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Building Resilience for Global Food Security

Explore the importance of resilience in addressing food insecurity, with a focus on theory, measurement, and evaluating intervention options. Learn how private-public partnerships play a crucial role in building resilience. Presentation from Cornell University on Food Safety, Security, and Defense. Forward progress is achievable with carefully considered interventions.

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Building Resilience for Global Food Security

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  1. Building Resilience for Global Food Security Christopher B. BarrettCharles H. Dyson School, Cornell UniversityPresentation at the Cornell University/Institute on Science for Global Policy conference on Food Safety, Security, and Defense: Focus on Food and the EnvironmentOctober 6, 2014

  2. Motivation Why development and humanitarian communities’ current fascination with “resilience”? • Risk increasing in frequency/intensity • Recurring crises in chronically food insecure regions make it difficult to reconcile humanitarian response to disasters with longer-term development efforts. • Concerns that food insecurity affects national security (esp. since 2008)

  3. Motivation “Resilience” has become a buzzword within the development/humanitarian communities … policy is out ahead of the science ! 

  4. Theory and Measurement New innovations in resilience theory/measurement resilience = a tolerably low probability over time of enduring unacceptable living standards relate directly to food security/poverty traps and enable rigorous evaluation of interventions. Barrett and Constas, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014.

  5. Evaluating Options Private-public partnerships central to many options to build resilience. Must evaluate the many options carefully! Example: Index insurance for herders in East Africa (e.g., Index-Based Livestock Insurance) vs. HSNP See http://livestockinsurance.wordpress.com/ for videos/details

  6. Thank you Forward progress is possible with carefully evaluated interventions to build resilience. Thank you for your time, interest and comments!

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