“I have studied a lot for this test, but I didn’t do well. How can I do better next time?”
Published February 17, 2011
Marc F. Bellemare Posts
Published February 16, 2011
NPR’s Planet Money on Food Prices
For those of you who have an interest in food policy, the blog that accompanies NPR’s Planet Money has a nice post on food prices.
Published February 16, 2011
Can Small Farmers Feed the World?
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) posted a link on its Twitter feed yesterday to a document entitled “Smallholders Can Feed the World.”
Upon closer inspection, it turns out that the document really is mostly a marketing brochure for IFAD’s activities, but the document is not completely devoid of interest. Indeed, it discusses how smallholders can actually feed the world when they are integrated in agricultural value chains. It gives the example of Ahmad Abdelmunem Al-Far, an Egyptian who