Publication

This policy brief examines food security in the developing world and options available for its progress, including increasing access to food and higher agricultural production. The paper highlights the importance of food security in terms of alleviating poverty and disease, and as a prerequisite for economic development. The paper argues that although there has been some progress toward food security targets, numbers of hungry people have increased in Africa and elsewhere, particularly in the absence of serious international efforts to lift trade barriers and ensure greater investments in technologies and food security policies that target the poor.