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Published 2000 by:

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Author: United Nations

The Comprehensive Framework for Action (CFA)

The High-Level Task Force (HLTF) on the Global Food Security Crisis was established in April 2008 and is led by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon. The HLTF has drafted the Comprehensive Framework for Action, or CFA, representing consensus of the UN system and the Bretton Woods institutions and other relevant international organisations on how to respond to the global food crisis in a coherent and coordinated manner.

The CFA aims to bridge the divide between immediate humanitarian needs and development assistance. It does not seek to prescribe specific policies and activities but provides a range of options. The CFA is not a funding document but seeks to galvanise country level responses that need to be context and location specific.

The CFA proposes a twin-track approach, meeting the immediate needs and building longer-term resilience.

Meeting the immediate needs of vulnerable populations:

Emergency food assistance, nutrition interventions and safety nets enhanced and made more accessible. Smallholder farmer food production boosted. Trade and tax policy adjusted. Macro-economic implications managed.

Building longe …

Source: http://www.un.org/issues/food/taskforce/

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Published 2008 by:

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Author: High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis

The SC of the UN presents fresh contributions and commitments towards the MDGs that could amount to US$ 16 billion. This includes 0 billion for agricultural productivity and 1.6 billion for food security through the "purchase for progress" initiative.

More information is available on: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2008highlevel/index.shtml

Source: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2008highlevel/sgstatement.shtml

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Published 2008 by:

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In June 2008, the MDG Steering Group presents recommendations towards achieving the MDGs in Africa. The group gives six agricultural and food security recommendations towards MDG 1.

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Published 2008 by:

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Author: MDG Africa Steering Group

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Published 2008 by:

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Author: François Bourguignon, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Stefan Dercon, Antonio Estache, Jan Willem Gunning, Ravi Kanbur, Stephan Klasen, Simon Maxwell, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Amedeo Spadaro

Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,18-22 March 2002.

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Published 2002 by:

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Author: UN General Assembly

This publication takes a fresh look at the important contribution of agriculture to pro-poor growth. After two decades of decline, investments in agriculture are now on the rise. This major reversal in national policies as well as donor programmes reflects an increased awareness of the vital contribution of agriculture to pro-poor growth and the stark reality that 75% of the world’s poor live in rural areas. A positive process of economic transformation and diversification of both livelihoods and national economies is the key to sustained poverty reduction. Evidence shows that it is agricultural growth, through its leverage effects on the rest of the economy that enables poor countries, poor regions and ultimately poor households to take the first steps toward economic transformation. Agriculture has in many places connected broader economic growth and the rural poor, increasing their productivity and incomes.

This policy guidance for donors considers agriculture’s changing landscape and identifies a new agriculture agenda for enabling pro-poor growth. It recognises new challenges – such as HIV/AIDS, natural resource degradation, global competition, demographic change and migration � …

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Published 2006 by: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

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Author: Network on Poverty Reduction (POVNET), OECD DAC

More than 70 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas. The World Bank’s approach to rural development is holistic and multisectoral, focused on improving the wellbeing of rural people by building their productive, social, and environmental assets. The author of this article explores what this means in the longer term horizon of beyond 2015.

The proposition of this article is that key [...], in fact the foundation, will be sustained economic growth. First, without economic growth, incomes will not increase for anyone, including the poor. Although growth does not guarantee poverty reduction, poverty reduction is impossible without growth. What will fuel this growth? The starting point for many developing countries, given the concentration of poverty in rural areas and the share of agriculture in poor country GDP, must be rural development and growth in agricultural production.

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Published 2006 by:

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Author: Kevin Cleaver, in Entwicklung und Ländlicher Raum

This paper highlights the important role of agriculture in achieving the Millennium Development Goals:

Of the eight Millennium Development Goals, the first goal is the one whose attainment most clearly involves the agricultural sector: The poor around the globe are disproportionately farmers and herders, and, perversely, the hungry also most commonly find their livelihoods through agriculture. The impact that a dynamic agricultural sector will have on the attainment of the other seven goals is less direct. Nonetheless, important gains in these can be made through explicit attention to agriculture.

Policy action and increased investment in the critical arenas of sustainable agriculture productivity and food and nutrition security will be essential for responding effectively and responsibly to reach the Millennium Development Goals.

Source: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTARD/Resources/Ag_MDGs_Complete.pdf

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Published 2005 by: World Bank

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Author: World Bank, IFPRI

Global Monitoring focuses on how the world is doing in implementing the policies and actions for achieving the MDGs and related development outcomes. It is a framework for accountability in global development policy.

Source: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/GLOBALMONITORINGEXT/0,,pagePK:64

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Published 2005 by: World Bank

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