Sambuddha Goswami
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View article: Lessons from COVID-19
Lessons from COVID-19 Open
COVID-19 was one of the costliest and deadliest pandemics in the recent history of pandemics. Despite many warnings, the world was not prepared for it. The complexity of the nature of the virus and weak national health systems made monitor…
View article: Food for All: International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture
Food for All: International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture Open
This book is a historical review of international food and agriculture since the founding of the international organizations following the Second World War, including the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United N…
View article: Perspectives Moving Forward
Perspectives Moving Forward Open
Growing differentiation among developing countries, declining capital flows and remittances, uncertain external aid, weakening global architecture, and rising China are reviewed. In 2021, developed countries, led by the United States, had …
View article: CGIAR
CGIAR Open
CGIAR, by far the most complex organization reviewed in this book, has had an extraordinary track record of impacts on productivity growth. CGIAR’s mission has grown over time, beginning with germplasm research and becoming more complex. D…
View article: 2007–2012 Food Price Spikes and Crisis—A Decade and a Half Later
2007–2012 Food Price Spikes and Crisis—A Decade and a Half Later Open
The food price crisis, which intermittently lasted from 2006 to about 2012–13, raised a number of issues about the roles of markets and states in ensuring food security at home and globally. This issue has arisen once again in 2020, as a r…
View article: The World Food Programme
The World Food Programme Open
The World Food Programme (WFP) has emerged as the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security. The chapter explores how the need for emergency assistance has increased to meet growing humanitaria…
View article: Food for All: Setting the Scene
Food for All: Setting the Scene Open
Setting the scene, this chapter identifies key recent international agreements germane to the book’s subject matter—namely, Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Accord—against which the role of structural transformation and …
View article: Financing for Sustainable Structural Transformation
Financing for Sustainable Structural Transformation Open
Official development assistance (ODA) and domestic expenditures of developing countries on food and agriculture are often too small, relative to needs or for stimulating private investment. ODA and expenditures are suboptimally allocated m…
View article: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Open
This chapter explores the evolving roles of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and its reforms from the 2007 Independent External Evaluation until the arrival of Director-General Qu Dongyu. The chapter outli…
View article: Transformation: From Sustainably Productive Agriculture to Industry?
Transformation: From Sustainably Productive Agriculture to Industry? Open
The chapter explores issues of farm size, productivity, and structural transformation, as well as the reasons underlying performance. Productivity growth is crucial to structural transformation, and conventional wisdom held that small farm…
View article: Changing Global Governance Context for Food Security and Nutrition
Changing Global Governance Context for Food Security and Nutrition Open
Through collective action, global governance helps identify, understand, and address problems that spill over national boundaries. Those problems include maintaining peace and security; developing and implementing rules with regard to trad…
View article: From Food Security to Nutrition Security for All
From Food Security to Nutrition Security for All Open
Malnutrition, in all its forms, is a critical global public health problem. Food production and consumption patterns are also the largest challenges to planetary boundaries. Transformative change is needed in research, information and outr…
View article: Food for All
Food for All Open
This book is a historical review of international food and agriculture since the founding of the international organizations following the Second World War, including the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United N…
View article: Copyright Page
Copyright Page Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: The World Bank
The World Bank Open
The World Bank, the oldest and strongest of the multilateral banks, is owned by governments but rooted in the political reality of their unequal voting power. This chapter, a story of the Bank’s assistance to food and agriculture, explains…
View article: Agricultural policy reforms: Roles of markets and states in China and India
Agricultural policy reforms: Roles of markets and states in China and India Open