investing in agricultural R&D can result in more food being produced more efficiently, pushing down prices while reducing the number of malnourished.

Subsidization of small farms typically delivers fairly low benefits for society.

Second, the paper calls for investment by national agricultural research systems.

fight disease, provide access to clean water, and get every boy and every girl in school.

The 12 chapters that follow are devoted to explaining the research underpinning the 12 solutions.

The economic gains are also something to marvel at. Achieving $1.1 trillion in economic benefits split across the population of the poorer half of the world

“Promises, Promises,” gives you the background and explains how we got here. It describes how the world has previously tried to improve yet often failed. It takes you through the quite successful and targeted Millennium Development Goals and contrasts this with the current Sustainable Development Goals, which promise everything to everyone but

They set out targets that almost everyone in the world would agree are priorities: To reduce poverty and hunger,

There are two ways to achieve this,