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Food Consumption and Nutrition
M.J.Cohen@cgiar.org

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

• Conflict, Food Insecurity, and Globalization
  Messer, Ellen and Cohen, Marc J. In Globalization of food and agriculture and the poor, ed. Joachim von Braun, and Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla. Chapter 9. Pp. 299-336. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
• Impact of climate change and bioenergy on nutrition
  2008. Cohen, Marc J.; Tirado, Cristina; Aberman, Noora-Lisa; Thompson, Brian. Washington, D.C. / Rome, Italy: International Food Policy Research Institute ( IFPRI) / Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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• Renegotiating the food aid convention : Background, context, and issues
  2008. Hoddinott, John; Cohen, Marc J.; Barrett, Christopher B. Global Governance 14(3): 283-304.
• Strengthening Capacity for Participatory Development
  2008. Cohen, Marc J.; Garrett, James L.; Rocchigiani, Mariagrazia. Linking Research and Action: Strengthening food assistance and food policy research -- IFPRI/WFP brief Washington, D.C. / Rome: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) / World Food Programme (WFP)
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• Public access to seeds and the human right to adequate food
  2007. Cohen, Marc J.; Ramanna, A. In Global obligations for the human right to food, ed. George Kent. Pp. 161-190. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
  
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• Food aid : Exploring the challenges
  Report on an International Conference, May 2-4, 2007 in Berlin, Germany 2007. Cohen, Marc J., ed.; Weingärten, L., ed. Bonn: Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
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• Food security : Vulnerability despite abundance 2007
  Cohen, Marc J. Coping with Crisis Working Paper Series July. New York: International Peace Academy.
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• 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.
• Analysing Macro-poverty Linkages: An Overview
  2005. Gunter, Bernhard; Cohen, Marc J.; and Lofgren, Hans. Development Policy Review 23(3): 243-265.
• Food policy: underfed or overfed?
  2005. Cohen, Marc J. Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation. In Pirages, Dennis and Ken Cousins (eds.) 2005. From resource scarcity to ecological security: exploring new limits to growth. Chapter 5. Pp. 83-103. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.