ABSTRACT
Policy Synthesis........................................................... 659 27.2.1 Setting .............................................................. 660 27.2.2 Food Security Synthesis.................................. 663
27.3 The Standard Model ................................................... 666 27.3.1 Public Functions Required for Economic
Progress and Food Security............................ 667 27.3.1.1 Public Administration....................... 667 27.3.1.2 Sound Macroeconomic Policies ......... 668 27.3.1.3 Liberal Trade Policy.......................... 668 27.3.1.4 Infrastructure Investment................ 668 27.3.1.5 Public Services .................................. 669 27.3.1.6 Environment ...................................... 669
27.3.1.7 Food and Income Safety Net ............ 669 27.3.2 Sequencing Development................................ 670 27.3.3 Economic Growth and the Environment....... 671
27.4 Agricultural Practices for Food and Environmental Security ........................................................................ 672
27.5 Conclusions .................................................................. 674 References............................................................................. 676
27.1 INTRODUCTION
The three components of the conference title, Climate Change, Carbon Dynamics, and World Food Security (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June 10-11, 2003) are interrelated. This chapter makes a case that careful public policy is required to simultaneously address global warming (including carbon dynamics) and global food insecurity, which are two major problems of our time.
