Shaping globalization for poverty alleviation and food security
In its broadest sense, globalization can be seen as an inherent part of human experience. Since prehistoric times humans have been growing in number; interacting with other groups, peace-fully or not; building larger economic, social, and political organizations; discovering, using, and sometimes destroying the resources of the planet; and generating new knowledge and technologies. That process has led to the emergence of empires, with the ebb and flow over the centuries of explorers, crusaders, missionaries, merchants, and colonists. The powerful wave of globalization associated with modern ; CONTENTS: Brief 1. Introduction / Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Sherman Robinson -- Brief 2. The Nature of Disagreements / Ravi Kanbur -- Brief 3. Growth and Poverty / Manohar Sharma, Sam Morley, and Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla -- Brief 4. Trade and Food Security / Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Marcelle Thomas -- Brief 5. Nutrition / Julie Babinard and Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- Brief 6. High-Value Agriculture / Christopher Delgado, Nicholas Minot, and Nikolas Wada -- Brief 7. Food Safety and Food Quality / Laurian J. Unnevehr -- Brief 8. Technological Change / Peter B. R. Hazell -- Brief 9. Intellectual Property Rights and Agricultural R&D / Philip G. Pardey and Brian D. Wright -- Brief 10. Environment / Stanley Wood -- Brief 11. Democracy and Civil Society / Marzia Fontana and Yukitsugu Yanoma -- Brief 12. Conflict and Food Insecurity / Ellen Messer and Marc J. Cohen -- Brief 13. Governments and Public Policy / Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Sherman Robinson" ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; Poverty Reduction; 2020 ; DGO; TMD