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Millions fed: Proven successes in agricultural development

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Online Location
https://www.ifpri.org/project/millions-fed#:~:text=%22Millions%20Fed%3A%20Proven%20Successes%20in,when%2C%20and%20why%20these%20interventions
Publication date
24/06/2009
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Books
Focus Region:
Global
Focus Topic:
Nutrition / Food Systems
Type of Risk:
Managerial & operational
Commodity:
Crops
Author
David Spielman, Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Organization
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Humanity has made enormous progress in the past 50 years toward eliminating hunger and malnutrition. Some five billion people–more than 80 percent of the world’s population–have enough food to live healthy, productive lives. Agricultural development has contributed significantly to these gains, while also fostering economic growth and poverty reduction in some of the world’s poorest countries.

This book examines how policies, programs, and investments in pro-poor agricultural development have helped to substantially reduce hunger across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The 20 success stories presented here provide both lessons and inspiration for continued efforts to eradicate hunger and malnutrition among the one billion people still facing this scourge.