IFPRI’s 2012 Global Food Policy Report reviews major food policy developments like new sources of agricultural growth, the outcomes of Rio+20 and the progress toward a green economy, the move from attention to action on gender, the prospects for youth employment in agriculture in Africa, the evolution of the US and EU support for their […]
Déjà Vu in the Horn of Africa
In lowland areas of the Horn of Africa, droughts and floods are frequent events, but the scale of the 2011 food emergency was somewhat unusual. Why is the region seemingly more vulnerable now than it has been in the past? How can development efforts be improved to render the people who live and work in the Horn more resilient to the next emergency? The answers to these questions are complex.