Marc Cohen is a Research Fellow in IFPRI's Food Consumption and Nutrition Division. His current research focuses on global and national institutions and policy processes related to food security and nutrition, global humanitarian aid policy, conflict and food security, post-crisis reconstruction, the right to adequate food, the impact of food aid on community empowerment, gender and rural services, and the effects of climate change and biofuel development on health and nutrition. Cohen, a U.S. citizen, joined IFPRI in 1998, and was previously Special Assistant to the Director General. From 1991 to 1997, he edited the annual world hunger report at Bread for the World (USA). He earned his B.A. in French at Carleton College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a professorial lecturer in international development at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

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• Governance and Policy Processes
• Risks and Emergencies
• Poverty, nutrition, and social protection

• Policy Processes in Food Security and Nutrition

• Ethiopia
• Haiti
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Southeast Asia
• East Africa
• Caribbean

• Analysing Macro-poverty Linkages: An Overview
  2005. Gunter, Bernhard; Cohen, Marc J.; and Lofgren, Hans. Development Policy Review 23(3): 243-265.
• Food Security: Underfed or Overfed?
  2005. Cohen, Marc J. In From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security: Exploring New Limits to Growth. Pirages, Dennis and Cousins, Ken, eds. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA.
• New Risks and Opportunities for Food Security: Scenario Analyses for 2015 and 2050
  2005. Von Braun, Joachim; Rosegrant, Mark W.; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul; Cohen, Marc J.; Cline, Sarah A.; Brown, Mary Ashby; Bos, Maria Soledad. IFPRI 2020 Discussion Paper No. 39.
• Breaking the Links Between Conflict and Hunger in Africa
  2004. Messer, Ellen and Cohen, Marc J. IFPRI 2020 Africa Conference Brief No. 10.
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• The World Agro-Food System in Relationship to Changes in Human Population Needs: Socioeconomic Aspects
  2004. Cohen, Marc J. In Bertoni, Giuseppe (ed.) L'Uomo e l'Agricultura: Quale Futuro? [Mankind and Agriculture: Which Future?]. Milan. Vita e Pensiero.
• The Human Right to Food, Economic Growth, and Development
  2003. Von Braun, Joachim and Cohen, Marc J. In The Right to Food and the Cost of Hunger. Arnaldi, Simone and Postiglione- Blommestein, Letizia, eds. Rubbettino. Soveria Mannelli, Italy.
• The Right to Adequate Food and Food Security
  2003. Cohen, Marc J. Statement at the Congressional Human Rights Caucus Members Briefing on World Hunger: Moving Toward Global Food Security. Washington, DC.
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• Achieving Sustainable Food Security for All by 2020
  2002. Pinstrup-Andersen, Per and Cohen, Marc J. Development Assistance Strategies in the 21st Century: Global and Regional Issues. Japan Bank for International Cooperation Institute Research Paper No. 16-1, pp. 57-153.
• 2020 Vision: The Prospects for Universal Food Security in the Next Two Decades
  2001. 42nd Annual International Studies Association Convention. Chicago, IL, USA. February 20-24, 2001.
• Conflict: A Cause and Effect of Hunger
  2001. Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J.; Marchione, Thomas. ECSP Report, (7):1-16.
  (PDF 528K)
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