2018 Global Food Policy Report tracks impacts of antiglobalism and outlines key reforms

From
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Published on
23.03.18
Impact Area
Food security, Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Shanta Devarajan of the World Bank speaks at the Washington launch of the 2018 Global Food Policy Report. While globalization creates more jobs than it destroys, he said, the job losses are helping to fuel anti-globalization politics, creating an uncertain environment for food systems around the world. Photo by Jamed Falik/IFPRI

BY KATARLAH TAYLOR

The rise of anti-globalization politics and policies around the world poses threats to progress in efforts to end global hunger and malnutrition, according to IFPRI’s 2018 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR), released March 20 and featuring an in-depth look at antiglobalism and food systems. At the Washington, DC launch event, panelists discussed the report’s implications.

“Don’t forget, human history is a migration history,” IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan said. “Migration helped not only the migrants, who can improve their food and nutrition security, but also their families. Not only the hosting countries, but also the source or originating countries,” he said. The GFPR explores how these substantial economic and social benefits cut against the anti-immigrant rhetoric now heard in many countries. (Photo credit: Jamed Falik/IFPRI)

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