Documents et rapports

Future of Food : Building Stronger Food Systems in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Settings (anglais)

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals is impossible without addressing fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), especially as two thirds of the extreme poor are projected to live in such situations...

Future of Food : Harnessing Digital Technologies to Improve Food System Outcomes (anglais)

Digital technologies have significant potential to improve efficiency, equity, and environmental sustainability in the food system. A range of digital technologies are already leading to: better informed...

Male outmigration and women's work and empowerment in agriculture : the case of Nepal and Senegal (anglais)

Attention to the implications of rural outmigration is growing, but little evidence exists on its association with women in agriculture. Migration affects women’s work and empowerment mainly through the...

Future of Food : Maximizing Finance for Development in Agricultural Value Chains (anglais)

Current levels of investment in agricultural value chains are insufficient to achieve key development goals including ending poverty and hunger, boosting shared prosperity through more and better jobs...

Future of food : shaping the food system to deliver jobs (anglais)

Shaping the Food System to Deliver Jobs is the fourth paper in a series on The Future of Food. This paper focuses on how the food system can deliver jobs. It provides a framework for understanding the...

Future of food : shaping the global food system to deliver improved nutrition and health (anglais)

Despite significant progress the world continues to bear a triple burden of malnutrition. These three burdens are related, but distinctly different, problems: energy deficiencies (hunger), micronutrient...

Future of food : shaping a climate-smart global food system : El futuro de los alimentos : construyendo un sistema alimentario mundial climaticamente inteligente (espagnol)

Future of food : shaping a climate-smart global food system (anglais)

Ending poverty and hunger by 2030 : an agenda for the global food system (anglais)

This report was prepared for the “Future of Food” event held in Washington, DC, April 16, 2015. To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person...

Transmission of global food prices to domestic prices in developing countries : why it matters, how it works, and why it should be enhanced (anglais)

Transmission of international food prices to domestic prices is essential to pursue comparative-advantage-based, sustainable agricultural production, and to ensure domestic production responds to global...

Food security and conflict (anglais)

Lack of food has been the source of many past and recent conflicts. Food insecurity has clearly been a factor behind outbreaks of social unrest or worse, yet conflict also has induced notable instances...

Patterns of rainfall insurance participation in rural India (anglais)

Take-up of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered to smallholder farmers in rural India decreases with basis risk between insurance payouts and income fluctuations, increases with household wealth...

Statistical analysis of rainfall insurance payouts in southern India (anglais)

Using 40 years of historical rainfall data, this paper estimates a distribution for payouts on rainfall insurance policies offered to farmers in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India, in 2006. The authors...

Patterns of rainfall insurance participation in rural India (anglais)

This paper describes the contract design and institutional features of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered to smallholder farmers in rural India, and presents preliminary evidence on the determinants...