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Global Food Policy Report 2017

A review of major developments in food and nutrition policy around the globe, featuring an in-depth look at the impact of rapid urbanization.

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A word from IFPRI

The 2017 Global Food Policy Report provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this sixth annual report, leading researchers, policy makers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy, and why, in 2016 and look forward to 2017. This year’s report has a special focus on the challenges and opportunities created by rapid urbanization, especially in low- and middle-income countries, for food security and nutrition.

In 2017, the world must move forward with its commitments on the SDGs. Working to improve food systems and strengthening the ties between rural and urban areas offer great promise for meeting those goals and ending hunger and malnutrition.

SHENGGEN FAN, Director General IFPRI

Themes

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Chapter 1: Food Security and Nutrition in an Urbanizing World

Chapter 2: Smallholders and Urbanization

Chapter 3: Growing Cities, New Challenges

Chapter 4: Urbanization and the Nutrition Transition

Chapter 5: How Cities Reshape Food Systems

Chapter 6: Informal Food Markets in Africa’s Cities

REGIONAL

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Africa

Measures of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition have improved steadily if slowly in Africa south of the Sahara, as has agricultural value added.

Central Asia

Severe external shocks—including falling oil, natural gas, and gold prices and economic slowdowns in the region’s main trading partners (Russia and China)—have weighed on households…

East Asia

The strongest El Niño in two decades made food security in East Asia especially hard to achieve in 2016.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Economic and political turmoil in Brazil and several larger countries in Latin America reverberated across the region in 2016.

Middle East and North Africa

Conflict and insecurity remained the key barriers to development progress in the Middle East and North Africa in 2016.

South Asia

South Asia is the fastest growing region in the world, led by India’s robust economic growth.

Food Policy Indicators

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ASTI

Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators

FPRCI

Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators

GHI

Global Hunger Index

IMPACT

International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade

SPEED

Statistics of Public Expenditure for Economic Development

TFP

Agricultural Total Factor Productivity

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