LAUNCH: 2017 Global Food Policy Report MAR 23, 2017 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT Vimlendra Sharan, Director, Liaison office for North America of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

1. IFPRI GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT 2017
“PERSPECTIVES ON FOOD & NUTRITION SECURITY: THE –
RURAL-URBAN CONTINUUM”
Vimlendra Sharan, Director
FAO Liaison Office for North America

3. “THE ONLY THING THAT IS
CONSTANT IS CHANGE.”
- Heraclitus

4. GROWTH IN GLOBAL AND RURAL POPULATION TO 2050

5. URBANIZATION TRENDS, BY REGIONS

6. SLUMDOG “BILLIONAIRE”

7. WATER WATER EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

8. DOWN IN THE DUMPS

9. YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

10. THE GAPS
• Understanding Urban Hunger & Malnutrition
• Data, Research and Information
• Policy Coherence
• Implementation Strategies

11. The broken
Link

12. FOOD FROM SMALL FARMS TO BIG CITIES
Production Storage and Processing Distribution and
Transport
Retailing and promotion Consumption
Smallholders,
agricultural laborers,
commodity producers
Packers, millers, traders,
refiners
Importers, exporters,
brokers, wholesalers
Informal retailers, supermarkets, restaurants, fast-
food companies
Household
RURAL-URBAN CONTINUUM
Very-rural Rural Small towns Intermediate cities Peri-urban Very -urban
FOOD- SECTOR FLOWS
SUPPLY CHAIN ACTIVITIES AND ACTORS
Food and agricultural products. Natural resources. Finance and insurance.
Inputs (e.g., seeds, equipment). Labor and remittances. Information. Waste.

13. FAO’s RESPONSE
• Facilitate, promote & support policy dialogue – global, regional &
country
• Assemble, analyse, monitor and improve access to data & info
• Advise & support capacity development
• Advocate and Communicate

14. FOOD FOR THOUGHT
There is more fruit in a rich man’s shampoo than a
poor man’s bowl

15. Thank you