期刊名称：World Food Aid Needs and Availabilities. Food Security Assessment
出版年度：1997
卷号：9
页码：26-26
出版社：U. S. Department of Agriculture
摘要：Almost 1 billion people live in a state of food insecurity. The income earned by
them is only slightly more than 1 percent of world GDP. Even though the resources required
to feed these people adequately are small, their food deficit is persistent and difficult to solve.
Solutions must involve a radical restructuring of government away from interventionist policies
and towards being a facilitator of economic growth and development focusing on overcoming
market failures. Resources in support of agricultural research and development
(R&D) have been declining worldwide and are undermining the growth in productivity that
is required in order to have further declines in real agricultural prices. These lower prices
would be one important step towards improving food security by increasing purchasing
power of low-income households. Reducing the number of food insecure by half as recommended
by the World Food Summit requires serious commitments from both the world food
exporters as well as the food-insecure countries themselves.
Loading...
