Thought for Food: Strengthening Global Governance of Food Security

Robert Vos

CDP Background Papers from United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs

Abstract: here are significant threats to sustainable food security and nutrition in the long-run, including demographic and environmental pressures and changing business practices in agriculture with the emergence of global values chains. The global nature and public good aspects of the challenges require coordinated responses and urgent improvement of the global governance of food security. This paper argues for the strengthening of the Committee on World Food Security to ensure greater coherence in the global approach to food security and the multilateral trade, financial and environmental regimes.

Keywords: agriculture; food security; nutrition; global public goods; global governance; food safety; policy coordination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F53 F55 O13 O19 Q15 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2015-11
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