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Go to cartISBN: 9788130915319
Bind: Paperback
Year: 2011
Pages: 448
Size: 153 x 229 mm
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Published in India by: Viva Books
Exclusive Distributors: Viva Books
Sales Territory: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Reviews:
The only book currently available that is comprehensive enough to be able to be used as a text in this area.... very well crafted.
—Julie Poh Thurlow, Doody's Book Review
A boldly multidisciplinary approach that captures all the complexity of the causes of, and solutions to, hunger ... in an engaging and often witty manner that is simple but never simplistic.
—Mark G. Cohen, Hunger Notes
An important addition to the reading list for economic courses on the world food problem.
—Roland Herrmann, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
A fine book, which should be widely adopted as a text for world food courses.
—George J. Viksnins, Journal of Developing Areas
Description:
Why do millions of people in the less-developed countries go hungry, while there is an abundance of food in the world?
What can be done about it?
These are the issues explored in this accessible and comprehensive text. In addition to incorporating updated data throughout, this new edition includes:
• a comprehensive description and analysis of the 2008 food crisis
• an expanded discussion of the impact of using food crops to produce biofuels
• new case studies and recent examples to illustrate key points
• examples of successful and unsuccessful policy approaches
• reference to the latest research findings (with more than 150 new citations)
The result is the best available analysis of the current world food problem, as well as a provocative assessment of prospects for the future.
Target Audience:
Useful for economic courses on the world food problem.
Contents:
Introduction • Malnutrition: What Are The Facts • • Famines • Malnutrition Defined • Measuring Undernutrition • Impacts of Undernutrition • Undernutrition: Who, When, Where • Causes of Undernutrition • Economics: Supply and Demand • It's Not Food vs. Population • Income Distribution and Undernutrition • Other Factors Influencing Demand for Food • Agricultural Land and Water • Agricultural Production and the Environment • Increasing Yields Through Input Intensity • Increasing Yields Through New Technology • The Interaction Between Undernutrition and Health • Policy Approaches to Undernutrition • Philosophical Approaches to Undernutrition • Policies that Raise the Incomes of the Poor • Policies that Address the Demographic Causes of Undernutrition • Policies That Reduce the Price of Food Through Subsidized Consumption • Policies That Improve Access to Food: It's All About Distribution (Isn •t It •) • Policies That Raise Prices Paid to Farmers: Direct Subsidies and Elimination of Urban Bias • Policies That Reduce the Price of Food by Increasing Supply • World Food Supply and Demand for the Next Half-Century: Some Alternative Scenarios.
About the Authors:
Howard D. Leathers is associate professor of agricultural and resource economics.
The Late Phillips Foster was professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics at the University of Maryland, College Park.