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Ending Hunger

29 Mar 2017

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) joined forces to estimate what it would cost to end hunger, and the contribution that donors need to make. [...] The model computes the optimal allocation of spending 84 per cent of donor spending in the first three categories, for each country, in order Sources: Authors’ computation based on The Brookings Institute – to increase household calories consumption above the Ending Rural Hunger dataset minimal level of dietary energy requirements.3 Indeed, when the calorie value of the household food basket is ab [...] Balance Income Households Figure 3. A dynamic model structure targeting hungry households and triggering private savings and investments Calculating the Donor Share Our model determines the total additional expenditures required for each country annually and the split between the country share and the donor share. [...] The countries were selected because of the availability and reliability of data, the diversity of Billion socioeconomic and agricultural situations, and the relevance to donors. [...] The targeting of interventions should thus be improved: within countries, by selecting the most appropriate interventions for each situation, but also between countries since the intensity of the efforts and the needs of external support vary greatly.
food security health agriculture aid politics economics food economy poverty taxation gross domestic product fao malnutrition diet economic growth hunger investments economic model economic sector undernourishment taxes sdg reducing poverty economy, business and finance food and agriculture organization
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16
Published in
Winnipeg, MN, CA

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