Global food security governance: The Committee on world food security, comprehensive framework for action and the G8/G20

The Challenge of Food Security: International Policy and Regulatory Frameworks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 231-254

  Margulis, Matias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 84875654898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857939388.00025     Document Type: Chapter

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1. For an excellent historical overview, see John D. Shaw, World Food Security: A History since 1945 (Palgrave McMillan, 2007).
2. TheWorld Food Council is one of the few UN bodies to be abolished. It was dismantled in 1993.
3. UN member states committed themselves in 2000 'To halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and, by the same date, to halve the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water.' See United Nations General Assembly. United Nations Millennium Declaration: Declaration Adopted by the General Assembly 18 September 2000 (UN 2000), 5.
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14. Such commitments ranged from enabling a political, social and economic environment, designed to create the best conditions for the eradication of hunger, to sustainable food, agriculture, fisheries, forestry and rural development policies to ensure that food, agricultural trade and overall trade policies are conducive to fostering food security for all through a fair and market-oriented world trade system
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35. Group of 8, L'Aquila Joint Statement on Global Food Security: L'Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI), 1 July 2009 .
36. Author's analysis of data compiled by Sarah Cale and Zaria Shaw in 'G8 Conclusions on Food and Agriculture, 1975-2009', 11 November 2009, G8 Research Group, accessed 1 October 2011.
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44. The concept of policy coherence comes from policy studies. It is a loose concept that generally refers to the ability of multiple actors to achieve consistent and mutually supporting objectives in a particular policy issue.
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