The World Food Problem : Toward Understanding and Ending Undernutrition in the Developing World
Foster, Phillips, Leathers, Howard D.
Language: English
Published by Rienner Publishers, Lynne, 2017
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- Title
- The World Food Problem : Toward Understanding and Ending Undernutrition in the Developing World
- Author
- Foster, Phillips, Leathers, Howard D.
- Publisher
- Rienner Publishers, Lynne
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1626374511
- ISBN 13
- 9781626374515
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
- Item weight
- 1.46 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
CONTENTS:
- Introduction.
- THE FACTS ABOUT MALNUTRITION.
- Famines: The Historical Context.
- Defining Malnutrition.
- Measuring Undernutrition.
- Why Does It Matter?
- Who, When, Where?
- ADDRESSING CAUSES OF UNDERNUTRITION.
- Supply and Demand.
- It's Not Food vs. Population.
- The Problem of Income.
- Other Factors Influencing Demand.
- Issues of Agricultural Land and Water.
- Environmental Degradation and Climate Change.
- The Potential of Input Intensity.
- The Potential of New Technology.
- An Important Aside: The Question of Health.
- POLICY APPROACHES TO UNDERNUTRITION.
- Philosophical Approaches to Food Policy.
- Raising the Incomes of the Poor.
- Population Policy.
- Subsidizing Consumption.
- It's All About Distribution (Isn't It?).
- Raising Prices Paid to Farmers.
- Increasing Food Supply.
- ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS.
- The Future of World Food Supply and Demand.
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