Prioritizing Achievable Goals for Food Security in the Developing World

Sanjaya Rajaram; Maarten van Ginkel

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Prioritizing Achievable Goals for Food Security in the Developing World

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Prioritizing Achievable Goals for Food Security in the Developing World

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Many solutions have been proposed to address food security. We present here a prioritized set of actions achievable within the next 2-10 years. By taking a systems approach we follow the impact pathway backwards starting from the needs and desires of the end-users to eventually define the research agenda that will exactly address those targeted solutions with positive impacts. The following actions emerge as high-priority and achievable in the near future: new research tools to study food systems; dis-aggregated intra-household surveys to reveal within-family inequalities in food access; increased scientific consensus on climate change impacts in sub-Saharan Africa; rapid response measures to address sudden emergencies, such as capturing excess rainfall water; financial tools to enable rapid responses with recovery measures afterwards; consideration of restrictions that excess heat and humidity impose on human productivity; secure land ownership and tenure rights to encourage long-term agricultural investment; mechanization at all stages along the food system.

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Sanjaya Rajaram, Maarten Ginkel. 2021. "Prioritizing Achievable Goals for Food Security in the Developing World". Global Journal of Medical Research, Global Journal of Medical Research - L: Nutrition GJMR-L Volume 21 (GJMR Volume 21 Issue L1).

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