Food Security and Nutrition

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Personen und Körperschaften:	UNCTAD (VerfasserIn), World Bank (VerfasserIn)
Titel:	Food Security and Nutrition
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Unbestimmt
veröffentlicht:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Gesamtaufnahme:	Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) Knowledge Into Action Note,no. 22
Schlagwörter:	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS FOOD CROPS FOOD SECURITY LAND USE NUTRITION OUTGROWERS RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
Quelle:	Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen
Anmerkungen:	English

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Zusammenfassung:	This note provides guidance on how to ensure tan agricultural investment makes a positive contribution to local and national food security and nutrition. Investments can play a critical role by introducing technologies to increase productivity, by providing demonstration effects, by creating quality jobs, by catalyzing modernization of the sector, and by linking small-scale producers with global markets—all of which, in the right circumstances, contribute to food securityand nutrition. Yet, investments can have a negative impact and be detrimental to food security and nutrition, especially where investments reduce local access to land and water. The challenge for policymakers and investors is how to design policy and business models that maximize the positive benefits to food security and nutrition but minimize the associated risks
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource
Anmerkungen:	English