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Kumar, Neha; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - In: Resilience for food and nutrition security

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Reaching the missing middle: Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in middle income countries

Fan, Shenggen; Cousin, Ertharin - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

Eliminating hunger and malnutrition around the globe cannot be achieved without a new approach to dealing with the problem in middle income countries. Here’s why this is so, how the middle income countries should respond, and what the international community can do to help.

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The business imperative: Helping small family farmers to move up or move out

Fan, Shenggen; Brzeska, Joanna; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

How can family farmers best contribute to their country’s agriculture needs as well as broader development goals? First, we should determine which farmers can be profitable and assist them in doing so. Second, for those who aren’t profitable, we need to help them shift to other economic...

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Food policy in 2014–2015: Strong advances and stubborn setbacks

Fan, Shenggen - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

The year 2014 saw mixed results for food and nutrition security: some countries made headway on policies to cut hunger, while in other countries conflict and health crises took a heavy human toll. Much of the year’s discourse focused on potential priorities for the future global development...

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Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies

Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Benin, Samuel; Fan, Shenggen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

to reduce poverty than increasing export-crop production. This conclusion is based on case studies of ten low …

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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries

Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and …- and long-run impact on poverty through various channels. It surveys spending trends and analyzes the effect of growing …

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Resilience for food and nutrition security

Fan, Shenggen (contributor); Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

In recent years, many people and parts of the world have been hit by major shocks ranging from conflicts, erratic weather patterns, earthquakes, droughts, and floods to food price spikes. At the same time, poor people and communities remain vulnerable to shocks that may be smaller in...

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The impacts of public investment in and for agriculture: Synthesis of the existing evidence

Mogues, Tewodaj; Yu, Bingxin; Fan, Shenggen; Mcbride, Linden - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

In light of a reinvigorated policy orientation toward agriculture in developing countries following recent dramatic developments affecting food prices and agricultural land use, public resource allocation decisionmakers ought to have access to the existing evidence from academic research on the...

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Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies

Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Benin, Samuel; Fan, Shenggen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

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Navigating the Perfect Storm: Reflections on the Food, Energy, and Financial Crises

Headey, Derek D.; Malaiyandi, Sangeetha; Fan, Shenggen - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export … sharply in many countries, and that global poverty levels have increased markedly. The good news is that the supply response … clear that additional people will fall into poverty and become food insecure. Lastly, the global food system is …

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