Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries: Volume One Policies for Health, Nutrition, Food Consumption, and Poverty

Pinstrup-Andersen, Per and Fuzhi Cheng (Eds. )

ISBN 10: 0801475546 / ISBN 13: 9780801475542

Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2009

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0.8 x 10.9 x 8.5 Inches; 259 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries: Volume One Policies for Health, Nutrition, Food Consumption, and Poverty
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801475546
• ISBN 13: 9780801475542
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1.35 pounds
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Synopsis

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?

In three volumes that serve as valuable teaching tools and have been designed to complement the textbook Food Policy for Developing Countries by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II, 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.

Volume I of the Case Studies addresses policies related to health, nutrition, food consumption, and poverty.

About the Author

Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition, and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Copenhagen University. He is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate. His more than 400 publications include the coauthorship of Seeds of Contention. Fuzhi Cheng is a Commodity Trading Research Analyst at Noble Group based in Stamford, Connecticut.