Global Food Policy Report

How can the global food system deliver food security for all in the face of radical changes in migration, trade, and governance?

    • Themes
      • Chapter 1: Progress, Uncertainty, and Rising Antiglobalism
      • Chapter 2: The Global Food System under Radical Change
      • Chapter 3: The Free Flow of Goods and Food Security and Nutrition
      • Chapter 4: International Investment and Local Food Security
      • Chapter 5: Tightening Borders and Threats to Food Security
      • Chapter 6: Achieving Food and Nutrition Security through Open Access Data
      • Chapter 7: Domestic Farm Policy Reform and Global Food Security
      • Chapter 8: Governance Reform for Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture
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      • Africa
      • Central Asia
      • East and Southeast Asia
      • Latin America and the Caribbean
      • Middle East and North Africa
      • South Asia
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  • South Asia

    Food Systems at a Crossroads


    Anjani Kumar, Akhter Ahmed, Stephen Davies, and P. K. Joshi

     

    Rising exports, low oil prices, higher infrastructure spending, and supportive macroeconomic policies helped to make South Asia the world’s fastest growing region again in 2017, with economic growth projected to reach 7.1 percent in 2018. Growth across the region was not uniform, however, ranging from 0.6 percent in Nepal to 7.1 percent in both Bangladesh (a historical high) and India. Growth in agricultural gross domestic product (GDP) in South Asia also varied from country to country, shrinking by more than 4 percent in Sri Lanka in 2016, for example, and growing by 6 percent in Afghanistan. Agricultural GDP growth slowed in Bangladesh, but rose significantly in Bhutan and India.

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