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Lecture Slides

Readings:

United Nations SDGs Knowledge Platform. Go to the https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal2, familiarize yourself with SDG2 and its 8 targets.

United Nations. “Secretary-General’s Chair Summary and Statement of Action on the UN Food Systems Summit.” Statement, September 23, 2021. https://www.un.org/en/food-systems-summit/news/making-food-systems-work-people-planet-and-prosperity

FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO (2022). The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022: Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable. Rome, FAO. Read the 8-page executive summary (xvi to xxiii). Carefully examine and draw conclusions and implications of figures 2 and 3 and tables 1 and 2.  https://www.fao.org/3/cc0639en/cc0639en.pdf

Swinnen, Johan; and McDermott, John. 2020. COVID-19: Assessing impacts and policy responses for food and nutrition security. In COVID-19 and global food security, eds. Johan Swinnen and John McDermott. Introduction, Chapter 1, Pp. 8-12. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133762_01

EAT-Lancet Commission (2019). Healthy diets from sustainable food systems: Summary report.”  https://eatforum.org/content/uploads/2019/01/EAT-Lancet_Commission_Summary_Report.pdf

Denning, G. and J. Fanzo (2016) Chapter 1.1 Ten Forces Shaping the Global Food System. In Eggersdorfer M. et al Good Nutrition: Perspectives for the 21st Century. Basel, Karger, 2016, pp 19–30 (DOI:10.1159/000452372) https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/452372

Jayne, T.S. and Sanchez, P.A. (2021) Agricultural productivity must improve in sub-Saharan Africa.
Science 372 (6546), 1045-1047. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf5413

Mudombi-Rusinamhodzi, G. and Leonard Rusinamhodz (2022) Food sovereignty in sub-Saharan Africa: Reality, relevance, and practicality. Front. Agron., 07 October 2022. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fagro.2022.957011/full

Timmer, P. (2009) A World without Agriculture? The Historical Paradox of Agricultural Development.  American Enterprise Institute Development Policy Outlook 1 (2009). https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/01%20DPO%20May%202009g.pdf

Forthcoming

Denning, G. (2023). “Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet.” Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/universal-food-security/9780231197618