Today the world is under the threat of a silent crisis--the crisis of underdevelopment. At the very center of concern about development is the concern of food, agriculture, and people. Combining these three elements into an objective that is fundamental to all else in development is the concept of sustainable food security. Achieving sustainable food security will require more than improving farm productivity and profitability. It requires that not only we look at the aggregate supply of food but also at income and land distribution, at household livelihoods and dietary needs, at food distribution and waste, at women's status and their opportunities, at fertility and population issues, and at the protection and regeneration of the resource base for food production--terrestrial, aquatic, and climatic. This report emphasizes that development work must include real participation of, and ownership by, the beneficiaries of development--entrepreneurs, women, nongovernmental organizations, and local communities. Moreover, linkages among researchers in industrial and developing countries can minimize the time lag between discovery and practical utilization.
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Speth, James Gustave
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Document Date
1993/10/25
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Document Type
Working Paper
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Report Number
17726
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Volume No
1
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1
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Disclosure Date
1993/10/25
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Towards sustainable food security
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Keywords
farmer;sustainable human development;Natural Resources;food as a weapon;Economic Rate of Retum;conservation of natural resources;international agricultural research center;natural resource base;food production;world food;community of nations;household and individual;majority of farmer;irrigation system management;conservation of biodiversity;household food security;loss of water;agricultural resource base;average real income;local rural institution;natural resource accounting;gross domestic product;problem solving process;poverty alleviation program;area under irrigation;series of meetings;natural resource use;Integrated Pest Management;future food security;participatory research methodology;agriculture and forestry;global trust fund;small scale irrigation;Science and Technology;education for girl;
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Speth, James Gustave
Towards sustainable food security (English). Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/620591468140363426/Towards-sustainable-food-security