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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 […]
Determinants of a Demographic Transition in Predominantly Rural Countries
Why focus on predominantly rural countries, which is the charge of this paper? It is because predominantly rural countries influence population growth and demographic transition differently than urbanized countries. Following Gary Becker, it is now generally believed by economists that human fertility and population growth rates are determined by income and education.
Economics, Politics and Ethics of Primary Commodity Development
The poorest countries depend preponderantly on a limited number of agricultural commodities for exports, employment, income, government revenues, savings, and Investment. In these economies a small percentage change in the output or prices of these major commodities has a large macroeconomic effect, in contrast to nontraditional commodities or services which typically play a small role […]
Integrated Approaches to Poverty Reduction in Africa
Growing poverty in Africa has once again begun to sound alarming bells. It is a problem which must receive urgent attention. However, solutions must be seen from an historical perspective if mistakes are not be repeated, and if constructive lessons are to be learnt and applied in an operational context.
Helping Reassess China’s National Forest Policy
In 1998, OED initiated a review of the World Bank’s 1991 Forest Strategy, in order to assess its impact on World Bank lending and whether the strategy remained relevant. The 1991 Strategy had pursued a green agenda, by restricting the Bank from supporting production activities which entailed the logging of tropical moist forests. It had […]
