The New Global Context for Agricultural Research - Implications for Policy

Presentation on the world food situation to the CGIAR meeting in October-November 1986 by the Director of IFPRI, John Mellor. This was the second such, following a recommendation by the first external review of IFPRI that the Institute's director should make a presentation to the CGIAR every other year.Mellor's remarks focused on the global food supply/demand balance, an area which linked the interests of developed and developing countries and had important implications for foreign assistance and agricultural research policy.