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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: Different approaches to food security given global challenges of climate change, rising geopolitical tensions, and global trade fragmentation - Part II
The Latin America and Caribbean region has made considerable progress in poverty reduction and improving food security since COVID-19. However, the improvements have not been driven by inclusive growth. A characteristic feature of the LAC experience is that major disparities in economic performance, poverty reduction, and food security exist, e.g., among regions; between rural and urban areas; between genders.
A Book Review of “How Africa Works” by Joe Studwell
This Opinion was originally published on dev-front.org, by Hafez Ghanem, Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South. Joe Studwell has spent most of his career working on Asia and brings an interesting fresh perspective on the economics of Africa. This makes the book worth reading even if one disagrees with some conclusions.
Chips without Architecture: Aftermath of the Trump-Xi meeting
Spotlight During Trump’s visit to Beijing, Washington licensed H200 accelerators to several of China’s largest cloud and platform firms and re-casted US export policy as a sales mechanism rather than a denial regime. With talks stopping at the level of trade, the deeper questions of how frontier AI is built, tested, and exported were deferred, leaving the global rule-set to be set by default rather than by agreement.
Impacts of an Impending “Super” El-Niño on Global Supply Chains
The projected El Niño is likely to yield asymmetric impacts; with drought-like conditions reducing maize, rice, and wheat production in Asia and Australia and wet conditions boosting global soybean production in the Americas. El-Niño conditions hinder the clean energy transition by exacerbating heatwaves, draining hydrodams, and restricting access to mines due to flash floods.
Reframing the Just Transition in the Arab Region: Food, Water, and the Foundations of Stability with Lessons from Lebanon
Just transition’ has become a global catchphrase in recent times, often framed as an orderly shift, which involves phasing down fossil fuels, scaling up renewables, and cushioning affected workers through social protection. In other words, it is about “just energy transition” to reduce emissions and mitigate the negative impacts of climate change through a cascading process.
The Food-Water-Energy Nexus in the MENA Region: The Case of Egypt
The Looming Water Crisis in the MENA Region The MENA region has long coped with the problem of water scarcity. However, climate change is transforming the problem into an existential threat as more disastrous weather events are anticipated in the coming years. Precipitation is becoming even more scarce and unpredictable, with higher evapotranspiration undermining agriculture and food and warmer temperatures increasing the spread and virulence of harmful pathogens.
Food Security and Agri-Food Policies in the New South
Millions are severely malnourished in a world where there is enough for all. Hunger and malnutrition stalk more than 3.1 billion people. Yet, widespread hunger in all its forms is a problem which has been largely solved at the macro level in today’s high-income, industrialized countries. Their “escape from hunger and premature death” is a fairly recent phenomenon. It began around 300 years ago, continued for most of the 20th century and is still ongoing today.
Perspectives on Hunger
Tune in to understand the motivators of food related insecurity, the historical roots of Western responses to global food insecurity and how policies can be built to encourage food stability around the world. According to the commonly recognised definition, which was stated in 1996 at the Food and Agriculture Organisation-hosted World Food Summit, food security is the guarantee that each person has constant access to food that is both affordable and safe in addition to being healthful.
Time for the EU to close its domestic ivory market?
The figures are depressing: each year, up to 20,000 African elephants are illegally killed for their ivory. Only daring action is likely to save this emblematic species from extinction in many parts of its range. The European Union must pull its weight in this fight. For more than a century, elephants have been killed so that their tusks can be used as combs, knife handles, hair pins, billiard balls, inlays, and other decorative items and curios.
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