The State of Food and Agriculture, 1997

Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division

The State of Food and Agriculture, 1997

The agroprocessing industry and economic development

Year of publication 1997

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 285

Author Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division

Product type Book (series)

Series title The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA)

Series number 814539

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) The State of Food and Agriculture this year reports that numerous concrete initiatives have recently been taken or strengthened to address the various dimensions of food security, including through formulating and coordinating the implementation of integrated food security programmes. We also welcome the fact that, after earlier positive signs, many poor countries have seen their prospects for food security further improve because of their success in creating a policy environment conducive to su stained economic and agricultural growth. Although economic and food security problems remain serious in Africa, the improvement made in much of the region over the past two years is most heartening in this respect. Furthermore, a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia and the Pacific appear to have entered a phase of solidly based growth, sustained in many cases by a good performance of the agricultural sector. The fact that many economies that are crucially dependent o n commodity exports have shown resilience to the weakening prices of several of these commodities since 1994-95 has been a significant and encouraging feature of the past year. This year’s special chapter of The State of Food and Agriculture focuses on the agroprocessing industry and its symbiotic links with economic and agricultural and rural development.

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