Food Security and Nutrition

Food Security and Nutrition

This note provides guidance on how to ensure tan agricultural investment makes a positive contribution to local and national food security and nutrition. Investments can play a critical role by introducing technologies to increase productivity, by...

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Main Authors: UNCTAD, World Bank
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT
FOOD SECURITY
NUTRITION
OUTGROWERS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
LAND USE
RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
FOOD CROPS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/726941521091407053/Food-security-and-nutrition
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29486
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spelling okr-10986-294862021-05-25T10:54:34Z Food Security and Nutrition UNCTAD World Bank RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT FOOD SECURITY NUTRITION OUTGROWERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS LAND USE RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT FOOD CROPS This note provides guidance on how to ensure tan agricultural investment makes a positive contribution to local and national food security and nutrition. Investments can play a critical role by introducing technologies to increase productivity, by providing demonstration effects, by creating quality jobs, by catalyzing modernization of the sector, and by linking small-scale producers with global markets—all of which, in the right circumstances, contribute to food securityand nutrition. Yet, investments can have a negative impact and be detrimental to food security and nutrition, especially where investments reduce local access to land and water. The challenge for policymakers and investors is how to design policy and business models that maximize the positive benefits to food security and nutrition but minimize the associated risks. 2018-03-19T15:12:34Z 2018-03-19T15:12:34Z 2018-03 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/726941521091407053/Food-security-and-nutrition http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29486 English Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) Knowledge Into Action Note,no. 22; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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topic RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT
FOOD SECURITY
NUTRITION
OUTGROWERS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
LAND USE
RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
FOOD CROPS
spellingShingle RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT
FOOD SECURITY
NUTRITION
OUTGROWERS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
LAND USE
RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
FOOD CROPS
UNCTAD
World Bank
Food Security and Nutrition
relation Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) Knowledge Into Action Note,no. 22;
description This note provides guidance on how to ensure tan agricultural investment makes a positive contribution to local and national food security and nutrition. Investments can play a critical role by introducing technologies to increase productivity, by providing demonstration effects, by creating quality jobs, by catalyzing modernization of the sector, and by linking small-scale producers with global markets—all of which, in the right circumstances, contribute to food securityand nutrition. Yet, investments can have a negative impact and be detrimental to food security and nutrition, especially where investments reduce local access to land and water. The challenge for policymakers and investors is how to design policy and business models that maximize the positive benefits to food security and nutrition but minimize the associated risks.
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author UNCTAD
World Bank
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World Bank
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title Food Security and Nutrition
title_short Food Security and Nutrition
title_full Food Security and Nutrition
title_fullStr Food Security and Nutrition
title_full_unstemmed Food Security and Nutrition
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publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/726941521091407053/Food-security-and-nutrition
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29486
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