2. PRINCIPLED POPULISM
What should donors do in a populist world?
Andrew Natsios made sense out of compassionate
conservatism (Jeffersonian democracy thru rural dev)
Principled Populism starts with Principled Realism
(Bolton). Economic Cooperation/BATNA.
Promote general welfare (infra of cooperation, drain the
swamp)
3. FOOD POLICY
Instruments: Productivity enhancing R&D/Infra shifts
out supply => Structural transformation through IFPRI
linkages.
Beware of multiple objectives. Sustainability:
Economy/nature + Dynamics
Food security: Welfare ⇧ => Wage/(food price) ⇧ . Not
extraneous targets (self-sufficiency)
Swamp creatures: grain parastatals and the quest for
homogeneity
Grain fundamentalism vs. nutrition