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Title | Food as the basis for development and security |
Subtitle | A strategy for Yemen |
Author |
Breisinger, Clemens Ecker, Olivier Funes, José Yu, Bingxin |
ORCID | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6955-0682 Breisinger, Clemens; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7549-2511 Ecker, Olivier; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-3224 Funes, Jose |
Year | 2010 |
Abstract | Yemen has been facing severe development challenges in recent years, but rapidly depleting oil and water resources combined with large population increases and a lack of job-creating growth are making a difficult situation even more complicated. In order to provide opportunities for Yemenis to escape the current situation of widespread poverty and food insecurity, the Government of the Republic of Yemen, under the leadership of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, has developed a strategy to help all Yemeni people gain access to sufficient and nutritious foods in order to live active, productive, and healthy lives. The main objectives of the National Food Security Strategy, developed with the support of the International Food Policy Research Institute, are to (1) cut food insecurity by one-third by 2015, (2) reach moderate food security levels�meaning 90 percent of people have enough to eat year-round�by 2020, and (3) reduce child malnutrition by at least one percentage point per year. As a contribution to this process, the authors of this paper identify seven priority actions to help achieve these goals. 1. Leverage the fuel-subsidy reform process to promote food security. 2. Improve the business climate to foster pro-food-secure private investments in promising sectors. 3. Use qat reduction policies to enhance agricultural development. 4. Strengthen food security risk-management practices. 5. Implement the water-sector strategy decisively. 6. Target public investment to the food insecure more accurately and improve service provision, especially in rural areas. 7. Launch high-level awareness campaigns for family planning, healthy nutrition, and women�s empowerment. The government, civil society groups, and international partners need to quickly, decisively, and jointly implement these seven actions in order to fulfill the strategic goals. The implementation process is likely to be most effective if conducted in a transparent and inclusive manner with effective follow-up and appropriate monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. |
Series Name | IFPRI Discussion Paper |
Series Number | 1036 |
Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
Place of publication | Washington, D.C. |
Language | English |
Record Type | Discussion paper |
Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR | Non-PR |
Subject - country location |
YEMEN AFRICA |
Subject - keywords |
food security Poverty Economic development |
IFPRI Descriptors |
IFPRI1 GRP32 |
IFPRI Division | DSGD |
Access Rights | Open Access |
Display Notes | Effective January 2007, the Discussion Paper series within each division and the Director General's Office of IFPRI were merged into one IFPRI-wide Discussion Paper series. The new series begins with number 00689, reflecting the prior publication of 688 discussion papers within the dispersed series. The earlier series are available on IFPRI's website at http://www.ifpri.org/publications/results/taxonomy%3A468. IFPRI Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results. They have not been subject to formal external reviews managed by IFPRI�s Publications Review Committee but have been reviewed by at least one internal and/or external reviewer. They are circulated in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. |
LOC call number | IFPRIDP01036 |
Physical description | 62 pages |
Times cited-- Google Scholar | http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=17278630943145597952&as_sdt=20005&sciodt=0,9&hl=en |
RePEc Downloads | https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/ifprid/1036.html |
IFPRI Publication Ranking | Not ranked |
Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
CONTENTdm file name | 5488.cpd |
Date cataloged | 2018-04-27 |
Date modified | 2018-04-27 |
OCLC number | 861347701 |
CONTENTdm number | 5487 |
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Access Rights | Open Access |
CONTENTdm file name | 5420.pdfpage |
Date cataloged | 2017-08-08 |
Date modified | 2017-08-08 |
CONTENTdm number | 5419 |
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