Chapter 9 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS


Food Policy Taking Shape at the Local Level


regions and countries, which are discussed in this chapter. As 2011 opened, events in Tunisia ignited the “Arab Awakening” in North Africa and the Arab world, posing new challenges for food security in the region. To the south, Sub-Saharan Africa made progress on its continent-wide framework for raising agricultural growth to improve food security and reduce poverty. Tat region also pushed forward with efforts to increase agricultural productivity and incomes while pursuing economic transformation beyond agriculture. Terefore, although a food crisis struck the Horn of Africa, progress elsewhere belies the image of a continent mired in gloom. India, having already achieved economic growth and higher agricultural productivity, turned its atention to domestic food security. It responded to an extraordinary right-to-food movement by implementing the world’s largest antihunger program and revived other initiatives designed to overcome malnutrition, which remains high despite the country’s economic success.


A Food security at home was also the primary goal of China’s major 2011 food


policies and investments, which focused on water conservation and agricul- tural research and development. China also engaged in agricultural develop- ment abroad, particularly in Africa—though its engagement is smaller and of longer standing than oſten believed (see Box 12 in Chapter 8). Brazil has been even more proactive in increasing its role in the global food system. By success- fully expanding agricultural production, the country has solidified its position in


part from 2011’s global challenges and oppor- tunities for food policy, important developments with potentially wide repercussions took place in individual


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