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Policy Process and Global Development
Lessons from Food System Reforms
- 1st Edition - November 15, 2029
- Editor: Suresh Babu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 5 8 0 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 6 7 4 - 8
Food Policy Process and Global Development: Lessons from Food System Reforms reviews the theories of policy making process in order to apply them in food, agriculture, and natur… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFood Policy Process and Global Development: Lessons from Food System Reforms reviews the theories of policy making process in order to apply them in food, agriculture, and natural resource sectors in developing countries.
Expert contributors review the analytical methods that have been employed by recent studies to explain various dimension of policy process. Based on a conceptual framework that brings a range of theories and models together for future research, authors of the chapters apply them to political and policy settings to provide real-world insights. The book addresses the reality that the application of theories of policy change depends on many factors including the nature of the policy, underlying institutions, political and macroeconomic policy making conditions, capacity of the policy actors and players and their ideological inclination.
This book focuses on the capacity of the policy making system to actively engage in debate and dialogues to deliver consistent policy outcomes to meet the development goals and provides systematic documentation of methods and strategies and their successful application.
- Presents food and agriculture-based case studies to provide insight into the policy processes of developing countries
- Provides insights into the attributes of effective and successful approaches to policy development
- Describes implementation of applied studies using analytical frameworks and tools that use the theories of policy process
Academic researchers and students in public policy development, particularly those with food security focus
- No. of pages: 380
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 15, 2029
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128025802
- eBook ISBN: 9780128026748
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Suresh Babu
Suresh C Babu is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Capacity Strengthening at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C. Before joining IFPRI in 1992 as a Research Fellow, Dr. Babu was a Research Economist at the Division of Nutritional Sciences, 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, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANR). He has been coordinator of IFPRI’s South Asia Initiative and Central Asia Program. His past research covers a range of developmental issues including nutrition economics and policy, economics of soil fertility, famine prevention, market integration, migration, pesticide pollution, groundwater depletion, and gender bias in development. He has published more than 18 books and monographs and 80 peer reviewed journal papers. He has been on the advisory board of World Agricultural Forum and a Coordinating Lead Author of Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He currently conducts research on Capacity Development including Economic Analysis of Extension and Advisory Services; Reforming of National agricultural 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, African Journal of Management, and African Journal of Food, Nutrition, and Development. Dr. Babu was educated at Agricultural Universities in Tamil Nadu, India (B.S. Agriculture; M.S. Agriculture) and at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (M.S. Economics and PhD Economics).
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Fellow and Head of Capacity Strengthening, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA