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dc.contributor.authorLele, Uma
dc.contributor.authorAgarwal, Manmohan
dc.contributor.authorBaldwin, Brian C.
dc.contributor.authorGoswami, Sambuddha
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-17T13:11:05Z
dc.date.available2021-12-17T13:11:05Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52066
dc.description.abstractThis 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 Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and into the 1970s, when CGIAR was established and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) was created to recycle petrodollars. The book concurrently focuses on the structural transformation of developing countries in Asia and Africa, with some making great strides in small farmer development and in achieving structural transformation of their economies. Some have also achieved Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG2, but most have not. Not only are some countries, particularly in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, lagging behind, but they face new challenges of climate change, competition from emerging countries, population pressure, urbanization, environmental decay, dietary transition, and now pandemics. Lagging developing countries need huge investments in human capital, and physical and institutional infrastructure, to take advantage of rapid change in technologies, but the role of international assistance in financial transfers has diminished. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only set many poorer countries back but starkly revealed the weaknesses of past strategies. Transformative changes are needed in developing countries with international cooperation to achieve better outcomes. Will the change in US leadership bring new opportunities for multilateral cooperation?en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCG Economic growthen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVD Agricultural and rural economicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCL International economicsen_US
dc.subject.otherinternational food and agriculture, World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Food Programme, CGIAR, International Fund for Agricultural Development, structural transformation, Sustainable Development Goals, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.titleFood for Allen_US
dc.title.alternativeInternational Organizations and the Transformation of Agricultureen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/oso/9780198755173.001.0001en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2en_US
oapen.pages1024en_US
oapen.place.publicationOxforden_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: US Funder


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