Category: Food Security
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Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Olivier De Schutter, a United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has recently presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council. The Rapporteur called for the world’s food system to be radically and democratically redesigned. (SRFOOD.ORG, 2014). In the final report, Olivier De Schutter presents his main conclusions and a summary…
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IFPRI: 2013 Global Food Policy Report
The International Food Policy Research Institute has launched a 2013 Global Food Policy Report yesterday. The report was launched at the event held at the Institute’s Washington, DC main office. Among the speakers during the report launch event were Dr. Shenggen Fan, Director General of the Institute, and guest speakers Homi Kharas from Brookings Institution, Asma…
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Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security (PNAS)
A study by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) shows that global diets have become more similar in composition over the last 50 years. According to the study, “the narrowing of diversity in crop species contributing to the world’s food supplies has been considered a potential threat…
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Closing the Gender Asset Gap: Learning from Value Chain Development in Africa and Asia (IFPRI)
A recently released discussion paper by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on the gender asset gap, based on four project case studies, indicates that dairy and horticulture value chain cases have successfully increased the stock of both men’s and women’s tangible assets and those assets they own jointly. The four projects implemented in…