Food Policy for Developing Countries

Food Policy for Developing Countries
Title Food Policy for Developing Countries PDF eBook
Author Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 425
Release 2011-09-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0801463432

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Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries (also from Cornell), the 2001 World Food Prize laureate Per Pinstrup-Andersen and his colleague Derrill D. Watson II analyze international food policies and discuss how such policies can and must address the many complex challenges that lie ahead in view of continued poverty, globalization, climate change, food price volatility, natural resource degradation, demographic and dietary transitions, and increasing interests in local and organic food production. Food Policy for Developing Countries offers a "social entrepreneurship" approach to food policy analysis. Calling on a wide variety of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography, the authors show how all elements in the food system function together.

Food Policy for Developing Countries

Food Policy for Developing Countries
Title Food Policy for Developing Countries PDF eBook
Author Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 425
Release 2011-08-18
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0801448182

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A "social entrepreneurship" approach to food policy analysis that calls on a wide variety of disciplines (economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography).

Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries: Policies for health, nutrition, food consumption, and poverty

Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries: Policies for health, nutrition, food consumption, and poverty
Title Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries: Policies for health, nutrition, food consumption, and poverty PDF eBook
Author Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 276
Release 2009
Genre Agriculture
ISBN 9780801475542

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"The food problems now facing the world-scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity-are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions? The authors of the more than sixty international case studies contained in these books approach the food system with a multidisciplinary perspective. In three volumes that serve as valuable teaching tools, they call upon the wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography to create a holistic picture of the state of the world's food systems today. The authors focus in on specific cases from all corners of the globe to cover topics including drought and soil conservation; land allocation and cooperative marketing efforts; and food safety measures and advertising policies. In documenting past successes and failures, these case studies provide a valuable foundation for future research and efforts to create truly successful and sustainable food policy."--Pub. desc.

The Economics of Food Price Volatility

The Economics of Food Price Volatility
Title The Economics of Food Price Volatility PDF eBook
Author Jean-Paul Chavas
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 394
Release 2014-10-14
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 022612892X

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"The conference was organized by the three editors of this book and took place on August 15-16, 2012 in Seattle."--Preface.

What Price Food?

What Price Food?
Title What Price Food? PDF eBook
Author Paul Streeten
Publisher Springer
Pages 136
Release 2016-01-03
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1349189219

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The starting point of Paul Streeten's book is the dilemma, faced by policy makers in many developing countries: should the price of food be high, in order to stimulate production, or low, in order to prevent poor food buyers from starving? The author goes on to discuss the role of prices in the light of these and other objectives. 'It is the work of one of our wisest scholars on what I consider to be the key policy issue for economic development in the 1980s...this provocative essay will be required reading for anyone working on agricultural price policy.' C.Peter Timmer 'It provides solid and practical guidance to scholars and decision-makers. It is lucid, balanced and, above all, useful.' Robert Klitgaard 'Paul Streeten is well known for his gift of explaining the pros and cons of difficult policy issues in a clear, simple and realistic way, appealing to policy-makers, students and the wider development community, as well as to academic colleagues. This gift is fully displayed in his new book, and readers are bound to emerge with a better awareness of the conflicts and policy reforms which are involved.' H.W.Singer

Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries

Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries
Title Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries PDF eBook
Author Frank Ellis
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 376
Release 1992-01-30
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521395847

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This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses related to agricultural policy, agricultural economics, or rural development in developing countries.

Developing Sustainable Food Systems, Policies, and Securities

Developing Sustainable Food Systems, Policies, and Securities
Title Developing Sustainable Food Systems, Policies, and Securities PDF eBook
Author Abiodun Elijah Obayelu
Publisher
Pages
Release 2020
Genre Food security
ISBN 9781799826002

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"This book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on how to develop sustainable food systems, policies, and securities"--Provided by publisher".