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Post-2015 Agenda to Focus on Sustainable Poverty Eradication and Food Security
This post is quoted directly from the Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform.
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Innovations in Rural and Agricultural Finance: Credit Risk Management in Financing Agriculture
Agriculture carries with it a number of inherent risks. Weather, pests and crop disease, and variable local and global markets are all out of a farmer’s control, making it difficult to generate stable income. While farmers in developed countries and large-scale farmers in emerging economies can hedge these risks through the use of credit, insurance, and other financial instruments, developing country farmers typically rely on more “traditional”, and less effective, risk management techniques because they lack access to formal financing options.
First-Ever Global Nutrition Report Launched
Report provides comprehensive narrative on levels of malnutrition across the world, includes 193 country profiles.
A consortium of nations, organizations, researchers, and academics has released the first-ever comprehensive narrative on global health and country-level progress toward reducing malnutrition across the globe.
Food Security Stocks and the Potential Collapse of the Bali Agreement (UPDATED 10/24/14)
Author: Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla
Food security brings economic growth — not the other way around
Author: Maximo Torero (Division director of the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute )
On World Food Day, it’s time to remind ourselves that economic growth is only sustainable if all countries have food security. Without a country-owned and country-driven food security strategy, there will be obstacles and additional costs to global-, regional- and country-level economic growth.