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Smallholder Farmers in India: Food Security and Agricultural Policy R.B. Singh Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific; P. Kumar Professor of Agricultural Economics and FAO consultant, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi; T. Woodhead FAO consultant: strategic aspects of rice-based systems FAO RAP Publication March 2002
This is a FAO, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific publication.
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Keywords: national food security schemes, India, FAO, agriculture, smallhold farmer
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Rethinking UK Food Strategy Susan Ambler-Edwards, Kate Bailey, Alexandra Kiff, Tim Lang, Robert Lee, Terry Marsden, David Simons, Hardin Tibbs Chatham House 2009
A Chatham House Report
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/13248_r0109foodfutures.pdf Keywords: national food security schemes, UK, policy, strategy
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UK Food Supply Storm Clouds Chatham House Project Research Team Chatham House January 2008
A Chatham House Briefing Paper
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/10896_bp0108food.pdf Keywords: national food security schemes, UK, policy, strategy
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UK Food Supply in the 21st Century: The New Dynamic Chatham House Project Research Team Chatham House 2010/10/03
A Chatham House Briefing Paper
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/6487_foodprojectinfo.pdf Keywords: national food security schemes, UK, policy, strategy
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Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries: A Positive Reform Agenda OECD Public Affairs Division OECD June 2003
OECD Policy Brief
http://www.oecd.org/publications/Pol_brief Keywords: national food security schemes, policy, brief
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The Cost of Implementing Agricultural Policy OECD Public Affairs Division OECD August 2007
OECD Policy Brief
http://www.oecd.org/publications/Pol_brief Keywords: national food security schemes, policy, brief
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Developments in National Policies for Food and Nutrition Security in Brazil Cecilia Rocha Development Policy Review 2009
This article examines evaluation evidence on two of the most important recent initiatives in Brazil's policies for food and nutrition security (conditional cash transfers through Bolsa Familia and support for family agriculture through the Programa de Aquisicao de Alimentos). It also considers advances in older policies (such as the School Meals programme) and the work of the National Council for Food and Nutrition Security, which has culminated in national legislation establishing food and nutrition security as a right.
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Keywords: food security, Brazil, social policy, family agriculture
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Agricultural Policy Reform: Developments and Prospects OECD Public Affairs Division OECD June 2000
OECD Policy Brief
http://www.oecd.org/publications/Pol_brief Keywords: national food security schemes, policy, reform, development, agriculture
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Agricultural Policy Reform in South Africa OECD Public Affairs Division OECD April 2006
OECD Policy Brief
http://www.oecd.org/publications/Pol_brief Keywords: national food security schemes, policy, reform, development, agriculture, south, africa
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Agricultural Policy Reform in Chile OECD Public Affairs Division OECD 2010/11/03
OECD Policy Brief
http://www.oecd.org/publications/Pol_brief Keywords: national food security schemes, policy, reform, development, agriculture, africa, chile
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The World Food Crisis: What's Behind It and What We Can Do About It Eric Holt-Gimenez Institute for Food and Development Policy October 2008
The World Food Program's description of the global food crisis raises the specter of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive. But the reasons so many people have limited access to food are anything but "natural". On the contrary, decades of skewed agricultural policies, inequitable trade, and unsustainable development have thrown the world's food systems into a volatile, boom and bust cycle and widened the gap between affluence and poverty.
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Keywords: national food security schemes, hunger, malnutrition
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Free Trade Agreement in South East Asia and East Asia La Via Campesina - International Farmers Movement Sept. 2009
La Via Campesina South East Asia and East Asia organized their strategic meeting with alliances in Dae-gu, South Korea on December 1-5, 2008. Korean Women Peasant Association (KWPA) and Korean Peasant League (KPL) hosted the meeting. The objective of the meeting was to analyze the current financial crisis and its impact on the Asian population. Various experiences of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), struggle against FTAs and finding strategies for unified struggle against FTAs were shared. The FTAs/EPAs which have been implemented demonstrate the negative impact on agriculture and the environment. FTAs between developed and developing countries are always agreed by agreements which ignore developing countries. This book is a compilation of various papers that were presented at the strategic meeting in South Korea.
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Keywords: national food security schemes, South East Asia, free trade agreement, financial crisis
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Global Food Reserves: Framing the Context For a New Multilateralism Robin Willoughby and Adam Parsons Share The World's Resources October 2009
The issue of food reserves has received renewed attention from policymakers following the dramatic spikes in grain and oil prices since late 2006. In June 2008, the prices of basic foods on international markets reached their highest levels for 30 years, causing widespread chaos in many developing countries and pushing millions of people into chronic hunger. With cereal stocks-to-use ratios at a record low in 2008 (the second lowest level in 30 years), many governments reacted against the high cost of food imports by restocking national grain reserves, and in some cases by imposing temporary export bans or export taxes on staple food grains. Although agricultural commodity prices have since declined to 2007 levels, the structural
problems underlying the volatility in international food prices remain. This paper sets out to provide a conceptual framework for how food reserves can be discussed as a potential policy response to the global food crisis and as part of a longer-term strategy to achieve universal food security.
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http://www.stwr.org/food-security-agriculture/global-food-reserves-a-key-step-towards-ending-hunger.html Keywords: national food security schemes, grain reserves, policy, food crisis
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The impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Pacific Region Simon Feeny Oxfam 2010
This report examines the impacts of the Global
Economic Crisis (GEC) on Pacific countries as part
of an Oxfam International research project analysing
the impacts of the economic crisis, and the responses
to it, across 11 countries. As the crisis started to hit
developing countries, Oxfam International initiated
research to inform national and global program and
policy responses to the crisis. The objectives of the
research were to assess the human impacts of the
economic crisis and to analyse whether responses
by government, civil society and multilateral agencies
were serving the interests of poor people. Oxfam
Australia focused its attention, in part, on the Pacific
Islands, to contribute to the global analysis.
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Keywords: national food security schemes, Australia, pacific, economic crisis
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A Billion Hungry People: Governments and Aid Agencies Must Rise to the Challenge Oxfam January 2009
High food prices have brought into sharp focus an existing global food crisis that affects almost one billion people. Lasting solutions to the problem include adequate investment in agriculture, fairer trade, the redistribution of resources, and action on climate change. But hungry people cannot be fed on the hope of long-term solutions. Governments, supported by aid agencies and donors, must act now to provide systematic emergency assistance and longer-term support to those in need, and to better protect people in chronic poverty against shocks such as drought, floods, and market volatility.
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Keywords: national food security schemes
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About Global Food Security
There are more than 1.02 billion hungry people in the world
Source:FAO 2010
Providing global food security is one of the principle challenges for humanity in current times. The scale of the challenge is immense. According to an FAO estimate over 1 billion people suffer from hunger. One sixth of all humanity currently goes hungry every day. This is a challenge that has reached unprecedented levels in recent years. There are more people hungry today than at any time since 1970.
Malnutrition has also been growing since the mid-1990s, and in 2008 was affecting approximately 915 million people. These trends are expected to worsen given high food prices, and structural issues relating to the recent downturn in the global economy.
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