ABSTRACT
Eugenia Muchnik (Chile) 1 began the discussions with comments on the paper by Pinstrup-Andersen and Pandya-Lorch. She noted that IFPRI is not alone in studying the outlook for global food security, or indeed in coming to the broad conclusion that, for the next decade or so, global demand will be met, but that regional deficits will continue to take place in sub-Saharan Africa and in South Asia, where food imports are likely to increase substantially. For the longer run, there is a wider range of views due to different appreciations of the constraints of resource availability, though, on balance, most views present rather positive prospects. She fully supported these judgments about food availability.
