Global food security : challenges for the food and agricultural system /
Contributor(s): Brooks, Jonathan [co-ordinator] | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: Paris : OECD, 2013Description: 157 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789264195349; 9264195343.Subject(s): Food supply | Agriculture -- Economic aspects | Agriculture and stateDDC classification: 363.856 BROItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Executive summary -- 1. The challenge of global food security -- 2. Ensuring global food availability -- The challenge of ensuring global food availability ; Outlook for world food availability ; Easing supply constraints ; Reducing demands that are detrimental to food security -- 3. The role of food and agricultural trade in ensuring domestic food availabilit -- The balancing role of trade ; The importance of regional food and agricultural trade ; Food import bills of developing countries ; Trade and the stability of domestic markets -- 4. Improving access to food -- Lack of access is the main obstacle to food security ; The importance of incomes versus prices ; Agricultural development as a mechanism for raising incomes ; The role of smallholders ; The role for agricultural policies ; Risks to food access ; Food access and the role of trade -- 5. Food utilisation and nutritional outcomes -- The complements to income growth needed to improve nutrition ; Donor support for food and nutrition security -- 6. Priorities for achieving global food security -- Needs for global policy action ; Policy recommendations for OECD countries ; Developing countries' own policies.