'This paper provides evidence from one of the poorest countries of the world that the property rights matter for efficiency, investment, and growth. With all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda. Land rental and leasing have been made legal, but transfer rights remain restricted and the perception of continuing tenure insecurity remains quite strong. Using a unique panel data set, this study investigates whether transfer rights and tenure insecurit more...
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'Current high world food prices serve as a reminder of the vulnerability of large parts of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to hunger and undernutrition. Good nutrition status for children and adolescent girls is fundamental for attaining many of the Millennium Development Goals. Despite this, donors and governments underinvest in interventions to improve nutrition.This issue of id21 insights argues that this underinvestment is due to a lack of incentives for donors; few take a strategic approa more...
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This brief argues that a fundamental change in farming practices and policies is needed to address soaring food prices, hunger and environmental disasters.The report aims to reflect a growing consensus among the global scientific community and many governments that industrial, energy-intensive and toxic agriculture is a failed concept of the past. Small-scale farmers and agro-ecological methods provide the way forward in ending the food crisis and meeting the needs of local communities.source:Gr more...
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'In response to the global food crisis, world leaders around the globe are making pledges for rapid action. Governments are focusing on implementing short-term measures to muffle the immediate effects of the dramatic upward surge in commodity prices, particularly on the most vulnerable populations.
This South Centre Bulletin argues that addressing the root causes of the crisis requires a thorough appraisal of the global industrial agri-food system and concerted, long-term commitment to reforms more...
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'Many developing countries are exploring whether biotechnology has a role in addressing national issues such as food security and environmental remediation, and are considering whether the putative benefits of the technology to biodiversity, health, and local jobs. Some policy leaders worry that their governments are not prepared to take control of this evolving technology and that introducing it into society would be a risky act. Others have suggested that taking no action carries more risk, gi more...
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'While countries in the industrialized part of the world is expecting a decrease in food prises, the actual crisis is a crushing blow to the more than 40 percent the global population living on less than 2$ a day. Humanitarian organisations are eager to implement new methodologies in order to meet new challenges.'
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The WTO should be expected to specify reactions during a ‘food crisis’. This paper states that the they do have rules governing how members impose trade restrictions in response to higher world market prices. However, these rules are very weak and impose few constraints on what a member is allowed to do.
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