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Pathways to reduce emissions from agriculture
Presentation on Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) Annual Meeting, Toyko, Japan, October 5, 2022 Related: Methane Emissions Must Fall for World to Hit Temperature Targets Fees are a promising and practical solution, especially those that build off existing business taxes common for extractive industries and agriculture Simon Black, Ian Parry, Nate Vernon November 2, […]
Reflections on Agricultural and Rural Development – Policies and Performance in Asia
India — one of many countries with second waves. Initial optimistic assessment revised following a 40-day national lockdown in March 2020 and return of millions of migrants
Achieving Sustainable Healthy Food Systems
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report for 2020 shows revised numbers of those undernourished and continuity in the use of measurement standards initiated in the 2017 report. FAO also initiated a dashboard approach, to bring a deeper level of analysis on the current state of food […]
Governance of the “Big Five” International Organizations Concerned with Food Security and Nutrition
Since 2015, when the global community adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Climate Change Accord, the financial resources needed to achieve global development goals have far exceeded current financial flows. Indeed, the World Bank/IMF Development Committee noted in April 2015 that the world needs to move from billions to trillions of financing […]
Agricultural policy reforms Roles of markets and states in China and India
Market reforms have been given much of the credit for China’s spectacular growth performance. This paper looks at China’s reform process systematically, along with India’s, and argues that the Chinese state has played a key role in transforming China into a modern economic state, deploying unlimited supplies of labor and combining it with a variety […]
Author(s): Uma Lele and Arthur A. Goldsmith Source: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jan., 1989), pp. 305-343 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1153832
