The world food problem : toward ending undernutrition in the Third World
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder :
Lynne Rienners ,
c2009
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| Edition: | 4th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Famines
- Malnutrition defined
- Measuring undernutrition
- Impacts of undernutrition
- Undernutrition: who, when, where?
- 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
- 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: alternative scenarios