RETHINKING TRAINING IN FOOD POLICY ANALYSIS - HOW RELEVANT IS IT TO POLICY REFORMS

This paper aims at providing some pointers for those involved in food and agricultural policy-analysis training in order to generate a dialo gue among them that may result in improved training programmes. The re levance of currently offered training courses to economic policy refor ms is discussed. The constraints and challenges faced by the organizer s of training courses in redesigning training courses to meet the cons tantly changing policy environment in developing countries are present ed. It is argued that there is a need for rethinking methods of traini ng in food and agricultural policy analysis to meet the changing needs of policy decision making in developing countries. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.