Brookings “The Sustainable Development Goals are off track. The prospects of the SDGs being realized by 2030 are bleak. The rapid pace of consistent decline in poverty and hunger until 2015 had slowed even before COVID-19. Often overlooked is the fact that much of that reduction in poverty and hunger occurred in China and Southeast […]
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
Food for All: International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture
Prolonged neglect of agriculture and the 2007–2008 food and financial crises put food and agriculture back on the agenda. In 2015 the international community adopted Sustainable Development Goals—setting goals and undertaking to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve shared prosperity by 2030. However, the global COVID-19 pandemic has substantially set back the development agenda, with a […]
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 […]
Abstract In this article, I explore why China has surged ahead of India in irrigation and water management and in dealing with water scarcities. I offer a comparison of the two countries’ policies and investment strategies using a political economy context.