Competitiveness of Global Agriculture

Dr. Babu was a Research Economist at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Between 1989 and 1994 he spent 5 years in Malawi, Southern Africa on various capacities. He was Senior Food Policy Advisor to the Malawi Ministry of Agriculture on developing a national level Food and Nutrition Information System; an Evaluation Economist for the UNICEF-Malawi working on designing food and nutrition intervention programs; Coordinator of UNICEF/IFPRI food security program in Malawi; and a Senior Lecturer at the Bunda College of Agriculture, Malawi developing and teaching computer-based policy-oriented post graduate courses.He has been coordinator of IFPRI’s South Asia Initiative and Central Asia Program. He has been on the advisory board of World Agricultural Forum. He was a Coordinating Lead Author of Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He currently conducts research on issues related to Capacity Development including Economic Analysis of Extension and Advisory Services; Reorganization of National Research Systems; Understanding Policy Process; and Institutional Innovations for Agricultural Transformation. He is or has been a Visiting as Honorary Professor of Indira Gandhi National Open University, India, American University, Washington DC, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, and Zhejiang University, China. He currently serves or has served on the editorial boards of the following journals – Food Security, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Agricultural Economics Research Review, African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Journal of Sustainable Development and African Journal of Food, Nutrition and Development.Dr. Attila Jambor is Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Holding a PhD in economics, his major research interests are agricultural policy and agri-food trade analysis. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in Newcastle University (UK) for 10 months, a junior consultant to the European Parliament on the future of rural development in the CAP post 2013 and to the FAO on the diversity of effects of EU membership on agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe. He was a junior professional to the World Bank in creating the Agricultural and Rural Development Strategy of Moldova and Romania. He has received numerous awards for teaching and research excellence in Hungary. His current field of research is the competitiveness of global agriculture and its implications for food security.

• Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Food security and global agricultural trade.- 3. Competitiveness: definitions, theories and measurement.- 4. Who feeds the world?: Global agricultural trade patterns.- 5. Regional challenges in ensuring food security.- 6. The competitiveness of global agriculture.- 7. Understanding the factors behind agricultural competitiveness.- 8. Strategies for increasing competitiveness of agriculture.- 9. Policy lessons for attaining food security through increased competitiveness in agriculture.- 10. Conclusions and implications for future research.