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Halving Hunger: Meeting the first Millenium Development Goal through business as unusual

Shenggen Fan

Published in : 2010

Available in : English

IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan presents a report that challenges the way we address the hunger problem in the world. The report argues that new innovative approaches are needed to meet the first MDG of halving the hungry in the world by 2015. These approaches involve 1.Investing in two core pillars: Agriculture and social protection
2.Bring in new players
3.Adopt a country-led and bottom-up approach
4.Design policies using evidence and experiments
5.“Walk the Walk

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Originally posted at : International Food Policy Research Institute

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Themes: Emergency, general, Household Food Security and community nutrition, general, Micronutrients, general, Nutrition and food systems, general, Nutrition planning, policy and programme, general, Undernutrition, general, Dietary diversity, Food and nutrition policies and strategies, Food chain, food production and processing, Food composition and products, Food Security and Livelihoods , Rural nutrition, Rural nutrition, Stunting