Food for all : international organizations and the transformation of agriculture / / Uma Lele, Manmohan Agarwal, Brian C. Baldwin, and Sambuddha Goswami [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Lele Uma J.
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1124 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.181
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural assistance; Agriculture - International cooperation; Agricultural innovations; Sustainable agriculture; Food supply; Agriculture - Technology transfer
• Persona (resp. second.): AgarwalManmohan; BaldwinBrian <1958->; GoswamiSambuddha
• Note generali: This edition also issued in print: 2021.; "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Home page.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Authors -- Introduction -- Part I The Overarching Environment -- 1. Food for All: Setting the Scene -- The Transforming Dynamics of Poverty, Food Security, and Nutrition -- Global Compacts: Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change -- Productivity Growth, Structural Transformation, and Employment -- Paradigm Shift to Sustainability -- From Sustainable Production Systems to Sustainable Consumption -- Healthy Diets, Nutrition, and Health: Undernutrition, Overnutrition, and Micronutrient Deficiencies-The Triple Burden of Malnutrition -- Finance for Development -- Role of International Organizations -- Questions Addressed by This Inquiry -- The Establishment of the Big Five International Organizations Concerned with Food and Agriculture -- Outline of the Chapters -- 2. Transformation: From Sustainably Productive Agriculture to Industry? -- Summary -- Introduction -- Data Challenges -- Structural Transformation and Poverty and Hunger Reduction -- Agriculture vs. Industry -- Structural Transformation, Farm Size, and Productivity Growth -- Role of Medium- and Large-Scale Farms -- Environmental Costs and Benefits of Productivity Growth -- Industrialization and Structural Transformation -- Savings, Investment, and Structural Transformation -- Convergence of Performance? -- Divergence in Agricultural Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction -- Complexity of Agricultural Development and Demands of Policymakers -- Structural Transformation: Data and Analysis -- Differences in Behavior among Developed and Developing Regions Using Data from the International Labour Organization -- Differences in Behavior among the Developing Regions. ; Differences in Behavior among Sub-Saharan African Countries -- Appendix A: Data and Methodology -- Data Description -- Appendix B: Differences between Our Two Studies -- 3. 2007-2012 Food Price Spikes and Crisis-A Decade and a Half Later -- Introduction -- I. A Perfect Storm -- What Caused the Crisis? -- II. Global Responses to the Crisis -- Issues between Developed and Developing Countries Highlighted by the 2007-8 Food Crisis -- III. Lessons Learned and Challenges of Implementation -- Price Stabilization: Trade vs. Storage -- Safety Nets to Deal with Chronic and Transitory Poverty in India -- Empirical Research on Prices, Consumers, and Producers -- Why Has It Been Hard to Convince Developing Countries' Policymakers to Abandon Price Stabilization Policies? -- Crisis Response and Long-term Development: The Right to Food and Social Safety Nets -- Conclusion -- 4. From Food Security to Nutrition Security for All -- Summary -- Introduction -- Food Security and Nutrition: Terms and Measurement -- All People, at All Times -- Implications of Differing Poverty Definitions -- Multidimensional Poverty and Income Poverty as Determinants of Various Indicators of Food Insecurity -- Role of Gender Equality in Food and Nutrition Security -- Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Nutrition in a Holistic Conceptual Framework -- Evolution from the Unfinished Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals -- What Is Missing in the Sustainable Development Goals? Obesity -- Differential Distribution of International Aid to Multidimensionally Poor Poverty -- What Do Success Stories in the Global Nutrition Reports Tell Us? -- From Food Security to Nutrition: Conclusions and Implications for the Future -- 5. Changing Global Governance Context for Food Security and Nutrition -- Summary -- Scope and Outline of This Chapter and the Next Chapter. ; What Is Governance and How Is It Defined? -- A Changed Context for Global Governance -- Old and New Actors in Global Governance -- Governance as Cosmology: Challenges in Drawing Boundaries in a Universe -- Collective Action among Large and Small Groups of State and Non-State Actors -- Issues of Global Governance -- Governance Issues at the National Level -- Exit, Voice, and Accountability -- Challenges of Fairness in Global Governance -- Building Consensus: Formal and Informal Governance-International Responses since the 2007 Crisis and Their Rationale -- What Were the Outcomes of These Initiatives? -- Local Participation -- 6. Governance of the "Big Five" -- Summary -- Governance of the Big Five Organizations -- Key Financiers of the United Nations System and International Organizations -- The World Bank Group -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations -- The World Food Programme -- The International Fund for Agricultural Development -- CGIAR -- Collaboration among Rome-Based Agencies -- Partnerships between the World Bank Group and United Nations Agencies -- A Fractionated Record of Donor Evaluations of International Organizations: The Need to Separate the Forest from the Trees -- Evaluating the Governance Processes of the Big Five -- 7. Financing for Sustainable Structural Transformation -- Summary -- Introduction: Why Give Aid, and Particularly, Multilateral Aid? -- Key Messages -- Agriculture and Intersectoral Priorities -- Financing Needs for Food and Agriculture -- South-South Cooperation -- Recent Trends in Financial Flows to Developing Countries -- Role of International Organizations Concerned with Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition -- Official Development Assistance from Development Assistance Committee Member Countries -- Official Development Assistance to and through the Multilateral Aid System_ The Rise of Multi-Bi Aid. ; Investment Flow Methodology in the Agriculture Sector -- Findings from Different Indicators -- Underinvestment in Food and Agriculture Relative to Needs -- Nutrition Financing -- The Dramatically Changed External Environment for Assistance of International Institutions: The New Actors -- Remittances -- Foreign Direct Investment: Inflows and Outflows -- Increased Role of Philanthropic Foundations -- IDA Graduation and Likely Implications for Aid to Food and Agriculture -- New and Innovative Sources of Financing beyond Official Development Assistance -- Future Sources of Financing -- Part II International Organizations -- 8. The World Bank -- Background and Summary -- Introduction -- Focus on Smallholder Agricultural Development -- The International Development Association in the Context of Bank Instruments -- Lending and Administrative Budget Pressures -- The 1980s: Structural Adjustment and the Debt Crisis Legacy -- The 1990s: "The Lost Decade"-The Wapenhans Report and Debt Relief -- Rising Debt and Debt Relief for Heavily Indebted Countries -- The 2000s: Toward a Food and Financial Crisis -- The Bank's Gender Strategy and Implementation -- The World Bank's Work on Land Policy -- World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development -- Crisis Response -- The Bank's Assessment of Its Performance in Agriculture -- Going Forward -- The Bank Going Forward in a Changed Context -- Latest Readjustment for the World Bank -- Appendix A: Chronology of the World Bank -- Appendix B: Role of the International Finance Corporation -- Appendix C: Role of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency -- Appendix D: Independent Evaluation Group and World Bank Project Performance Ratings -- 9. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations -- Summary -- Introduction. ; Structure at Headquarters, Challenges of Central vs. Decentralized Structure, and Declining Funding Structure -- FAO's Visions and Goals -- Evolution of FAO since Inception -- Performance and Progress on Implementation of Evaluation Recommendations: Old and New Issues in a Changing Context -- FAO Reforms -- FAO Results Framework -- The Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network: Findings and Conclusions -- FAO and Global Public Goods -- Divided Governance: Southern Leadership with Challenges-Hierarchical and Authoritarian -- The Consequences of Leadership Style -- Implications for the Future -- 10. CGIAR -- Summary and Implications Going Forward -- Introduction -- Once the Heart of the International System -- Successive Waves of Reforms and the Tragedy of the Commons -- Addressing New Research Challenges: CGIAR Research Portfolio of CGIAR Research Programs and Platforms, 2017-2022 -- A CGIAR Imperative: Stable, Predictable, Unrestricted Funding -- CGIAR's Need to Adeptly Change and Develop Its Priorities -- The Increasing Requirement for Monitoring and Impact Assessment of CGIAR Research Implementation -- The Development of Theories of Change for CGIAR -- A New Vision for CGIAR -- Key Perspectives for a Transformed CGIAR -- More than US30 Billion Expected in Commitment to African Agriculture -- South-South Research Cooperation Is Thriving -- CGIAR's 2020 Reforms -- 11. The International Fund for Agricultural Development -- Summary -- Background -- IFAD's Evolving Mission -- External Evaluations and Assessments of IFAD and IFAD's Responses -- IFAD's Operating Model -- Attention to Africa -- IFAD's Approach to Rural Poverty in Middle-Income Countries -- Impact Assessment -- Conclusion -- 12. The World Food Programme -- Summary -- The World Food Programme at Its Establishment -- The World Food Programme's Strategic Planning Process. ; Voluntary Funding Principally from Governments.
• Sommario/riassunto: Many developing countries are falling behind sustainable development goals: food and nutrition levels have deteriorated due to conflict, climate change, and the Covid pandemic, while global ambitions for achieving sustainable food security and adequate nutrition have increased. But what are the prospects of achieving sustainable, healthy food for all? What is the best response to concerns about growing differentiation among developing countries in terms of domestic agricultural and industrial performance? 'Food for All' explores how developments since these organizations were established have led to changes in the provision of international financial and technical assistance in support of the global food and agriculture system and how developing countries' own efforts have helped transform them.
• Titolo autorizzato: Food for All
• ISBN: 0-19-107142-0; 0-19-181653-1; 0-19-107143-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910513705203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.