IFPRI GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT 2017

“PERSPECTIVES ON FOOD & NUTRITION SECURITY: THE –RURAL-URBAN CONTINUUM”

Vimlendra Sharan, Director

FAO Liaison Office for North America

“THE ONLY THING THAT IS CONSTANT IS CHANGE.”

- Heraclitus

GROWTH IN GLOBAL AND RURAL POPULATION TO 2050

URBANIZATION TRENDS, BY REGIONS

SLUMDOG “BILLIONAIRE”

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

DOWN IN THE DUMPS

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

THE GAPS

• Understanding Urban Hunger & Malnutrition

• Data, Research and Information

• Policy Coherence

• Implementation Strategies

The broken

Link

FOOD FROM SMALL FARMS TO BIG CITIES

Production Storage and Processing Distribution and

Transport

Retailing and promotion Consumption

Smallholders,

agricultural laborers,

commodity producers

Packers, millers, traders,

refiners

Importers, exporters,

brokers, wholesalers

Informal retailers, supermarkets, restaurants, fast-

food companies

Household

RURAL-URBAN CONTINUUM

Very-rural Rural Small towns Intermediate cities Peri-urban Very -urban

FOOD- SECTOR FLOWS

SUPPLY CHAIN ACTIVITIES AND ACTORS

Food and agricultural products. Natural resources. Finance and insurance.

Inputs (e.g., seeds, equipment). Labor and remittances. Information. Waste.

FAO’s RESPONSE

• Facilitate, promote & support policy dialogue – global, regional & country

• Assemble, analyse, monitor and improve access to data & info

• Advise & support capacity development

• Advocate and Communicate

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

There is more fruit in a rich man’s shampoo than a poor man’s bowl

Thank you