons from the world’s response can help address future shocks and contribute to change.

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2021 Global food policy report: Transforming food systems after COVID-19: Synopsis

The coronavirus pandemic has upended local, national, and global food systems, and put the Sustainable Development Goals further out of reach. But lessons from the world’s response can help address future shocks and contribute to change.

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Natural Resources and Environment: Governance for nature-positive food systems

Rethinking food system policies in terms of “eco-agro-food systems” can help to foster an integrated approach that will maintain and restore vital ecosystem services and reduce the likelihood of future shocks.

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Does bottom-up monitoring improve public services? What we found in Uganda

In many developing countries, poor delivery of public services remains an important problem. Public infrastructure, such as roads or boreholes for drinking water, is poor. The quality of service provided in hospitals or schools is low.

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New Social Accounting Matrix for Jordan: A 2015 Nexus project Social Accounting Matrix

This new Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Jordan is a snapshot representation of the Jordanian economy in which productive activities, factors of production, and economic transactions between the main agents, including households, government, an

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Taxing informality: Compliance and policy preferences in urban Zambia

What drives tax compliance among informal workers, and how does compliance affect their policy preferences? Informal workers in developing countries encounter multiple taxes levied by government authorities and non-state actors.

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Natural resource management and resource rights for agriculture

For the foreseeable future, agriculture in developing countries will be overwhelmingly based on farming that is dependent on natural resources to produce edible plants, provide feed for livestock, or to raise fish.