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2013 Global Hunger Index

The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security

By: von Grebmer, Klaus,Headey, Derek,Béné, Christophe,Haddad, Lawrence,Olofinbiyi, Tolulope,Wiesmann, Doris,Fritschel, Heidi,Yin, Sandra,Yohannes, Yisehac,Foley, Connell,von Oppeln, Constanze,Iseli, Bettina

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2013 Global Hunger Index

The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security

The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 20082012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made, the level of hunger in the world remains serious, with 870 million people going hungry, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The policy recommendations in this report offer a path forward for the international development, humanitarian, and donor communities; for country-level policymakers in food-insecure countries; and for development and humanitarian practitioners.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896299511

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Reflections on the Global Food Crisis

How Did It Happen? How Has It Hurt? and How Can We Prevent the Next One?

By: Derek Headey,Shenggen Fan

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How Did It Happen? How Has It Hurt? and How Can We Prevent the Next One?

By: Derek Headey,Shenggen Fan

The dramatic surge in food prices from 2005 to 2008 seriously threatened the world's poor, who struggle to buy food even under normal circumstances, and led to protests and riots in the developing world. The crisis eventually receded, but such surges could recur unless steps are taken to prevent them. Using up-to-date information, the authors of Reflections on the Global Food Crisis identify the key causes of the food price surge, its consequences for global poverty, and the challenges involved in preventing another crisis. Breaking from many earlier interpretations, the authors conclude that the crisis was not primarily fostered by increased demand for meat products in rising economies such as China and India or by declines in agricultural yields or food stocks, or by futures market speculation. Instead, they attribute the rising food prices to a combination of rising energy prices, growing demand for biofuels, the U.S. dollar depreciation; and various trade shocks related to export restrictions, panic purchases and unfavorable weather. As part of their analysis, the authors also provide the first comprehensive review of both the macroeconomic and microeconomic consequences of the crisis, as well as a detailed comparison of the current crisis with the food price crisis of 1974. To prevent another crisis, the authors conclude that the global food system should be reformed through several key steps: make trade in agricultural commodities more free yet more secure; address long-term threats to agricultural productivity, such as climate change and resource degradation; scale up social protection in potentially food insecure countries; and encourage agricultural production in at least some of the countries now heavily dependent on food imports. Reflections on the Global Food Crisis will be a valuable resource for policymakers, development specialists, and others concerned with the world's poorest people.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896291782

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British Cabinet Ministers

The Roles of Politicians in Executive Office

By: Bruce Headey

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British Cabinet Ministers

The Roles of Politicians in Executive Office

By: Bruce Headey

First published in 1974, British Cabinet Ministers is about the opportunities and constraints of executive political office. It is mainly based on interviews with fifty contemporary British Ministers and twenty-five senior civil servants. Hitherto political observers have referred simply to ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ Ministers, which begs the question ‘“strong” or “weak” at what?’ Here Ministers are classified into five types—policy initiators, policy selectors, Executive and Ambassador Ministers, and Minimalists—depending on their different approaches to their jobs. The problems Ministers face in achieving their objectives are analysed and case studies are presented of the performance in office of different types of Ministers. In this context, we review the skills and abilities of politicians themselves and the range and quality of advice they can expect to receive in Whitehall. In the final section, the author considers the consequences for British government of the finding that Ministers are better qualified to perform some of their roles than others, and also indicates lines of inquiry that need to be further pursued by students of executive political leadership.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040272037

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Quantifying the cost and benefits of ending hunger and undernutrition: Examining the differences among alternative approaches

By: Fan, Shenggen,Headey, Derek D.,Laborde Debucquet, David,Mason-D’Croz, Daniel,Rue, Christopher,Sulser, Timothy B.,Wiebe, Keith D.

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Quantifying the cost and benefits of ending hunger and undernutrition: Examining the differences among alternative approaches

By: Fan, Shenggen,Headey, Derek D.,Laborde Debucquet, David,Mason-D’Croz, Daniel,Rue, Christopher,Sulser, Timothy B.,Wiebe, Keith D.

This brief examines estimates produced by several recent model simulations and frameworks that focus on the cost of ending hunger as well as progress toward other development goals—estimates that range from US$7 billion to US$265 billion per year. The differences among these estimates are largely attributable to the different targeted objectives and policy questions of each modeling exercise, different investment strategies considered, and varying assumptions about the role of different sectors in reducing hunger.

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2013 Global Hunger Index

2013 Global Hunger Index

Reflections on the Global Food Crisis

Reflections on the Global Food Crisis

British Cabinet Ministers

British Cabinet Ministers

Quantifying the cost and benefits of ending hunger and undernutrition: Examining the differences among alternative approaches

Quantifying the cost and benefits of ending hunger and undernutrition: Examining the differences among alternative approaches

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