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Explore key strategies and lessons to reduce hunger and extreme poverty, emphasizing agriculture-led growth, safety net programs, pro-poor institutions, and good governance. Learn how to design a coherent agenda focusing on hotspots, long-term solutions, and productivity enhancement.
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Reducing Hunger and Extreme Poverty: towards a coherent policy agenda Prabhu Pingali Director Agricultural and Development Economics Division (ESA)
Lessons in hunger & poverty reduction • Agriculture lead growth is critical • Safety net programs for meeting immediate hunger needs are crucial. • Pro-poor institutions are vital • Peace, stability and good governance are essential • Development assistance needs to be targeted better
Designing a coherent agenda for hunger and poverty reduction • Focus on the hotspots • Focus on the long term while responding to immediate needs • Enhance productivity of smallholder agriculture • Seek complementarities between trade and domestic policy • Increase effectiveness of Official Development Assistance
Designing a coherent agenda for hunger and poverty reduction • Ensure complementarities of public resources, domestic and international • Create en environment conductive to private investment • Make PRSPs more inclusive in addressing food security and rural development • Combine poverty reduction with increased provision of global public goods