tailieunhanh - Global Farming Systems Study: Challenges and Priorities to 2030 SYNTHESIS AND GLOBAL OVERVIEW

The Global Farming Systems Study was conducted by FAO under the overall coordination of S. Funes (Director, Rural Development Division) and the technical leadership of J. Dixon (Senior Officer, Farming Systems, Farm Management and Production Economics Service, Agricultural Support Systems Division) and A. Gulliver (Economist, Investment Centre Division).The Study benefited from the guidance of D. Forbes Watt (Director, Investment Centre Division), J. Monyo (Director, Agricultural Support Systems Division), D. Baker (Chief, Farm Management and Production Economics Service,AGS) and A. MacMillan (Principal Adviser, Project Advisory Unit,TCI) in FAO and of C. Csaki (Senior Advisor/Team Leader-Rural Strategy) and S. Barghouti (Research Advisor) of the Rural Development Department,World Bank. As part of this review, | Global Farming Systems Study: Challenges and Priorities to 2030 SYNTHESIS AND GLOBAL OVERVIEW J. Dixon,A. Gulliver and D. Gibbon The Global Farming Systems Study was conducted by FAO under the overall coordination of S. Funes (Director, Rural Development Division) and the technical leadership of J. Dixon (Senior Officer, Farming Systems, Farm Management and Production Economics Service, Agricultural Support Systems Division) and A. Gulliver (Economist, Investment Centre Division).The Study benefited from the guidance of D. Forbes Watt (Director, Investment Centre Division), J. Monyo (Director, Agricultural Support Systems Division), D. Baker (Chief, Farm Management and Production Economics Service, AGS) and A. MacMillan (Principal Adviser, Project Advisory Unit,TCI) in FAO and of C. Csaki (Senior Advisor/Team Leader-Rural Strategy) and S. Barghouti (Research Advisor) of the Rural Development Department,World Bank. © FAO 2001 ii Preface For more than a decade, the proportion of internation- sary to re-estimate and re-analyse a wide variety of ally supported public investment directed at agricul- data relating to system characteristics, including ture and the rural sector in developing countries has physical, social, economic, demographic and environ- been declining. In the year 2000, World Bank commit- mental parameters. This analysis provided the neces- ments to the rural sector reached their lowest ever sary quantitative underpinning for the central, quali- levels, measured as a proportion of their total lending tative, task of developing expert judgements on the portfolio. Moreover, this has occurred at a time when future evolution of farming systems and their devel- the process of globalisation is bringing about profound opmental priorities. In all, the study encompassed the changes in patterns of trade and investment, placing contributions of over 40 specialists in a range of disci- agricultural producers and rural communities, more plines, both within and .