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Global Food Policy Reports 2011

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
agriculture
capacity development
climate change
food security
natural disasters
sustainable land management
The 2011 Global Food Policy Report is a new annual IFPRI publication that provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, national, and local levels. It highlights important developments and events in food policy that occurred in 2011, discusses lessons learned, offers policy recommendations, presents IFPRI’s food policy tools and indicators, and takes a look forward into 2012. The Report reflects perspectives from across the globe.
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Greening the Economy with Agriculture

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
agriculture
environment
food security
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), through Resolution 64/236 of 24 December 2009, decided to organize the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3 to 6 June 2012 (UNCSD, also referred to as Rio+20). The two main stated themes decided by the UNGA for UNCSD are: a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication; and the institutional framework for sustainable development. The preparatory process foresees three sessions of the preparatory Committee and three inter-sessional meetings.
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Land Rights and Agricultural Productivity

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural land management
agriculture
farming systems
food security
gender equity in access to land
property rights
rural population
tenure security
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
women
Property rights to land represent the key institutional asset on which rural people build their livelihoods. In fact, in many countries, landlessness is the best predictor of poverty. The nature of farmers’ property rights to land substantially impacts their willingness and ability to adopt productivity-enhancing inputs and investments.
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Do discriminatory social institutions matter for food security?

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural land management
capacity development
food security
gender equity in access to land
rural areas
rural development
women
In view of the 2012 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s thematic focus on rural women’s empowerment, the gender team at the Development Centre has launched an issues paper, “Do discriminatory social institutions matter for food security?”.
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Women’s Rights and the Right to Food

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agriculture
farmers
food security
gender equity in access to land
land access
tenure security
women
In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council in accordance with Council resolution 13/4, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food discusses the threats to women's right to food, identifying the areas that demand the most urgent attention. The report examines successively the obstacles women face in access to employment, social protection and the productive resources needed for food production, food processing and value chain development.
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Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security

Manuals & Guidelines
January, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
VGGT
food security
climate change
fisheries
land use
land
research
Tackling the issue of land and resource tenure is one of the prerequisites for mechanisms such as REDD+ to have positive impacts not only on reducing emissions from the forestry sector but also in reducing poverty and achieving food security. These new guidelines by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) outline principles and practices that governments can refer to when making laws and administering land, fisheries and forests rights.
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Strategies for Combating Climate Change in Drylands Agriculture

Reports & Research
November, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
farming systems
food security
land
poverty
Synthesis of dialogues and evidence presented at the International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands, Doha, Qatar, November, 2012
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Zero Net Land Degradation: A New Sustainable Development Goal for Rio+ 20

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
poverty
food security
desertification
land degradation
land productivity
land restoration
land
women
This report suggests that a new and explicit goal of sustainable development to be agreed as a result of Rio+20 should be the reduction of the rate of land degradation to achieve land degradation neutrality, which we refer to as “Zero Net Land Degradation” or ZNLD.