Author: Ajit SinghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The World Economic Crisis and Third World Agriculture
Author: Ajit SinghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Economic Crisis and Third World Agriculture
Author: Ajit SinghPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521441018
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Examines the effects of world economic crisis on agrarian development at a regional and global level.
economic crises in world agriculture
Author: theodore w. schultzEconomic Crisis and Third World Agriculture
Author: Ajit SinghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
World Development Report 2008
Author: World BankPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821368095
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. 'World Development Report 2008' seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture's negative environmental effects be contained? This year's report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the 'World Development Report'.
The International Farm Crisis
Author: David GoodmanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349103322
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This collection of essays examine the problems currently facing farmers and agricultural products in the international market.
Farming for Profit in a Hungry World
Author: Michael PerelmanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780916672881
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The State of Food Insecurity in the World: Economic Crises - Impacts and Lessons Learned
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789254062880
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 presents the latest statistics on global undernourishment and concludes that structural problems of uderinvestment have impeded progress toward the World Food Summit goal and the first Millennium Development Goal hunger reduction target. This disappointing state of affairs has been exacerbated by first the food crisis and now the global economic crisis that, together, have increased the number of undernourished people in the world to more that one billion for the first time since 1970. This crisis is different from the crisis developing countries have experienced in the past, because it is affecting the entire world simultaneously and because developing countries today are more integrated into the global economy than in the past. In the context of the enormous financial pressures faced by governments, the twin-track approach remains an effective way to address growing levels of hunger in the world. Investments in the agriculture sector, especially for public goods, will be critical if hunger is to be eradicated. Also published in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish.
Food and financial crises: Implications for agriculture and the poor
Author: Joachim von BraunPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896295346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Comparing crises: Great Lockdown versus Great Recession
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 925132526X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A comparison of the Great Lockdown of 2020 underway with the Great Recession of 2009, reveals some regularities, yet many differences. Notably, the shock associated with the Great Recession arose out of economy-wide stress, particularly high-income countries, while in direct contrast, the Great Lockdown was borne outside of the global economic system, and seemingly is set to leave most countries severely affected, high and low-income countries alike. Both crises, however, have led to similar impacts to economies throughout the world, with significant contractions to economic growth, economic activity and employment. For global food and agriculture, the Great Recession unfolded as a combination of two distinct crises that followed each other from 2007 to 2009. The initial 2007-2008 crisis was largely limited to food and agriculture, arising from a combination of supply and demand shocks within the global food sector. The 2009 crisis arose from an external demand side shock, brought about by the sharp contraction in overall economic activity in 2009, which is now known as the Great Recession. When referring to the Great Recession, this paper distinguishes two distinct sub-crises, i.e. the global food crisis of 2007-2008 and the global recession of 2009.