Publication: Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth and Bridging the Gap for Small-Family Farms: Interagency Report to the Mexican G20 Presidency
Date
2012-06-12
ISSN
Published
2012-06-12
Author(s)
Biodiversity International
CGIAR Consortium
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
International Fund for Agricultural Development
International Food Policy Research Institute
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations High Level Task Force on Global Food Security
World Food Programme
Abstract
Global agriculture will face multiple
challenges over the coming decades. It must produce more
food to feed an increasingly affluent and growing world
population that will demand a more diverse diet, contribute
to overall development and poverty alleviation in many
developing countries, confront increased competition for
alternative uses of finite land and water resources, adapt
to climate change, and contribute to preserving biodiversity
and restoring fragile ecosystems. Climate change will bring
higher average temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns,
and more frequent extreme events, multiplying the threats to
sustainable food security. Addressing these challenges
requires co-ordinated responses from the public and private
sectors and civil society that will need to be adapted to
the specific circumstances of different types of farmers in
countries at all levels of development. The recommendations
provided are broadly of two types: specific actions that can
contribute in some way to improving productivity growth or
sustainable resource use (whether building on existing
initiatives or suggesting new activities) and more general
proposals that may not be actionable as presented but that
serve to highlight areas for priority attention. This report
also invites G20 countries to engage in a medium, to
long-term, analysis-based peer review of policies fostering
sustainable productivity growth, which would identify
specific constraints and opportunities, beginning with their
own food and agriculture sectors. In addition to possible
benefits to participating countries, a peer review process
could contribute to the identification of best policies and
best policy packages to achieve the widely held aim of
sustainably improving productivity of the global food and
agriculture system. While such an initiative is proposed to
and for G20 countries, it could have much wider application
to interested countries.
Citation
“Biodiversity International; CGIAR Consortium; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; International Fund for Agricultural Development; International Food Policy Research Institute; Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; United Nations High Level Task Force on Global Food Security; World Food Programme; World Bank; World Trade Organization. 2012. Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth and Bridging the Gap for Small-Family Farms : Interagency Report to the Mexican G20 Presidency. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26780 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”