Upload
shira
View
37
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Food and Governance. Duncan Green Ecumenical World Development Conference Swanwick October 2012. Or go forward into an Age of Development?. The Challenge: Slide back into an Age of Scarcity. The food system is failing. A billion hungry people - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
Food and Governance
Duncan GreenEcumenical World Development
ConferenceSwanwick
October 2012
The Challenge:
Slide back into an Age of Scarcity
Or go forward into an Age of Development?
The food system is failing
A billion hungry people 1.5 billion anaemic through iron deficiency Half a million kids go blind every year due
to lack of vitamin A
And at the same time 1.5 billion overweight adults (of which 0.5
billion obese)
Hunger rising since the mid 90s
Source: WFP
Framing: The Standard Response
Increased demand 50% by 2030 (IEA)
Energy
Water Increased demand
30% by 2030(IFPRI)
FoodIncreased demand
50% by 2030(FAO)
Climate Change
1. Can 9 billion people be fed equitably, healthily and sustainably?
2. Can we cope with the future demands on water?
3. Can we provide enough energy to supply the growing population coming out of poverty?
4. Can we mitigate and adapt to climate change?
5. Can we do all this in the context of redressing the decline in biodiversity and preserving ecosystems?Biodiversity
What’s missing from this picture?
Power: who decides? (Amartya Sen on famine)
Distribution: who benefits? Justice: what is fair? Which brings us to governance
Governance in the south: my guru
Ha-Joon Chang: lessons from 21 successful countries Need to ‘free policy imagination’ Role of the state
– Smallscale farmers are central (Vietnam)– Importance of land reform (Japan, Taiwan)– State-backed credit and insurance– Encourage organization (co-ops etc)– Stabilize prices (USA, Chile)
But delivery can be public, private or mixed (i.e. Different from industry)
To which, I would add Gender
– Gender equality would boost output by up to 10%
– land ownership (15-20% women)– Access to credit– extension services (5% aimed at women)– Reproductive health
Resilience– Adapting to climate change (rubber)– From tradition to science
The Power of Organization– Against land grabs and rip-offs– For better deals in markets (farmers want to
sell, not just grow)
Other missing pieces: Volatility and urbanization The Number of hungry people in cities is
rising. Our research (with IDS) shows– Food Price Volatility -> inequality– Having fun matters as well as eating
What do poor people need?– Jobs– Social protection (often informal)– Price stability– Women need help with extra pressure
Why Food Price Volatility matters
What about the rich countries? Production: Waste Consumption: is meat murder? Competition (biofuels, land grabs) R&D:
– Technology for whom? – Decelerating productivity growth
Aid to ag down in last 20 years from 20% to 7%
Aid and Trade
WTO lets rich countries off eg with subsidies (40 x aid)
Food security v self sufficiency– Panic buying and export bans, but what
about Yemen? Biofuels waste money and food Food aid system overstretched and clunky Policy advice often very free market
(ignoring lessons of history)
PROBLEM – more of the same, elites failing
a failing food system
disempoweringinequality
the age of crisis
planetaryboundarie
s
SOLUTION – the many working together
the new prosperity
a good food system
fair shares
valuing precious
resources