Shaping the Food System to Deliver Jobs is the fourth paper in a series on The Future of Food. This paper focuses on how the food system can deliver jobs.
... See More + It provides a framework for understanding the factors determining the number and quality of jobs in the food system, including inclusion of women and youth. It highlights a set of actions that countries can adopt, adapt, and apply to their own circumstances to enhance the food system’s contribution to jobs. The food system extends beyond farm production to include food storage, processing, distribution, transport, retailing, restaurants and other services. The paper finds that the food system employs the most people in many developing countries in both self and wage employment, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. In many countries the off-farm aspect of the food system accounts for a large share of the economy’s manufacturing and services sectors. While the employment share in farming tends to decline as per capita incomes rise, the share in food manufacturing and services tends to increase. Urbanization and per capita income growth offers significant new opportunities in non-cereal products and in new jobs in the food system beyond the farm.
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This report describes the activities, outputs, and results of a three year non-lending technical assistance program that allowed lessons from community-managed food and nutrition security initiatives in Andhra Pradesh and the rest of India to be incorporated in low income states of India, particularly Bihar in Eastern India.
... See More + This report also describes how aspects of food security and nutrition can be embedded in rural livelihood programs being implemented throughout the country and especially in low income states in Eastern and Central India. These programs target the 250 million poorest households through social and economic empowerment of women through self-managed self-help groups and federations. The report is organized into nine sections: the first section is on context; the second on objective and key outputs; the third on technical assistance and outputs; the fourth on technical assistance for integrating health, nutrition, and sanitation; the fifth on knowledge products; the sixth on food production, productivity, availability, and affordability; the seventh on knowledge dissemination and events; the eighth on outcomes of the South Asia food and nutrition security initiative (SAFANSI) supported non-lending technical assistance, knowledge, and learning programs and the ninth on dissemination. In addition, there are four annexures, the first a table of malnutrition in states of India; the second on financial statements; the third on deliverables; and the fourth the result framework.
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This report describes the activities, outputs and results of a three year non-lending technical assistance program that allowed lessons from community-managed food and nutrition security initiatives in Andhra Pradesh and the rest of India to be incorporated in low income states of India, particularly Bihar in Eastern India.
... See More + This report also describes how aspects of food security and nutrition can be embedded in rural livelihood programs being implemented throughout the country and especially in low income states in Eastern and Central India. These programs target the 250 million poorest households through social and economic empowerment of women through self-managed self-help groups and federations. These programs are supported primarily by local community resources, the government and commercial banks. The World Bank is supporting the Indian government and 16 Indian state governments to implement these programs. The report is organized into nine sections, the first section is on context; the second on objective and key outputs; the third on technical assistance and outputs; the fourth on technical assistance for integrating health, nutrition and sanitation; the fifth on knowledge products; the sixth on food production, productivity, availability and affordability; the seventh on knowledge dissemination and events; the eighth on outcomes of The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) supported non-lending technical assistance, knowledge and learning programs and the ninth on dissemination. In addition, there are four annexures, the first a table of malnutrition in states of India; the second on financial statements; the third on deliverables and the fourth the result framework.
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