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Food security: vulnerability despite abundance (pdf 475kb)

This paper provides an overview of current thinking on food security and identifies the major global food security challenges making detailed recommendations for addressing these challenges.

A range of issues are covered including:
- Current thinking and debate on the state of global food security
- Controversies and knowledge gaps
- Key medium and long term food security challenges
- Global, regional and national capacity for tackling these challenges
- Scenarios and recommendations
- Recommendations on changes to multilateral institutions

A number of references and links to further resources on the topic of food security are also provided.

 

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