The world food situation: New driving forces and required actions

摘要: "The world food situation is currently being rapidly redefined by new driving forces. Income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are transforming consumption, production, markets. The influence of the private sector in system, especially leverage retailers, also increasing. Changes availability, rising commodity producer–consumer linkages have crucial implications for livelihoods poor food-insecure people. Analyzing interpreting recent trends emerging challenges essential order to provide policymakers with necessary information mobilize adequate responses at local, national, regional, international levels. It critical helping appropriately adjust research agendas agriculture, nutrition, health. Not surprisingly, renewed global attention given role agriculture development policy, as can be seen from World Bank's Development Report, accelerated public action African under New Partnership Africa's (NEPAD), Asian initiatives more investment name just a few examples." Text