Investing in agriculture for a better future / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Series:

State of food and agriculture, 0081-4539 ; 2012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Statistics.

Food supply.

Agriculture--Statistics.

Agriculture.

Sustainable agriculture--Planning.

Sustainable agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Place of Publication:

Rome : Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Investing in agriculture is essential for reducing hunger and promoting sustainable agricultural production. Those parts of the world where agricultural capital per worker and public investments in agriculture have stagnated are the epicentres of poverty and hunger today. Demand growth over the coming decades will place increasing pressure on the natural resource base. Eradicating hunger sustainably will require a significant increase in agricultural investments, but also an improvement in their effectiveness. Farmers are the largest investors in developing country agriculture and must be central to any strategy for increasing investment in the sector, but if they are to invest more in agriculture they need a favourable climate for agricultural investment based on economic incentives and an enabling environment. Governments also have a special responsibility to help smallholders overcome the constraints they face in expanding their productive assets and to ensure that large-scale investments in agriculture are socially beneficial and environmentally sustainable. Government investment in agriculture is a crucial component of providing an enabling environment for private investments in the sector. Governments need to channel scarce public funds towards the provision of essential public goods with high economic and social returns.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations and acronyms""; ""Executive summary""; ""Part 1 Investing in agriculture for a better future""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. A gricultural investment: patterns and trends""; ""3. F ostering farmers� investment in agriculture""; ""4. Promoting equitable and efficient private investment in agriculture""; ""5. C hannelling public investment towards higher returns""; ""6. A policy framework for better investment in agriculture""; ""Part II World food and agriculture in review""; ""Part III Statistical annex""

""Notes on the annex tables""""References""; ""Special chapters of""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 10, 2014).

OCLC:

923762801