Mon, 04/23/2012

IFPRI launched 2011 Global Food Policy Report, the first in a new annual series, at Washington DC today. In this new flagship publication, ReSAKSS is highlighted as a major knowledge management platform to “help decision makers address real-life questions” along with other IFPRI co-facilitated online networks.

“For example, Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support Systems in individual countries—which are being established with the technical support of the International Food Policy Research Institute and Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support Systems—are expected to improve analytical and review capacities for evidence-based agricultural policy planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. It is noteworthy that Programme implementation coincides with the continent’s agricultural growth recovery.”- Pushing for Progress on Agriculture in Africa, Tsitsi Makombe, IFPRI, P.83, Chapter 9 of 2011 Global Food Policy Report.

This one-of-a-kind report looks back the major food policy developments in 2011 at the global and national levels, highlights the ongoing challenges to global food security, and most notably, provides a series of recommendations for the international world to better response to the challenges.

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