1st Edition

Global Food and Agricultural Institutions

By D. John Shaw Copyright 2009
272 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This pioneering text brings together for the first time the global institutions on the front line of the campaign against hunger and poverty. The institutions examined in this book – the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Bank, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural... Read more

1. Background  2. Origins  3. Mandate, governance and finance  4. Policies, programs and projects  5. Future directions 

Biography

D. John Shaw served for over thirty years with the United Nations World Food Programme at its headquarters in Rome, Italy, latterly as its Economic Adviser and Chief of WFP's Policy Affairs Service. He was also a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Bank. His work brought him into close contact with the policies and work of the global food and agricultural institutions covered in this book. Previously, from post-graduate studies in Agricultural Economic at Oxford University, he spent eight years as Senior Lecturer in Rural Economy at the University of Khartoum, Sudan and was a Fellow in Agricultural Economics and founder member of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He has also served as a consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat and is currently on the International Editorial Board of the journal Food Policy.